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Forsyth County, North Carolina

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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117historic places

—earliest paper

1849formed

382,590pop. 2020

29cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 117 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 5 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Winston-Salem, Kernersville, Bethania.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Forsyth titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

66 of 117 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

117 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ardmore Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2004
Arista Cotton Mill Complex	Winston-Salem	Building	1977
Atkins High School (former)	Winston-Salem	Building	1999
Atkins, S. G., House	Winston-Salem	Building	1979
Bahnson Company Building	Winston-Salem	Building	2026
Bahnson, Agnew Hunter, House	Winston-Salem	Building	2001
Bethabara Historic District NHL	Winston-Salem	District	1978
Bethabara Moravian Church	Winston-Salem	Building	1971
Bethania Historic District NHL	Winston-Salem	District	1976
Bethania Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Bethania	District	1991
Black, George, House and Brickyard	Winston-Salem	Building	2000
Blair, William Allen, House	Winston-Salem	Building	1985
Bland, Joseph Franklin, House	Winston-Salem	Building	1984
Brickenstein-Leinbach House	Winston-Salem	Building	1991
Brown, W.C., Apartment Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1998
Centerville Historic District	winston-Salem	District	2008
Chatham Manufacturing Company-Western Electric Company	Winston-Salem	Building	2011
Chatham, Thurmond and Lucy, House	Winston-Salem	Building	2014
Clayton Family Farm	Stanleyville	District	2001
Coan-Gray House	Winston-Salem	Building	2023
Conrad-Starbuck House	Winston-Salem	Building	1990
Craver Apartment Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1998
Crews, Thomas A., House	Walkertown	Building	1993
Downtown North Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2002
Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2022
Dyer, James B. and Diana M., HOuse	Winston-Salem	Building	2006
Evergreen Farm	Winston-Salem	District	2019
First Baptist Church	Kernersville	Building	1988
Flynt House	Rural Hall	Building	2018
Forsyth County Courthouse	Winston-Salem	Building	2013
Gilmer Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1982
Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Winston-Salem	Building	1998
Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church	Winston-Salem	Building	1999
Gray, Elizabeth and Bowman, Jr. House	Lewisville	Building	2021
Graylyn	Winston-Salem	Building	1978
Hanes Hosiery Mill-Ivy Avenue Plant	Winston-Salem	Building	2016
Hanes, Alexander S. and Mary R., House	Winston-Salem	Building	2023
Hanes, P.H., Knitting Company	Winston-Salem	Building	2005
Hanes, Robert M., House	Winston-Salem	Building	2012
Harmon-Reid Mill	Kernersville	Building	1988
Hill, J. S., House	Winston-Salem	Building	1979
Hoehns (Hanes), Philip and Johanna, House	Clemmons	Building	2016
Holly Avenue Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2002
Hoots Milling Company Roller Mill	Winston-Salem	Building	2014
Hylehurst	Winston-Salem	Building	1983
Indera Mills	Winston-Salem	Building	1999
Jones, Dr. Beverly, House	Bethania	Building	1978
Kapp, John Henry, Farm	Bethania	District	1992
Kernersville Depot	Kernersville	Building	1988
Korner's Folly	Kernersville	Building	1973
Lloyd Presbyterian Church	Winston-Salem	Building	1998
Lowe, Cicero Francis, House	Winston-Salem	Building	1984
Ludlow, Col. Jacob Lott, House	Winston-Salem	Building	1983
Mars Hill Baptist Church	Winston-Salem	Building	1999
McKaughan, Isaac Harrison, House	Kernersville	Building	1988
Memorial Industrial School	Rural Hall	Building	2015
Middleton House	Winston-Salem	Building	2000
Nissen Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1983
Nissen Building (Boundary Increase)	Winston-Salem	Building	2004
Nissen, S.J., Building	Winston-Salem	Building	2007
North Cherry Street Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2004
North Cherry Street Historic District	Kernersville	District	1988
North Cherry Street Historic District (Boundary Decrease and Additional Documentation)	Winston-Salem	District	2014
O'Hanlon Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1984
Oak Crest Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2016
Oak Grove School	Winston-Salem	Building	2002
Old German Baptist Brethern Church	Winston-Salem	Building	2014
Old Richmond Schoolhouse and Gymnasium	Tobaccoville	Building	2009
Old Salem Historic District NHL	Winston-Salem	District	1966
Paisley J. W., House	Winston-Salem	Building	1979
Pepper Building	Winston-Salem	Building	2014
Poindexter, H. D., Houses	Winston-Salem	Building	1978
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Buildings 82 and 83	Winston-Salem	Building	2024
Reynolda Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	1980
Reynolds Building	Winston-Salem	Building	2014
Reynolds, R.J., Tobacco Company Buildings 2-1 and 2-2	Winston-Salem	Building	2017
Reynolds, Richard J., High School and Richard J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium	Winston-Salem	Building	1991
Reynoldstown Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2008
Richmond Courthouse Site	Donnaha	Site	1984
Roberts-Justice House	Kernersville	Building	1988
Robinson, A., Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1998
Rogers, James Mitchell, House	Winston-Salem	Building	1982
Rural Hall Depot	Rural Hall	Building	1983
Salem Tavern NHL	Winston-Salem	Building	1966
Salem Town Hall	Winston-Salem	Building	1983
Schaub, John Jacob, House	Vienna	Building	1982
Shamrock Mills	Winston-Salem	Building	1978
Shell Service Station	Winston-Salem	Building	1976
Shultz, Christian Thomas, House	Winston-Salem	Building	2005
Single Brothers Industrial Complex Site	Winston-Salem	Site	1979
Single Brothers' House NHL	Winston-Salem	Building	1970
Smith, W. F., and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1978
Snyder, John Wesley, House	Winston-Salem	Building	2000
Sosnik-Morris-Early Commercial Block	Winston-Salem	Building	1984
South Main Street Historic District	Kernersville	District	1988
South Trade Street Houses	Winston-Salem	Building	1978
Speas, William Henry and Sarah Hauser, House	Pfafftown	Building	2018
Spruce Street YMCA	Winston-Salem	Building	1984
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church	Winston-Salem	Building	2020
St. Philip's Moravian Church	Winston-Salem	Building	1991
Stauber, Samuel B., Farm	Bethania	District	1988
Stuart Motor Company	Kernersville	Building	1988
Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2008
Union Station	Winston-Salem	Building	1998
Wachovia Building	Winston-Salem	Building	2001
Waller House	Pfafftown	Building	2014
Washington Park Historc District	Winston-Salem	District	1992
Washovia Bank and Trust Company Building	Winston-Salem	Building	1984
Waughtown-Belview Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2005
West End Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	1986
West Salem Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2005
Winston Lake Golf Course	Winston-Salem	Site	2023
Winston-Salem City Hall	Winston-Salem	Building	2001
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Freight Warehouse and Office	Winston-Salem	Building	1991
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District	Winston-Salem	District	2009
Womble, Bunyan S. and Edith W., House	Winston-Salem	Building	2019
Zevely House	Winston-Salem	Building	1973

