Stokes County Courthouse in Danbury, North Carolina

Jun 18, 2016 Sat0

Laurie and I like riding our Gold Wing motorcycle. But it is easy to get into a rut and just ride the same roads. So to force ourselves to ride to places we would not normally visit we made a goal to visit and photograph all 100 North Carolina courthouses within 1 year.

As usual, we got a little behind. We started in July 2015 and finished 99 out of 100 by June 2018. The last courthouse was in our home county of Wake and it took us until Feb 2021 to get that final one. But we made it! This blog is about one of those visits.

Many NC courthouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The nomination form has some interesting facts about the various courthouse styles over the years.






Courthouse Information


says the following about the courthouse:

The Stokes County Courthouse in Danbury, North Carolina was designed by Wheeler & Runge in Classical Revival and Beaux Arts styles. It was built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The listing included three contributing buildings on 3.1 acres (1.3 ha).






County Information


The North Carolina History Project lists the following information for this county:

With Danbury as its county seat, Stokes County lies in the north Piedmont and adjacent to the Virginia border. The county was named after a Revolutionary Patriot, Captain John Stokes.

According to a 2004 survey, approximately 46,000 people lived in Stokes County. The county's major towns include Danbury and King. Before European settlers-mainly Scotch-Irish and Germans-arrived in what is now Stokes County, the Cheraw lived in the land. The soil is fertile, and the Dan and Yadkin rivers flow through the county.

Formed in 1789, the year the Fayetteville Convention ratified the U.S. Constitution, Stokes County was formed out of Surry County. Along its northern border lies the state of Virginia. The county's western, southern, and eastern borders are Surry, Forsyth, and Rockingham counties respectively. The first county seat was Germantown, and it remained so until Forsyth County was given that part of Stokes by the state legislature. In 1851, Crawford then became the hub of county governmental activities. In 1852, Crawford's name was changed to Danbury.

Stokes County has several historical and natural attractions. Historical attractions include Historic Danbury, Moratock Iron Furnace, The Rock House, and Sheppard's Mill. A visit to Hanging Rock State Park will satisfy those more interested in the area's natural beauty. Although the park in 2011 has grown to approximately 7,000 acres, the Park was formed in 1936, when non-profits, Committee for Stokes County Hanging Rock and the Winston-Salem Foundation, donated 3,096 acres to the state of North Carolina.






Our Experience


There is not much to this small town and things were quiet. We ate lunch across the street at Artist's Way Creations Bakery/Cafe. It did not look like much but the food was good and apparently they are a busy and well known bakery. I think we were told the bakery had won a couple of state wide competitions on the website The Knot.

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