The valley of the Yadkin River was home for aboriginal hunters in 8000 B.C., and by 1400 A.D. a village had grown up along the river's east bend. In the middle of the eighteenth century, a peaceable group of settlers, members of the congregations of the United Brethren, -- the Moravians -- established towns that would evolve over the next two hundred years into Winston-Salem."Winston-Salem: A Pictorial History" is the visual record of that evolution, showing Bethabara, the first house erected in Salem, portraits of early inhabitants, Forsyth County's first courthouse, and views of the changing... View More...
