In 1893, Boston Cottage Co. sold the first lots here,
just north of the Winston city limits and west of Old
Town Road. Builders constructed small rental houses
for African Americans, many of whom worked in
tobacco factories. Except for 40 sold . . . — — Map (db m239164) HM
On January 6, 1766, a dozen brethren came from nearby Bethabara and Bethania to the site chosen for the new Moravian town of Salem. That afternoon they felled trees to build a one-story log structure, known as the "Builders' House," for shelter . . . — — Map (db m172153) HM
As part of the 250th anniversary of Salem celebration, Old Salem Museums & Gardens collaborated with Norman Coates and Jack Miller of the UNC School of the Arts to create this lighting project on the site of the Builders' House, the first building . . . — — Map (db m172154) HM
Calvin Henderson Wiley (1819-1887) was a lawyer, author, legislator, minister, and champion of public education. Wiley became North Carolina's first Superintendent of Common Schools in 1853 and remained in that position until 1865. In 1869, he moved . . . — — Map (db m98784) HM
Dash career: (2014, 2017)
Career stats: 5 G 4.84 ERA
21 SO 1.384 WHIP
Highlights
NCBWA Freshman Pitcher of the Year
2013 USA Baseball Richard Case POY
2021 MLB All-Star Game Participant
A North Carolina . . . — — Map (db m300727) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m52750) HM
Dash career: (2010)
Career stats: 4G 2.25 ERA
4 SO 1.250 WHIP
Highlights
7X All-Star
2018 World Series Champion
Reached 2K strikeouts in fewest innings
A 7x all-star and 2018 World Series champion with the . . . — — Map (db m300736) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51721) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m63744) HM
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
First Street marks the former boundary of Salem and Winston. Salem was founded in 1766 as the central congregational town for the Moravian Church in North Carolina. In 1849, when Forsyth County was formed, the Moravian Church sold 50Ό acres . . . — — Map (db m98796) HM
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
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This Monument is erected by the . . . — — Map (db m53726) HM
Daniel Boone lived 18 miles S.W.
His Parents are buried 13 miles S.W.
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Here Passes the Trace of the
Old Plank Road, The Fayetteville
and Western, Chartered 1848
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This Memorail Erected by the Boone Trail Highway . . . — — Map (db m98651) HM
An enslaved African American named David (also known as Davy) lived in a house built here on Lot 7 in 1835. David was purchased by the Wachovia Administration in 1805, eventually becoming the servant of the Administrator, Rev. Ludwig von . . . — — Map (db m172141) HM
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' . . . — — Map (db m63688) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51973) HM
spoke here at Goler Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church on Monday Apr. 13, 1964 for the Voter Registration Project of Winston-Salem — — Map (db m239243) HM
Dash Career: (1971)
Career Stats: .286 BA 12 HR 63 R 63 RBI 7 SB
Highlights
3X All-Star
8X Gold Glover
2X Silver Slugger
Dwight Evans was a fifth round selection by the Boston Red Sox in the 1969 MLB draft. . . . — — Map (db m301458) HM
Dash career: (2018)
Career stats: 9 W 2.89 ERA
82 SO 1.116 WHIP
Highlights
2018 Futures Game participant
2021 AL leader in strikeouts per 9 IP
Dylan Cease received a scholarship offer from Vanderbilt before . . . — — Map (db m300471) HM
The work of this prolific Winston-Salem sculptor is exhibited in international galleries. During her career, Earline Health King completed 345 private commissions and public art works including statues of Bowman Gray, Dr. Simon Green Atkins and a . . . — — Map (db m172164) HM
In April of 1953, three African—American physicians and their wives, Dr. H. Darius and Laney Malloy, Dr. H. Rembert and Elaine Malloy, and Dr. J. Charles and Beatrice Jordan offered to the city a site for the new African-American branch . . . — — Map (db m98989) HM
Easton is a post-World War II subdivision built in 1949 to ease Winston-Salem's housing shortage. The GI Bill of 1944, which guaranteed low-interest home loans for veterans, promoted the construction of houses in new subdivisions and on vacant lots . . . — — Map (db m100413) HM
Dash Career: (2017, 2021)
Career Stats: 31 G .350 BA 9 HR 22 R 28 RBI
Highlights
2X Futures Game Participant
2020 Silver Slugger (OF)
Given the nickname "Big Baby" by his uncle due to his resemblence to Hall of . . . — — Map (db m301466) HM
In the opening year of the Civil War, the church behind you (now St. Philips Moravian) was constructed for enslaved and free black Moravians. Its cornerstone was laid on August 24, 1861, and it was consecrated on December 15. It replaced an . . . — — Map (db m172121) HM
The Rev. George Washington Holland organized First Baptist Church, the first African-American Baptist church in Winston. On July 23, 1879, the congregation purchased the property on this corner from the United Brethren of Salem, dedicating a wooden . . . — — Map (db m172158) HM
On February 8, 1960, Carl Wesley Matthews began the city's sit-in demonstration alone at lunch counters near this site and was soon joined by students from Winston-Salem Teachers College, Atkins High School, and Wake Forest College. The nonviolent . . . — — Map (db m16905) HM
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
Five Row was community of African-American farmworkers and their families who worked at Reynolda, the estate of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds. First occupied in 1916, it began as two rows of five cottages and gardens that fronted an unpaved road along . . . — — Map (db m99309) HM
