NC Gazetteer

Bethania

A town in Forsyth County
… town in W Forsyth County on Muddy Creek. Settled 1759, inc. 1839, but no longer active in municipal affairs. Named by the Moravians, whose second or "new town" it was, for the biblical town of Bethany. Refugees during the French and Indian War found protection within the Bethania stockade, and many of them remained to build homes there. Alt. 789.