Longrifles of the Wachovia Tract

C. Michael Briggs is a native and resident of Greensboro, N.C. He is a longtime student of local history and a collector of Piedmont North Carolina decorative arts including North Carolina longrifles and banded powder horns. He has done programs on these subjects for the National Park Service, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,…

Thursday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m.

"Famous and Infamous Women of North Carolina" Join us for an engaging talk with author, historian, and storyteller Randell Jones. Learn about the fascinating lives of women in North Carolina who dared to live life on their terms. The talk will include special remarks about the subject of our current Women's History Month exhibit, "Lucy…

America 250 Celebration

People have been asking why we have a Christmas Tree in our research room. It is not in fact, a Christmas Tree. It is a Patriot Tree 🇺🇸! Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter of the NSDAR America 250 Patriot Tree The Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution…

National Women’s History Month Exhibit

During National Women’s History Month, we celebrate Lucy Bramlette Patterson, whose life of service a century ago to Winston-Salem and North Carolina remains an inspiration for those nonprofit organizations working today to continue making our community a better place for all citizens to live. A graduate of Salem Academy in 1882, she engaged our community…

Creeks of Forsyth County

Forsyth Creek Week is almost here. In addition to our photograph display celebrating our love of all things water-related, we invite you to come inside the North Carolina room where we have more for you to look at and explore. We thought it might be fun to learn a little bit about some of the…

Sanborn Insurance Maps Now Available Digitally

Our collection of Sanborn Insurance Maps have been digitized and are now accessible on the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center's website. These maps are helpful for researching historic properties and businesses, past street names, and historic neighborhoods, including ones that no longer exist. The maps are digitally available in high resolution with zoom capability. A…

Shining Stars

It is the holiday season and I have been busy making Moravian stars for the North Carolina Collection. They are all around us here in Winston-Salem, with one of the largest shining each night from the top of Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. Since I know very little about them, I decided to do a little…

Sketchbook Legacy 2021

We're back with a whole new group of talented young artists. Sketchbook Legacy - a project in collaboration with Art for Art's Sake - started last year at Meadowlark Middle School. The spring project asked Mrs. Miller's 8th graders to create a sketchbook or altered book. "Stay Positive & Covid Negative" - Kayla Harris Some…

Election Academy

How much do you really know about the election process? Have you ever wondered about it? Admit it you know you have and probably more so recently. The news stories and headlines have us all wondering and trying to figure out how the election process works. So here is some good news. The Forsyth County…

Brown Memorial Baptist Church…fe

In 1889, Baptists living in the Broad Street area founded a new congregation, the Broad Street Baptist Church. In 1906, they bought a lot at the corner of West Fourth and North Spring Street for a new church building. Ground was broken in November and the first three bricks laid by the misses Lillie Leak,…