| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — "Log House" — ca. 1816 |
| | A Federal House later modified in the Greek-Revival style. Research currently being conducted to prepare building as an exhibition of Historical Restorations. — Map (db m51999) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — (Former) Atkins High School |
| | Named for prominent local African-American education pioneer, Dr. Simon Green Atkins, Atkins High School was designed by Harold Macklin in the Classical Revival style and constructed 1930-1931. Atkins was the first school in Winston-Salem built as a high school to serve Africans Americans. Constructed with the assistance of the Rosenwald Fund, a philanthropic organization devoted to building schools for African-Americans. Atkins marked the use of the Rosenwald funds for an urban high school in . . . — Map (db m52743) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — 1753 Great Philadelphia Wagon Road |
| | The most heavily traveled in Colonial America passed near here, linking areas from The Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid out on animal and Native American Trading & Warrior Paths. Indian treaties aming NY, PA, VA and the Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722 opened Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement along this road of the Piedmont. — Map (db m52540) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — 26th N.C. Regimental Band — 1862-1865 |
| | Organized in Salem, NC, March 1862, with members from local Moravian congregations. This volunteer Confederate band provided morale-building music for southern troops in many of the major campaigns during the War Between the States. The band was widely recognized as one of General Lee's favorites and served until captured in retreat from Petersburg, VA on April 5 1865. Imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD. The members were paroled in July 1865. — Map (db m52153) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — African-American West End Area |
| | The neighborhood formerly located on the site of the baseball stadium was a noteworthy African-American area. It was established on land originally owned by Nathaniel T. Watkins, a local merchant. By the early 1900s, the area functioned as part of the West End and was home to a growing number of working-class families. The men of the neighborhood worked primarily in the city's many factories, while women found domestic work nearby. Construction of Interstate 40 and Peters Creek Parkway . . . — Map (db m52152) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-41 — Bethabara |
| | First settlement by Moravians in North Carolina, 1753; known also as Old Town. Church erected 1788. Town is 1 mile N.E. — Map (db m51970) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Carver High School |
| | Since 1936, Carver High School has been a source of pride, accomplishment and enthusiasm for Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. It was the first high school to serve African-American students outside the Winston-Salem city limits, who otherwise would have had to pay tuition to attend Atkins High School. The school opened near the present site in 1936, with Edward Everette Hill as principal. By the end of the 1967-1937 school year, it was named in honor of George Washington Carver. The first . . . — Map (db m52750) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — City Hall |
| | Completed in 1926, City Hall has been the seat of Winston-Salem's government since its construction. An integral part of Winston-Salem's downtown streetscape, City Hall was designed by the local architectural firm of Northup and O'Brien. City Hall is Winston-Salem's only example of Renaissance Revival style civic architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. — Map (db m51721) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Colored Baptist Orphanage Home |
| | A significant feature of the Bellview neighborhood, the Colored Baptist Orphanage Home opened in 1905 and was the only African-American orphanage in North Carolina. About 1919, the organization moved from a nearby farm house to a new building on Clemmonsville Road. The boys dormitory was later built near the corner of Moravia and Burgandy Streets. Consisting of a 28-acre campus, the orphanage maintained a farm and sponsored a band. When city civic clubs took over the operation of the orphanage . . . — Map (db m63744) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — 6 — Community and Medical Gardens — (Reconstructions) — 1759 and 1761 |
| | The only known well-documented Colonial Community Garden and the earliest known well-documented Colonial Medical Garden in the United States. — Map (db m53102) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Daniel Boone Trail |
| |
In Memory of Trail Maker
Hunter and Pioneer
DANIEL BOONE
Who Hunted Fished and Fought
in the Streams and Forests of
this and Adjoining Counties During
the Middle of the 18th Century
---
This Monument is erected by the Booone Trail Highway Association
--- — Map (db m53726) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Daniel Boone Trail |
| |
Daniel Boone lived 18 miles S.W.
His Parents are buried 13 miles S.W.
