The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-08
SALEM AND VICINITY.
"reminiscences of the Old Town From
1923 to the Present Time

1
the third of the series of papers on
"Reminiscences of Salem," by Angus
tus Fogle, who says:
| DR.. c. ID. Keehln built on the lot
| now owned by his son Frank. There
was at one time wide alarm about a
NEGRO insurrectiOn. Capt. Cooper
| drilled the militia in this lot: several
| trustworthy men were meanwhile
sent to Lexington to see if there were
| any real cause for alarm, but. there
I was no truth whatever in the runners.
J Then Timothx Nog!er built house
and gunshop next door below; and
the celebrated Vogler rifles, as we'll as
those OF Mr.. Geo. F'OltZ, nearly oppo-
site became well known all over the
| country.
Louis Eberhard. father,of Mrs. Chas.
| Pfohl, Mrs. S. +. Butner and Miss
Sophie Eberhard built a house on the
| corner, where he manufactured clocks.
He later sold to Henry Shultz, Will
liam Shultz's father, then j. G.. Sides
owned it, and lastly AdolphuS Reich.
Where the WaggomanS live, Thos.
| Welfare built: then it came into the
hands of its present owners. j. G.
| Sides built a house on the mill race,
which finishes this side of the street
When. in the near future, Centerville
| and South Side are tlouriShing suburbs
of Salem, this account will seem like
legend of the Middle Ages, but dimly
apprehended.
In 1892 double row of sycamore
trees was planted. from some distance
below the hotel to Jhei bridge: they
were noble trees and formed Il pleas
ant walk; gradually they have died
J away. Some persons had foolish
idea that the fuzzy seeds caused
bronchial trouble. 1t is interesting
to know that this sycamore walk also
had ghost story, "A Woman in
White" like the shadowy white lady
that always foretells disaster to the
HohenZollerns. The ghost fitted up
and down, occasionally under the tall
trees, though she never foretold
trouble to any one.
Beyond the bridge, in 1916, a charm
: ing resort had been made by the young
men and boys of that day, around
, what was termed the Brothers Spring.
Going down the sycamore avenue to
the bridge and turning to the left,
past great rocky boulders, you follow
! ed neat walk to cool and shady
natural basin at the foot of the hill
now crowned by the cOlOred school
house. A fine spring was walled out,
and large pool enclosed by slight
5 railing was surrounded by the blue
! eyed fOrget-me-nOtS. The rustic seats
placed all about were often occupied
: A white washed fence surrounded the
: whole: the hillside was terraced ,and a
pavilion or Summer-hOuSe was built
} on its crest. f. A. Vogler, then a
young man, active and enthusiastic,
f with other young men and boys as
: helpers, surveyed the place and laid it
out tastefully.
2 We shall next glance up the oppo-
e site side of Main street, then down
| Salt street, then down Church street,
G | with a brief outline of the enVirOnS OF
V Salem in the early times.
4 Meadows and cornfieldS met the eye
!, for years, until E. I. Clemmons erect
0 ed the house now occupied by j. c.
, Fagg; he was stage contractor, and
Y finally went to Asheville when the old
: time Stage-cOacheS gave way to the
S iron horse. Geo. FoltZ lived next, {
noted gunSmith. On the corner OF
Walnut and Main streets J. ID. Slew
erS resided, but later sold his premises
to O. A. Keehln, and temporarily
4 lived in his shop until he took up his
abode on the lovely Cedar avenue il
the old Shultz house, where he died il
c 1890.
: The Salem Hotel is one of the ole
landmarks of the town. Built in III
; it was burned down in 1874, the land
g lord. Mr.. Meyer, and his family barrel,
e escaping with their lives: but it wa
| IeOulIU UilC C6lI. hC ldl ICt
brick, the massive walls, the steep
saddle roof, with dOrmer windows
show that it is not Il building of to
t, day. One house was added to TIN
e other; the third from the south ent
a was put up while Mr.. Byhan was pro
e prietor, the second was sort of con
e nectiOn between the other two, AM
7. used as Il dining hall till Col. Got
a built an addition to the west side fo
IS dining room, the former one becOm
is ing the public parlOr. Adam Butne
D. erected the fourth and last addition
" on the north side nearest MIR. Blum's
The hotel was under church contrC
and leased to different persons, TIL
70 Warden of the congregation requirin
rf from the lessee a strict complianc
- y with the spirit and letter of the writ
- ten articles lawfully executed.
= would be interesting to quote tn
- l. lease but we are limited in space
"a Conducted as a sacred trust the hote
~ became the social centre of the tOwr
I. the resort of the citizens who smoke
40 40 and talked as they sat around tn
10 large open fireplace of the public rOoI
le in winter, or on the long, cool yerand
Z in summer. The kindly attentio
paid to guests made them 10th
leave it's homelike precincts, and
was well patronized. The men VIII
ar at different times presided over
were first Mr.. Elrod, then Mr.. Meye
Mr.. Christian Blum, Mr.. Boner, NJ
al Gottlieb Byhan, Mr.. Matthew Right
ar Mr.. Warner, Mr.. ID. Welfare, NJ
of Senseman, Col. Gott, Mr.. Thos. Wi
~ son, Sr., Judge Wilson's father, M
~ r. Vogler, and Mr.. Thos. Boner, VIII
e was the last to hold it as church pro-
a erty. Mr.. Vogler is the sole survive
In 1850 Adam Butner purchased I'll
,r whole property for S., 900 and in tW
- years had cleared the purchase none,
or In 1858 he sold it to n. A. Chaffil
lie Esq, but it was not kept up properl.
va and Mr.. Butner took it back in 1S6
es keeping up its reputation for soil
nt comfort till his death in 1884. TT
3. property. was then bought by ID
he Swift, gentleman from Florida, VIII
lc II 1890, sold it to a company of Salel
ut gentlemen.
no The hotel has grown old with I'll
III place and pleasant memories ,cf1lst'
It. all about it. On May 81, 1871, GeI
George Washington, President of I'll
United States, visited Salem and lod
ed in room No. 13, which is still teri
IL ed the "Washington'S Room" I
=, was on his way to meet and conf
he with Alexander Martin, Governor
ne North Carolina. The President w;
as accompanied by his secretary, Maj
tn Jackson, and they rode in lar,
IT white chariot, drawn by four horse
,ly A two-horse baggage wagon follows
ng and fonr saddle horses supplied
re- servants, one of them leading hOr
] for the President when he wished