This monument was dedicated to Calvin Henderson Wiley, North Carolina Superintendent of Common Schools. School children raised the money for the monument, which was originally installed on the corner of West Fourth and Broad...
Eva Almira Wall was born in Forsyth County in 1890. She graduated from the Forsyth County schools and Salem College. She worked for the City of Winston-Salem as an auditor, a trouble-shooter for City...
On this day in 1999, Linda Davis took oath as Winston-Salem’s first female police chief. Police Chief Linda Gibson Petree Davis is a native of Winston-Salem and a graduate of R. J. Reynolds High...
This monument (look over the car at left) was originally installed in 1904 on the corner of West Fourth and Broad Street. The building at the right is West End Primary School, which faced...
William Neal Reynolds was born in Patrick County, Virginia, in 1863 to Hardin and Nancy Reynolds. He attended Trinity College (later Duke University), and joined his brother, Richard J. Reynolds, in the tobacco business...
Selected Dairies was incorporated by T. Holt Haywood, owner of Arden Farms; Thurmond Chatham, owner of Klondike Farms; and John C. Whitaker, owner of Whit-Acres Farm. The business was established to handle the dairy...
Hunter found this monument while taking a stroll in the West Highlands section of Winston-Salem. The name on the monument is “Wiley,” and it is located at a popular spot where many people walk...
Frank Liipfert Horton was born in Winston-Salem in 1918. He served in the U. S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he returned to Winston-Salem and he and his mother, Theo Taliaferro,...
The new baseball team, the Dash, announced its mascot in the newspaper on this date in 2009. The new mascot will be named “Bolt,” continuing the theme of quickness in movement. The look of...
William King Hoyt was born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1889. He graduated from Swarthmore College and was employed by the Trenton, New Jersey, Times from mid-1912 to 1924. During that time he...
