Old Town (or Oldtown) is a former

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

North Carolina North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...

which was

annexed Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held to ...

Winston-Salem Winston-Salem is a city in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the fifth-most populous city in North Carolina and the 91st-most populous city in the Uni ...

. It was located near Bethania, Tobaccoville, and Pfafftown along NC 67. The name now refers to a neighborhood that occupies the former unincorporated community limits.

Commercial development

The Old Town Center, a shopping center which opened in the second quarter of the 1960s, has had an increase of development over the years. It includes national retail establishments and restaurants Other non-local establishments are also featured at the shopping center.

Neighborhood facilities

Old Town Park and its Neighborhood Center is south of the neighborhood towards Pfafftown. The Old Town Community Center offers dance sessions for

clogging Clogging, buck dancing, or flatfoot dancing is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythm ...

and

line dancing A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows. These lines usually face all in the same direction, or less commonly face each other.Knight, ...

. Old Town Elementary School celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2024. And Vienna Elementry School in 2023

References

Annexed places in North Carolina Geography of Forsyth County, North Carolina Geography of Winston-Salem, North Carolina Former populated places in North Carolina {{ForsythCountyNC-geo-stub