--.--
Here Passes the Trace of the
Old Plank Road, The Fayetteville
and Western, Chartered 1848
--.--
This Memorail Erected by the Boone Trail Highway Assocation
— Map (db m53943) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Depot Street Graded School Site |
| | When built in 1887, the Depot Street Graded School was the largest and most important public school for African-Americans in North Carolina. Education pioneer, Dr. Simon Green Atkins, came to Winston as principal of the school in 1890. Under Atkins' leadership, the school expanded in 1894 and became home to Winston's first African-American high school in 1895. The Depot Street Graded School burned in the 1920s. — Map (db m63688) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Downtown North Historic District |
| | The Downtown North Historic District is an area of commercial buildings that developed during the early part of the 20th century. Located north of Winston-Salem's central business district, the district served as the working person's downtown, where farmers came to sell their tobacco and other products. The area tells the story of commercial enterprises that supported the everyday lives of tobacco farmers and workers. Downtown North provided goods needed by the working-class tobacco populace, . . . — Map (db m51973) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — First Official 4th of July Celebration in the United States |
| | Commemorating
The First Official
4th of July Celebration
In the United States
At Salem, North Carolina, 1783
* * *
This Plaque Unveiled In The
200th Anniversary Year
Of Winston-Salem
July 4, 1966 — Map (db m54485) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — 7 — First Village — (Reconstruction) — July 1754 |
| | The original frontier settlement of the 15 single brothers who arrived from Bethlehem, PA on November 17, 1753
They travelled on the nearby Great Philadelphia Wagon Road. — Map (db m53103) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Former Dividing Line Between Winston and Salem |
| | Former Dividing Line
Between
Winston and Salem
Towns Consolidated
May 13, 1913 — Map (db m54635) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-65 — Fraternity Church of the Brethren |
| | Oldest German Baptist (Dunker) congregation in North Carolina. Est. ca. 1775 near Muddy Creek, one mile south. — Map (db m51880) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-63 — Friedberg Church |
| | Moravian. Begun in 1759, organized in 1773; first church and school built in 1769. Third structure, 1825; located 1.6 mi. W. — Map (db m51881) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Gemeinhaus — 1788 |
| | The only German Colonial Church with attached living quarters remaining in the United States. Moravian Wachovia tract leader Frederic Marshall designed building. — Map (db m51998) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — George Black House and Brickyard |
| | This was the home and brickyard of the nationally-known brickmaker George H. Black from 1934 until his death in 1980 at the age of 101. Black, the son of former slaves, came Winston-Salem as a child. He worked for the Hedgecock and Hime Brickyard, which gave him a mud mill to use as firewood. Instead, he used it to start his own brickyard and established a reuptation for making traditional handmade bricks of quality and durability. Black made bricks for use in Winston-Salem's finest houses, in . . . — Map (db m52674) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — George Henry Black Memorial — Master Brickmaker — 1879-1980 |
| | Honoring his contribution to the architectural beauty of his community and historic sites throughout America. — Map (db m52675) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Happy Hill |
| | Happy Hill has played a prominent role in the life of Winston-Salem's African American community since the early years of the 19th century, when it was home to slaves on a farm serving the Moravian town of Salem. The first school for African-Americans was founded in the community in 1867, and in 1872. Moravians agreed to sell lots on the farm, many to African-Americans. By 1874, the name Happy Hill was used for the neighborhood, which grew steadily between 1880 and 1920. The city's first public . . . — Map (db m52814) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — 2 — Herman Buttner House — 1803 |
| | Distiller's house rebuilt from materials of the 1779 House and Distillery, which burned in 1802. Only Distiller's house in Forsyth County. — Map (db m53092) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Historic Bethabara Park 1753 — (Community Garden) |
| | Welcome to the Historic Bethabara Park Community Garden. Restored in 1990, this garden is the only well-documented colonial community garden in America. The original frontier garden of the Moravian settlers was established in 1754 to nourish the community that settled here in 1753. Gardeners today tend their individual plots as members of the garden community. Community gardeners provide their own seed, plants, and labor to raise crops for themselves and their families. — Map (db m54352) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Hotel Zinzendorf |
| | Opening in May 1892, the Hotel Zinzendorf was a resort hotel developed by the West End Hotel and Land Company. The hotel was a venture by local business leaders to add tourism to a booming industrial, and largely tobacco-based, economy. Designed by noted Boston architects Wheelwright and Have, the hotel was named for Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, patron of the Moravians who settled in what is now Forsyth County. The Hotel Zinzendorf was a monumental four-story Shingle-style wooden . . . — Map (db m51983) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — 3 — Krause-Butner Pottery Shop — 1782 |
