Documentary History of American Water-works

Danbury

Danbury, North Carolina

Danbury was founded in 1851.

The Danbury Hydraulic Company was incorporated in 1855 by Wilson Fulton, S. H. Taylor, Nathaniel Moody and John Pepper "for the purpose of supplying the town of Danbury, in the county of Stokes, with water." Nathaniel Moody owned the local tavern and delivered water to it through underground wooden pipes that same year. No other information about this system has been found.

Stokes County acquired the Danbury water system in 1978, which it leased to the town for operation by contractors. The Stokes County Water Sewer Authority was formed in 1997 and assumed full responsibility for the water in Dansbury in 2008. .

Water is supplied by the Stokes County Water Sewer Authority.

References
1855 An act to incorporate the Danbury Hydraulic Company. February 16, 1855.

1981 The Heritage of Stokes County, North Carolina 1981, Charman/Editor John R. Woodard
Page 86: First Waterworks. Now that the town could boast of an academy, it was ready for Nathaniel Moody. Mr. Moody was a man of vision and by 1954 had purchased the lot on the corner west of the courthouse and built an inn. It is said he installed the first waterworks in the county by running the water from a mountain spring through underground wooden pipes to the inn. Moody offered hospitality until his death in 1864.
Page 88: In 1921 Danbury's water system was installed and water piped from a spring in the mountains to the homes and public buildings in town. Even though the townspeople no longer had to rely on their own well, old habits die hard. Many old timers kept their private water supplies operable, not trusting newfangled inventions that brought water into their homes via pipes.

2013 "Danbury, N.C., successfully gambles on ice pigging to clean its distribution pipes and solve water quality problems," by Peter Kenter, Municipal Sewer and Water, November, 2013.
The water system is only 40 years old and was acquired by Stokes County in 1978 and leased to the town. Contractors operated the system until 2008, when the county assumed full responsibility for its operation.