She used theatre to break area racial barriers. Flonnie Anderson formed the Community Players Guild (1952), the first Black community theatre troupe in the South. Later she expanded it to Flonnie Anderson Theatrical Association (1981). . . . — — Map (db m172160) HM
In 1922, the 14th Street School was built on this corner as a Colored Graded School. The four-story, Classical Revival style facility was located in the prominent African-American E. 14th Street neighborhood, and was soon expanded with a . . . — — Map (db m140223) HM
This garden presents a design inspired by early kitchen garden at Bethabara, the first Moravian town in Wachovia. In 1759, Moravian surveyor Philip Christian Gottlieb Reuter recorded Der Up-Land Gartten, or the Upland Garden (see image . . . — — Map (db m172056) HM
Dash Career: (2018)
Career Stats: .293 BA 6 HR 58 R 61 RBI
Highlights
2017 All-ACC first team
Having two stints in the city of Winston-Salem, Gavin Sheets played his college ball for Wake Forest from 2014-2017 . . . — — Map (db m300743) HM
The only German Colonial Church with attached living quarters remaining in the United States. Moravian Wachovia tract leader Frederic Marshall designed building. — — Map (db m162109) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m52674) HM
Dash Career: (1950, 1957)
Career Record: Overall 1054-994 Winston-Salem 178-115
Highlights
2003 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Inductee
1993 King of Baseball Award for contributions to Minor League Baseball
George . . . — — Map (db m301464) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m52814) HM
Many African Americans sought to have their own homes after Emancipation. Although in Salem white landowners sold a few lots to people of color, Moravian Church leaders, under pressure from residents who feared black encroachment, rejected . . . — — Map (db m172125) HM
In 1821, the newly married Salem saddler Heinrich (Henry) Herbst moved from the Single Brothers' House to the house he built here on Lot 33 (to your left). Like other artisans in town, Herbst both lives and worked in his house; however, while many . . . — — Map (db m172151) HM
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
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 . . . — — Map (db m54352) HM
In 1902, Pleasant Henderson Hanes established a knitting company on Stratford Road, initially producing cotton-ribbed men's underwear. He partnered with his sons P. Huber Hanes and William M. Hanes to operate the business, which encompasses a second . . . — — Map (db m140053) HM
Home Moravian Church is an active Christian congregation. Our mission statement, "Fulfilling Christ's call to love God, live in community, and serve our neighbor," describes the role of Home Church within its community and the world. The . . . — — Map (db m172137) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51983) HM
Dash career: (1985)
Career stats: 8 W 2.30 ERA
94 SO 1.106 WHIP
Highlights
2003 All-Star Game Participant
2003 Roberto Clemente Award Winner
2008 World Series Champion
Jamie Moyer's career in MLB was . . . — — Map (db m301468) HM
Dash career: (1998)
Career stats: 2 W 5.40 ERA
13 SO 1.108 WHIP
Highlights
1987 James E. Sullivan Award winner
1988 Olympic Gold Medalist
Pitched a no-hitter (1993)
A trailblazer in the sport of baseball, . . . — — Map (db m300464) HM
Dash Career: (1987)
Career Stats: .280 BA 8 HR 51 R 46 RBI 9 SB
Highlights
4X World Series Champion
2000 All-Star Game Participant
2006 NL Manager of the Year
Having a lengthy career in the Major League . . . — — Map (db m300685) HM
Dash career: (1999)
Career stats: 5 W 3.33 ERA
84 SO 1.244 WHIP
Highlights
Youngest Player in 2000 AL Season
2005 All-Star Game Participant
2005 World Series Winner
A member of the 2005 World Series . . . — — Map (db m300690) HM
The 1938 Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital was the first facility offering comprehensive medical care and professional medical education for African-Americans in Winston-Salem. Prompted by petitions to Mayor W.T. Wilson, William Neal Reynolds . . . — — Map (db m98990) HM
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
Archaeologists have located 28 of the graves in the original Parish Graveyard. Rebecca Hill was the last person buried in the Parish Graveyard, prior to the racial segregation of Salem cemeteries in 1816. Rebecca was born on January 23, 1772 and . . . — — Map (db m172104) HM
When George and Mary Catherine Hege move to the house at Lot 101 in 1851, they brought with them at least two enslaved African Americans, including Lewis, who had been born in 1840 at the Hege grist and saw mill outside of Salem. Lewis likely . . . — — Map (db m172101) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51974) HM
Presently sealed under the Old Salem Visitor Center driveway and parking lot are the archaeological remains of the 1789 Abraham Loesch House, examined in 1999. The house stood with its side to Walnut Street, here paved in brick. A well was dug at . . . — — Map (db m172054) HM
The "5" Royales – Winston-Salem natives Lowman Pauling, Obadiah Carter, James Moore, Johnny Tanner, Otto Jeffries, and Jeffries' successor Eugene Tanner – climbed the R&B charts in the 1950s with songs written by Pauling, including the . . . — — Map (db m140221) HM
Dash Career: (2012)
Career Stats: .273 BA 14 HR 80 R 59 RBI 11 SB
Highlights
2019 All-MLB Second Team
2021 All-Star Game Participant
44 HRs in 2021 as a 2B (MLB Record)
Drafted in the thirty-fourth round by . . . — — Map (db m300740) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m52852) HM
On this spot stood the hut taken possession of by the Moravian settlers at 3 o'clock p.m., November 17, 1753.
