Cedar Avenue…the pride of Salem…

As always, most images can be seen at full size by clicking on them. So someone sends me this picture and wants to know what Cedar Avenue is or was... I mention this to several people and am surprised to find that none of them have ever heard of Cedar Avenue either...I decide to do…

It Happened on this Date…

From today's  This Day in North Carolina History   Women’s Education in North Carolina Began at Salem by NC Culture The Salem Academy and College campus in the 1880s. Image from the Forsyth County Public Library. On May 16, 1804, Salem Academy opened the doors of its new dormitory, South Hall, to students and officially transitioned…

Presidents and the king played football…

Our posts rarely stray outside of Forsyth County, not because we are not interested in extra-county matters, but because there are way too many in-county stories for us to ever cover. But right from the start in the 1750s, the annual Moravian diary reviews began with world events and proceeded to the local, because the…