Benjamin Forsyth
Inscription
Officer in the War of 1812.
Mortally wounded in Canada, 1814. Forsyth County named for him. Home stood a few feet
north of this spot.
Location
AddressNC 8/65 at Germantown
CityGermanton
CountyStokes
StateNorth Carolina
Coordinates36.261940, -80.232130
Sources
More markers in Stokes
Stoneman's Raid
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On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. cavalry passed through Danbury, April 9, 1865.
Gabriel Moore
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Governor of Alabama, 1829-1831.
Bean Shoals Canal
Attempted ca. 1820-25 by Hiram Jennings for Yadkin Navigation Co. Hamilton Fulton was consultant.
Moratock Furnace
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Smelting furnace built by Nathaniel Moody in 1843.
Greensboro Massacre
Greensboro, NC
Ku Klux Klan members and American Nazis, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.