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Forsyth was formed in 1849 (1849-01-16) from Stokes.

FORSYTH created from STOKES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Forsyth County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,168	12,692	18,070	35,261	77,269	126,475	146,135	189,428	243,683	306,067	382,590

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park	Park unit	37.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

29 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 29 of 29 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Advente Moravian God's Acre Cemetery	36.0393	-80.26843
Banner Cemetery	36.2318	-80.24699
Beck Cemetery	36.22235	-80.23921
Bellevue Cemetery	36.0618	-80.22949
Carmichael Cemetery	36.22374	-80.26005
Clayton Cemetery	36.19961	-80.27049
Clemmons Memorial Park	None	None
Crestview Memorial Park	36.22097	-80.28967
East Lawn Gardens of Memory	36.13014	-80.0757
Evergreen Cemetery	36.10513	-80.21615
Flint Cemetery	36.21822	-80.28673
Forsyth Memorial Park	36.15458	-80.32727
Garden of Memories Cemetery	36.17014	-80.17116
Griffin Cemetery	36.2343	-80.26727
Mecum Cemetery	36.1418	-80.15782
Morris Cemetery	36.21652	-80.23116
Mount Gur Cemetery	36.12889	-80.07534
Mount Pleasant Methodist Cemetery	35.99316	-80.40538
Nat Watkins Cemetery	36.1859	-80.15285
Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery	36.1863	-80.15251
Oaklawn Memorial Gardens	36.07401	-80.17219
Odd Fellows Cemetery	36.12641	-80.24898
Ogburn Cemetery	36.19166	-80.25761
Parklawn Memorial Park	36.05418	-80.26142
Piedmont Memorial Gardens	36.05211	-80.14203
Salem Cemetery	36.09153	-80.23894
Stultz Cemetery	36.19652	-80.26227
Sullivan Cemetery	36.22735	-80.24921
Woodland Cemetery	36.13374	-80.24894

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Benefit	36.15541	-80.06087
Chalk Level	36.1568	-80.20533
Sedges Garden	36.18958	-80.21921
White Road	36.19597	-80.09088

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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