Steele was a dance manage at Salisbury and may have come on to Williamsburg with his partner, John McLelland, after Williamsburg was established. On June 11, 1819, a hall was located at John Howard's Assembly room. Other dance managers were H.G. Burton, Montford Stokes, and Thomas L. Cowan. During the U.S. Civil War, General George H. Stoneman came through Williamsburgh in April 1865, after burning the cotton and tobacco factories at nearby Eagle Mills. The mill at Turnersburg was not burned because the general and mill owner were both Masons. William Harbin gave the land where the tavern was located to form a church, Macedonia Methodist Church which continued to the 21st century. William Harbin was an early merchant of the community, operating an inn and became postmaster of Williamsburg on March 2, 1818. The name of the post office was changed to Williamsburgh after 1832. Jesse Fraley and his brother John A. Fraley had a general store in Williamsburg as early as 1842. Other pre-Civil War towns in this area included New Hope Forge (post office established in 1827) and Crater's Mill (post office established in 1851). A petition was signed by 114 women of this area in 1847 to establish a new county by the name of William and to have a county seat of government closer than Statesville or Wilkesboro, as well as establishing a female academy. These women were joined by 99 women from southern Wilkes County. These petitions were signed in 1848 and presented to the North Carolina General Assembly of 1848-1849. Supposedly the county seat was to have been Williamsburg. After the Civil War After the U.S. Civil War, the town of Williamsburg was overshadowed in Iredell County by the communities of Harmony and Union Grove. The post office in Williamsburg lasted until 1905. Eventually, the charter for the forgotten town of Williamsburg was repealed by the state legislature in 1971. Many attempts were made to bring a railroad through Williamsburg between the end of the U.S. Civil War and the beginning of World War I. James Cartwright, R. Lee Alexander and others worked to bring it about. The Airline Railroad was first surveyed through Williamsburg and later was pulled and stopped at the beginning of World War I, and was never resumed. A bus line was later operated by Alan Templeton and Moody White from Union Grove through Williamsburg to Statesville. Williamsburg School