About one hundred feet to the southwest was later erected the well known Bethabara Tavern. — — Map (db m266587) HM
This award-winning poetry slam artist is known for telling powerful stories of human struggles and triumphs. She competed nationally and in the late 1990's captured a championship in the Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam Festival.
Britton . . . — — Map (db m172162) HM
In 1890, New Bethel Baptist Church was organized by the Reverend George Holland, a minister from Danville, Virginia. The congregation first met in the Trade Street home of John Lee and his wife, Alice Snow Lee. The 25-member congregation later . . . — — Map (db m98783) HM
Dash Career: (2018-2019)
Career Stats: .283 BA 2 HR 34 R 36 RBI 23 SB
Highlights
2017 Pac-12 Player of the Year
2017 College World Series All-Tournament Team
2019 Futures Game Participant
Known as "Nicky Two . . . — — Map (db m300746) HM
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
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 . . . — — Map (db m52623) HM
In 1800, Edmund Ogburn arrived in North Carolina from Pennsylvania and purchased 51 acres north of Salem from the Moravians. Ogburn and his descendants, who expanded the family property, were among North Carolina's first tobacco farmers. By 1840, . . . — — Map (db m100412) HM
Old Salem Historic District
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This district possesses national significance as an exceptional reflection of the culture of German immigrants who established the theocratically . . . — — Map (db m172063) HM
[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 . . . — — Map (db m247324) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m162107) HM
The farming community of Pfafftown was settled on the west bank of Muddy Creek around the farm of Peter Pfaff Sr., who purchased the land in 1784. In the mid- to late-1800s, several houses in the Greek Revival and other popular styles were built, . . . — — Map (db m99753) HM
Phi Omega was established in 1924 as the first graduate chapter in North Carolina of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the nation's oldest African-American sorority. Members have built a legacy of "Service to All Mankind", including . . . — — Map (db m172156) HM
In 1923. Katharine Smith Reynolds built a forty-five acre polo complex for the newly formed Winston-Salem Polo Team. The team competed throughout the Southeast and included members of the Hanes, Reynolds, and Chatham families. The complex was part . . . — — Map (db m135928) HM
Though Salem's main pottery shop and kiln were located across the street on Lots 48 and 49, potters fired some of their most innovative work here on Lot 38. Once a vacant lot used for storage by the town's first master potter, Gottfried Aust, Lot . . . — — Map (db m172145) HM
Pythian Hall was constructed at this site in 1902 in a prominent African-American community. The three-story brick building housed the Prince Hall Mason's and the Knights of Pythias on the second and third floors. These fraternal organizations . . . — — Map (db m98782) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51984) HM
The R.J.R. Factory 64 is one of the local sites where large labor strikes occurred. The first took place in 1943 after a factory worker died on the job. Several hundred female workers, primarily African-American, began an immediate strike that . . . — — Map (db m98776) HM
This exhibit represents the partial faηade of the Reich-Hege house as it appeared in the mid-1800s. Built in 1830, the house stood until 1922. Archaeological excavations, written records, and photographic evidence have helped clarify the . . . — — Map (db m172102) HM
This is the cellar hole of the Reich-Hege house excavated by Old Salem Department of Archaeology in 2005-2006. Shoemaker Emanuel Reich built a house with a shop here on Lot 101 in 1830. The traditional German Moravian house form was built in frame . . . — — Map (db m172073) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51370) HM
In 1919, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company built this neighborhood of bungalows to ease a housing shortage. Initially, a majority of the development was designated for Reynolds's white employees. The 1931 construction of Atkins High School for . . . — — Map (db m98988) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m51717) HM
