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...
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June 28: Happy Birthday! Mary “Mollie” McCoy Hancock
Mary “Mollie” McCoy was born on this day in 1863, in Wentworth, to Josiah and Elizabeth Ellington McCoy. Mollie’s mother was a seamstress who wove her own cloth and owned one of the first...
June 28,1924: First Polo Game Played on New Field
Polo came to Winston-Salem officially in 1923. The Winston-Salem Polo club was organized with 13 members. Nine of the members are shown in the photo above. The members immediately secured the services of a...