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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1S_winston-mutual-life-insurance-building-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
On August 6. 1906, the Winston Industrial Assoc. was established by African—American leaders to provide insurance for African—American tobacco workers. The association merged with Mountain City Mutual Life Ins. Co. in 1915 to become Wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W8G_easton-neighborhood-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 lot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W8F_ogburn-station-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VPL_o-hanlons-office-building-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
O'Hanlon's Office Building
placed on
The National Register
Of Historic Places
built 1915
rehabilitated 1985
by
Aaron Group
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VH2_five-row-at-reynolda-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 alo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VH1_the-childrens-home-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Opened 1909 by Western North Carolina Methodists for the care of children in need. Formerly the site of Davis School (military academy, 1890-1897).
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8S_winston-salem-chapter-of-the-black-panther-party-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In 1969, Winston-Salem became the first Southern city with a chapter of the Black Panther Party. Nationally and locally, the Black Panthers sought to protect African—American neighborhoods from police brutality; the volatility of the times o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8R_kate-bitting-reynolds-memorial-hospital-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 Reynold…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8Q_east-winston-library-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 libr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8P_reynoldstown-historic-district-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 Af…