| | The oldest brick house in Forsyth County. Built by Johannes Schaub, Jr., as a Home and Dyer Shop. Sold to Gottlob Krause for home and pottery in 1789. John Butner purchased Home and Pottery in 1802. — Map (db m53094) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Lloyd Presbyterian Church |
| | The congregation of Lloyd Presbyterian Church was formed in the 1870s as part of a national movement by Northern missionaries to establish African-American Presbyterian churches in the South. Lloyd Presbyterian Church's current building was constructed between 1900 and 1907. One of the earliest religious buildings in Winston-Salem, it is Forsyth County's only Carpenter Gothic style church. Throughout its long history, the church has taken a leadership role in the political and social . . . — Map (db m51974) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Maynard Field |
| | Operating from 1919 until the mid-1930's, Maynard Field was the first commercial airfield in North Carolina. The airfield was named for Lt. Belvin W. Maynard, a North Carolina native and pioneer aviator. In October 1919, the Winston-Salem Board of Trade leased thirty-five acres of land off Kernersville Road, and commenced preparing the field. On December 6, 1919, the field was dedicated, and Lt. Maynard was the first flyer to land on its runway. Completely modern in contrast to other airfields . . . — Map (db m52852) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-105 — N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs |
| | Volunteer service group promoted suffrage, education, and other social, cultural causes. Founded 1902 one-half mi. SE. — Map (db m51714) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-71 — Nissen Wagon Works |
| | Begun in 1834 by John Nissen. By 1919, fifty wagons a day were produced. Sold in 1925. Was located here. — Map (db m52203) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-83 — North Carolina School of the Arts |
| | Est. 1963; opened 1965. First state-supported school for performing arts in U.S. A campus of The University of North Carolina since 1971. — Map (db m54390) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Odd Fellows Cemetery |
| | The Odd Fellows Cemetery is believed to have started in 1911 by the Twin City Lodge and the Winston Star Lodge, both African-American fraternal organizations. The Odd Fellows Cemetery is one of Winston-Salem's oldest African-American graveyards outside the Salem area. It is, by far, the largest African-American cemetery dating from the early 20th century. An estimated 10,000 graves could be located in the cemetery. Based on internment dates, many of the individuals buried in Odd Fellows . . . — Map (db m52623) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Our Confederate Dead |
| |
[Front]
Erected by the
James B. Gordon Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy
October 1905
Winston-Salem, N.C.
[Back]
"Sleeping, but glorious,
Dead in Fame's portal,
Dead, but victorious,
Dead, but immortal!
They gave us great glory,
What more could they give?
They have left us a story,
A story to live!"
[Right]
In Camp on fame's eternal camping ground.
[Left]
As Southern soldiers of the war
of 1861-1865 they . . . — Map (db m55494) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Palisade Fort — 1756-1763 — (Reconstructed) |
| | The only French and Indian War Fort in the Southeast reconstructed on its original site. This five-sided palisade was built around the central part of the community for protection from Indian aggression. A second fort was located at the Mill Site on Mill Creek. Fortunately, the Indians never attacked Bethabara. — Map (db m52000) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-72 — R. J. Reynolds — 1850-1918 |
| | Founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. In 1875 built his first factory in Winston. Grave 1 block E. — Map (db m51716) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — R. J. Reynolds High School and Auditorium |
| | R. J. Reynolds High School and Auditorium were designed by Charles Barton Keen in the Neo-Classical Revival style and completed in 1923-1924. Made possible through the philanthropy of Katherine Smith Reynolds, wife of R. J. Reynolds, the complex is among the most significant high school and cultural facilities built in North Carolina during the first half of the 20th century. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. — Map (db m51984) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Reynolda Historic District |
| | The Reynolda Historic District was part of the country estate developed from 1912-1919 by Richard Joshua Reynolds and his wife, Katherine Smith Reynolds. Financed by the enormous wealth generated by Reynolds' tobacco industry, the estate was a farm community and the setting for Rynolda, the main house designed by architect Charles Barton Keen. Reynolda's garden's were designed by landscape architect Thomas W. Sears, and provided relaxation, food, and horticultural education. Today, the district . . . — Map (db m51370) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-54 — Reynolda House |
| | Built in 1917 by founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Dedicated 1965 as center for advancement of arts and higher education. — Map (db m31617) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Richard Joshua Reynolds — 1850 - 1918 |
| | In 1875 this young Virginian aged 24 rode into Winston in search of a town in which to build his first tobacco factory.
