Wayback Wednesday: 1949 Centennial Parade – Kindergarten-Style
Everyone in Forsyth County was caught up in the spirit of the ’49ers’ in May 1949. Forsyth County Centennial plans were in the works for over a year, and the parade that made its...
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Wayback Wednesday: Forsyth County Courthouses, Part 2.
Forsyth County was formed from the southern half of Stokes County on January 16, 1849. At that time the courts met in Germanton, the county seat of Stokes. The logical site for the new...
Flashback to 1937: Forsyth County Gets All-Steel School Buses
The Twin City Sentinel newspaper had exciting news in its September 6, 1937 edition. The news article on page one announced that Forsyth County students will be riding in style and in greater safety when the...
Identification Please! Class Trip, April 1961
This photograph was donated to the Forsyth County Public Library. It is unidentified as to names, but there is a date on the photograph, April 1961. It is possibly a senior class trip to...
December 27, 2013: Register of Deeds’ News
The Forsyth County Register of Deeds office announced on this day in 2013, in the Winston-Salem Journal, the launch of the Permitium system. The Permitium online order and payment system began operation at the...
September 6,1937:New School Buses
School children found out on this day in 1937 that they may soon be riding in one of the new all-steel school buses received recently in Forsyth County, as shown in the photo above....
Blast From the Past: Remembering Benjamin Forsyth
Forsyth County was named for Benjamin Forsyth, a hero of the War of 1812 and an officer in the elite Rifle Regiment. Forsyth’s early life is not fully documented, but he was thought to...
May 12,1949: Forsyth County Centennial Parade
On this day in 1949, Winston-Salem residents and visitors were treated to a parade celebrating the 100th anniversary of the formation of Forsyth County. At the end of the parade route, a review stand...
January 23: Happy Birthday! Eunice Hedrick Ayers
Eunice Hedrick was born in Lexington to O. C. and Margaret Hedrick in 1909. She was the oldest of their seven children and she graduated from Lexington High School and Crim’s Business College in Winston-Salem. ...