Phase One Architectural Survey Update of the Unincorporated Portions of Southwest Forsyth County, the Town of Lewisville, and the Village of Clemmons, North Carolina

Fearnbach, Heather

"The area included in the 2019 survey update was last documented in 2007. Historic resource loss escalated in the 2010s as the economy strengthened and suburban development resumed following the 2008 recession. United States Census Bureau estimates indicate that much of the survey area experienced from five to fifty percent population growth between 2010 and 2017. Far fewer acres and human resources are now devoted to agriculture. In 2017, 304 of the 557 remaining Forsyth County farms encompassed between ten and forty-nine acres, while 144 contained between fifty and one-hundred-seventy-nine acres. Less than one percent of the county's population - 908 individuals - worked in the agricultural sector. In many cases, new-growth trees have overtaken once-cultivated fields. In others, subdivisions and shopping centers supplanted farms and rural domestic complexes. Building renovation and demolition, road realignment, and residential, commercial, and industrial development are ongoing. Within this period of exceptional change, myriad publicly and privately funded endeavors are attempting to balance responsible growth with protecting the historic resources that impart the community's intrinsic character. ...As previously mentioned, the survey update's scope entailed verifying the status of previously surveyed resources and identifying significant properties and neighborhoods erected and developed between 1930 and 1970. The principal investigator interviewed property owners and other knowledgeable local informants and conducted as much research as possible within the project budget. However, additional oral history collection and primary source research is necessary to provide a comprehensive historical context and to illuminate individual resource histories. The City-County Planning Department will continue to work with the Clemmons and Lewisville historical societies to collect information..." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, Office of Archives and History, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P18AF00042).

Phase One Architectural Survey Update of the Unincorporated Portions of Southwest Forsyth County, the Town of Lewisville, and the Village of Clemmons, North Carolina

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