Forsyth County, North Carolina

Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 8 Forsyth County towns.

The oldest is Clemmons, established 1824. The largest by population is Winston-Salem (249,545).

Town	Established	Population
Bethania	1839	344
Clemmons	1824	21,163
Kernersville	1873	26,449
King	1983	7,197
Lewisville	1991	13,381
Rural Hall	–	3,351
Walkertown	1984	5,692
Winston-Salem	–	249,545

About these towns

Bethania: The first planned Moravian settlement in North Carolina, Bethania exists as the only remaining independent, continuously active Moravian village in the southern United States, and is the only known existing Germanic-type linear agricultural village in the South.

Kernersville: The site was first settled by an Irishman named Caleb Story in 1756. Circa 1770, the site was purchased by William Dobson and was called "Dobson's Crossroads".

King: The town was originally called "King's Cabin". Charles and Francis King lived in a cabin owned by Francis's father for a short time in the 1830s.

Lewisville: It is a Piedmont Triad community.

Rural Hall: The earliest settler was Anthony Bitting (1738-1804), who was born in Pennsylvania to a German American family. In the 1770s he moved from Bucks County to Maryland, then to southern Virginia.

Walkertown: Walkertown was named for Robert Walker Esq. who was living at the site by 1771 after relocating from the original county seat of Richmond which was destroyed by a cyclone.

Winston-Salem: Various tribes, such as the Cheraw and the Keyauwee, inhabited the area. Followers of the Moravian Church had interacted with Cherokees. The city of Winston-Salem is a product of the merging of the two neighboring towns of Winston and Salem in 1913.