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Tornadoes hit the Winston-Salem area and Forsyth County on May 5. These tornadoes were part of the May 1989 tornado outbreak across Georgia , South Carolina , North Carolina , and Virginia . 1993 – Mel Watt becomes U.S. representative for North Carolina's 12th congressional district .
Less than 30 miles (50 km) north of Winston-Salem are the remains of the ancient Sauratown Mountains, named for the Saura people who once lived in much of the Piedmont area, including what is now Winston-Salem. [36] Winston-Salem is located 16 miles northwest of High Point, [37] 25 miles west of Greensboro, [38] and 69 miles northeast of ...
In 1936. his father opened another shop in Charleston, West Virginia, and a few years later, a third shop in Atlanta, Georgia. [ 1 ] In the summer of 1937, determined to own his own Krispy Kreme shop, Rudolph decided to move to Winston-Salem, North Carolina , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] rented a building across from Salem College and Academy, and on July 13 ...
Hanes was founded in 1900 by John Wesley Hanes (one of Winston-Salem's wealthiest and most influential business men) at Winston Salem, North Carolina under the name Shamrock Knitting Mills. [1] He died of heart trouble in 1903.
Winston-Salem State University was founded on September 28, 1892 as an industrial academy. It started as a one-room classroom with 25 students with a goal to “intellectually prepare the head ...
Simon Green Atkins (1863–1934) was a North Carolina educator who was the founder and first president of Winston-Salem State University (previously the Slater Industrial Academy) and founded the North Carolina Negro Teachers' Association in 1881. [1]
Reynolds was the most eligible bachelor for many years in Winston-Salem [4] and married Katharine Smith (November 17, 1880 – May 23, 1923), who was 30 years his junior, on February 27, 1905, in Mount Airy, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Zachary Taylor Smith (February 19, 1847 – June 13, 1938) and Mary Susan Jackson (January 21 ...
Salem merged with adjacent Winston in 1913, becoming known as Winston-Salem. A local architectural review district was created in 1948 (the first in North Carolina and probably the fifth in the country) to protect the historic remains of what had become a depressed area from encroaching development. [7]