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Scene inside the first Hanes Knitting factory

Tobacco and textiles played a role in Forsyth County from the very beginning of the Wachovia settlement. But from the 1880s to the 1980s, these two industries dominated the industry and cultural environment of Winston-Salem like no others. Working with fabrics started simply... <Read more>

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  Comment on Gwendolyn Bailey entering R. J. Reynolds High School, 1957. by Don Folz
  Saturday, August 11, 2018 3:38 am

  The latter part of John Cissna’s comment describes my feeling for many years after this event, in that I regretted not ever having spoke to her to help ease the ostracizing which occurred. In effect, I contributed to it and have regretted this until this very day.

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  Comment on Fannie Mae Rhynes by Latoya Smith
  Saturday, July 28, 2018 7:50 pm

  Is the best Stepmother anyone can have

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  Comment on Air Force Radar Station on Union Cross Road, 1962. by jd anderson
  Saturday, July 28, 2018 1:21 am

  my dad and my uncle owned the little store across the street from the old ball field. anderson’s grocery. as a kid i can remember when the tower had the big radar turning on the top. the store still is there currently ran by the people that got it after my uncle passed away.

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  Comment on R. J. Reynolds High School basketball game against High Point, 1958. by Molly G. Rawls, Photograph Collection Librarian, Forsyth County Public Library
  Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:42 pm

  Thanks for the identification. I’ll add his name to the photo database.

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  Comment on R. J. Reynolds High School basketball game against Salisbury NC’s Boyden High School, 1958. by Molly G. Rawls, Photograph Collection Librarian, Forsyth County Public Library
  Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:41 pm

  Thank you for the identification. I’ll add his name to our photo database.

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  Comment on Forsyth County Centennial Parade on North Main Street, 1949. by Molly G. Rawls, Photograph Collection Librarian, Forsyth County Public Library
  Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:23 am

  Thank you for the identification. I’ll add their names to the photo database.

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  Comment on Leinbach Family by Suzanne Bailey
  Thursday, July 19, 2018 9:56 pm

  James Linebach, the first man on the left, was my great-grandfather. He married Bessie Estelle Reich in Salem on 1893. The following year my grand-father, Jamie Herman Linebach, was born. I am so thrilled to have found this photo!