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Site History• 1917 • The county farm site, located on North Liberty Street, included

a poorhouse where needy people could live and work if they were physically able.

• The first county-operated tuberculosis hospital ($10,000) in North Carolina at the county farm.

• Reports from 1919 stated that the tuberculosis hospital was full at all times.

County Tuberculosis Sanitarium - 1917

Site History• 1927 • September

• County Commissioners purchased approximately 700 acres of land from over twenty private property holders for County Home purposes. The site was located off Rural Hall Road/Highway No. 66.

• 1927 • December

• The County Commissioners selected the site for the New (second) Tuberculosis Hospital/Sanitarium.

County Home Site

Site History• 1928 • The County commissioned the architecture firm of Northup and O’ Brien to draw

plans for the second tuberculosis hospital ($250,000) to be built on Shattalon Drive’s north Side near Rural Hall Road.

• 1930 • The Tuberculosis Hospital began serving white patients and accommodating 148

adults and 24 children. The children were housed in a separate building and attended school on site.

• 1931 • African American patients remained at the North Liberty Street location until

October 1931, when the Shattalon Drive children’s ward was repurposed for their care.

• 1939 • A bequest from the Bowman Gray Jr. Family provided for the construction of a

larger building for African American patients’ treatment at the new hospital campus.

Historic uses of the County Home/Farm Site• Known existing structures on site at the time of purchase:• Plunket Home used for the care of dependent and neglected children – Child Relief

Home (June 4, 1928)• Will Moore Home (December 5, 1932)• Various sheds, barns, and other unidentified buildings

• County Farm• Tuberculosis Hospital• Institutional Cemetery• Reformatory (December 3, 1928)• Prison (Convict) Camp for Whites (December 7, 1931)• Prison Barracks designed by local architect Hall Crews (September 19, 1929)

• Crib and Granary (January 5, 1931)• Asphalt Tank (September 6, 1932)• County Home for the Indigent and Infirm (January 15, 1936)• Six Car Garage and Storage Building (January 21, 1937)• County Laundry (1937)• Dairy Farm. (January 17, 1935)• Farm Demonstrations on 40 acres of land west of TB Hospital - including: truck

farming; fruit trees, grasses etc. planting that can be adapted to the County, animal and machine sales; and more. (February 11, 1933)

County Tuberculosis Sanitarium - 1928

County Tuberculosis Sanitarium - 1940

Forsyth County Home for the Indigent and Infirm was opened in 1937.

County Home for the Indigent and Infirm, 1942. This facility was later used for the Nature Science Center.

Site History• 1955 • State hospitals assumed the care of tuberculosis patients.

• 1955-1959 • the Shattalon Drive complex was vacant .

• 1959 • The complex was opened as a county-managed nursing home named

after Dr. Paul Yoder, the Tuberculosis hospital’s former director. • 1961 • The County leased the operation to Forsyth Home, Inc. and the

facility became known as Knollwood Hall. • 1970s • Forsyth Home, Inc. removed the original tuberculosis hospital

buildings.• 1975 • New complex constructed.

County Tuberculosis Sanitarium – 1960s

County Home Site

County Home Site

1951

Subject Site - 1951

North Forsyth High School and Subject Site - 1972

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