Through the generosity of the citizens of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County this memorial has been erected to honor a successful businessman and public benefactor. — Map (db m51717) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-38 — Robert B. Glenn — 1854-1920 |
| | Governor, 1905-1909; legislator. Champion of Prohibition and of railroad regulation. Home stood 1 block W. — Map (db m31615) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-86 — Robert M. Hanes — 1890-1959 |
| | Banker. Economic adviser to post-World War II Europe. A founder of the Research Triangle Park. Home was 50 yds. W. — Map (db m31616) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Safe Bus Company |
| | The Safe Bus Company was chartered in 1926, when several small "jitney" services merged their operations to better serve Winston-Salem's African-American citizens. With the motto "safety and service," Safe Bus Company eventually employed more than 80 drivers and carried 8,000 passengers a day, earning the distinction of being the largest African-American -owned and -operated transportation business in the world. In 1972, Safe Bus Company was purchased by the Winston-Salem Transit Authority. . . . — Map (db m51971) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-106 — Salem Academy and College |
| | Moravian settlers in 1772 founded a school for girls, now a liberal arts college & academy. Campus is 1/2 mi. N.E. — Map (db m52136) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Salem Concert Hall |
| | Site of
Salem Concert Hall
in which were held the
First Courts
of
Forsyth County
1848 - 1850 — Map (db m54259) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and Arista Cotton Mill |
| | Known also as the Fries Mill Complex, the former Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and Arista Cotton Mill is the oldest physical reminder of the textile industry in Winston-Salem. Completed in 1836, the Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company was organized and built by members of the Moravian congregation in Salem. In 1880, the F. & H. Fries Cotton Arista Mills constructed the second major building in the complex. The Fries Mill Complex played a significant role in the industrial revolution, and is . . . — Map (db m51815) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Salem Moravian Graveyard — "God's Acre" |
| |
Salem
Moravian Graveyard
"God's Acre"
First Internment June 7, 1771
John Birkhead
Avenue opened April 13, 1772
First early Easter morning
service April 11, 1773
Visitors Welcome — Map (db m54393) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Salem Moravian Graveyard |
| | The Moravian Graveyard is still known fondly by the old Germanic name of "God’s Acre" (Gottesacker). This burial ground is characterized by its simplicity and uniformity. As the name implies, this is a field where the bodies are "sown as perishable seed" to await the day when they will be raised in an "imperishable form."
Here the departed are buried chronologically, in the order in which they are "called home to be with the Lord."
Here are no statues or monuments to distinguish the . . . — Map (db m54684) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Salem Town Hall |
| | The Salem Town Hall was Salem's last municipal building before the Town's consolidation with Winston in 1913. The last of Salem's town halls to remain standing, the building was designed by the prominent local architect Willard C. Northup and features the Italianate style as well as local Moravian architectural influences. The 1912 Salem Town Hall expresses the pride and development of Salem in the year before its consolidation with the city of Winston. After the two towns merged, the building . . . — Map (db m51720) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Salem Waterworks |
| | In 1771, the Moravian Town of Salem completed construction of one of the first public waterworks systems in the American Colonies. Tapping natural springs located nearby, the system used bored logs, joined and buried underground, to deliver the water a mile away. The waterworks supplied water to public stand pipes in Salem's streets, and inside spigots in several of Salem's buildings. Completed in just two months, the system provided water not just for drinking, but for fire protection and . . . — Map (db m51982) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Shamrock Mills |
| | In 1911, Shamrock Knitting Mills was the first structure built by the Hanes Hosiery empire. Originally, the company manufactured cotton socks for children and men. In 1914, Shamrock Knitting Mills was renamed Hanes Hosiery Mills Company, and in 1918, the company switched to the production of women's cotton hosiery. The building's sawtooth roof is noteworthy in the development of industrial architecture. Sawtooth roof construction became popular in the 19th century and was also known as "north . . . — Map (db m51817) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-101 — Simon G. Atkins — 1863-1934 |
| | Founded Slater Academy, now Winston-Salem State Univ.; president, 1892-1904, 1913-34. Religious and community leader. Lived one block west. — Map (db m52208) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Simon Green Atkins House |
