NC Gazetteer

Waughtown

Also known as: Charleston, Charlestown
A former community in Forsyth County
… former town in S Forsyth County; inc. 1891. First called Charlestown or Charleston for Charles Bagge, who first settled there and opened a store. When the store was sold to James Waugh, the scattered settlement surrounding it came to be called Waugh's Store or Waughtown. Post office was Waughtown by 1828. Now within the corporate limits of Winston-Salem.