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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4K_consolidation-of-winston-salem-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 50ΒΌ acres immed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4J_pythian-hall-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4I_calvin-h-wiley-school-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 mov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UTT_site-of-dobsons-tavern-historical_Kernersville-NC.html
Here George Washington breakfasted June 2, 1791. The following excerpt is from his diary of his southern tour: "In company with the Govr. I set out for Guilford. By 4 o'clock-breakfasted at one Dobson's at the distance of eleven miles …
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