| | The Atkins House was built by Simon Green Atkins in 1893. Atkins was responsible for the development of the Columbian Heights neighborhood and for the creation of Slater Industrial Academy, later Winston-Salem University. Dr. Atkins came to Winston-Salem in 1890 to serve as the principal of the Depot Street Graded School, then the largest and most important public school for African-Americans in North Carolina. Atkins was president of Slater Industrial Academy from 1892-1934. The Atkins House . . . — Map (db m52735) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — Symbol of Service |
| | Dedicated to all firemen of this community. The bell first tolled to summon volunteer firefighters in the Town of Salem. Since 1912 this bell had hung in the old bell tower that was located at Station No 2, 301 South Liberty Street — Map (db m56085) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — The Forsyth County Men — Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice In The World War — 1917-1918 |
| |
1917-1918
In Grateful Remembrance of
The Forsyth County Men
Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice
In The World War
Clinton A. Anderson
William M. Bazemore
Jim Bennett
Clyde Bolling
Frank J. Brewer
Isaac L. Brown
Sam Chambers
James R. Cook
Horace B. Connelly
James Cottingham
Herbert Crighton
Samuel Crews
Germie Crutchfield
Wade R. Davis
John Sidney Doty
John G. B. Duvall
Addison Eddings
Ben C. Elliott
Ben C. Ellis
Will Farris
Bud Gentry
Rex . . . — Map (db m55728) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — The Home of Simon G. Atkins — 1863-1934 |
| | Founder of Slater Academy
Now Winston-Salem State University;
President, 1892-1904; 1913-1934
Religious and Community Leader.
House Originally Located
Three Blocks West of Current Location — Map (db m52739) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — The Honorable Willie Jones of Halifax — To the memory of — 1741-1801 |
| | Who led the 1788 Constitutional Convention of North Carolina to decline to ratify the Federal Constitution until his State and its people were assured that a Bill of Rights would be incorporated in the United States Constitution. Perhaps more than any other person, his devotion to the liberties of the people led to the adoption of those first ten Amendments securing to us the ancient rights of English-speaking peoples.
Erected in grateful recognition by the Forsyth County Bar Association . . . — Map (db m63741) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — The Mickey Coffee Pot |
| | Built in 1858 by the brothers Samuel and Julius Mickey, Moravian descendants of the founders of Salem, this landmark originally stood as a sign in front of their tin shop at the corner of South Main and Belews Streets in Salem — Map (db m54264) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — The Pond |
| | At the turn of the 20th century, Winston's water reservoir was located at the top of Trade Street Hill, where Eighth and Trade Streets intersected. Disaster struck in the early morning hours of November 2, 1904, when people in the neighborhood were awakened by a loud thud and shudders "like an earthquake." The entire north wall of the reservoir had collapsed. An estimated 800,000-1,400,000 gallons of water rushed into the neighborhood, destroying houses, killing nine people and injuring many . . . — Map (db m52691) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-110 — Wachovia Tract |
| | On Dec. 27, 1752, survey for Moravian settlement began near here. Bishop August Spangenberg led frontier expedition that selected 98,985 acres. — Map (db m51879) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-50 — Wake Forest University |
| | Founded 1834 in Wake County by N.C. Baptist Convention. Moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. — Map (db m51782) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-97 — Washington's Southern Tour |
| | President Washington spent night of May 31, 1791, at the tavern in Salem. 1/2 mile north — Map (db m52135) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — West Salem Historic District |
| | The West Salem Historic District recognizes West Salem's importance in the development of Salem and the growth of Winston-Salem. The neighborhood initially was settled as farms on "outlots" serving Salem during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During the early 20th century, West Salem became associated with the industrialization of Winston-Salem and its resulting suburban expansion. The district features an impressive collection of architectural styles, from mid 19th century Greek . . . — Map (db m52151) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-31 — Winston-Salem State University |
| | Established for Negroes as Slater Industrial Academy, 1892. State supported since 1895; University since 1969. — Map (db m52206) HM |
| North Carolina (Forsyth County), Winston-Salem — J-52 — Wm. Cyrus Briggs — 1861-1918 |
| | Invented in 1898 one of the first successful automatic cigarette machines. Workshop was 3 blocks east. — Map (db m51715) HM |
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