A highlight of the historic community is Winfall Landing Park featuring a waterfront boardwalk and picnic and playground area.
Folklore has it that the first building built in the town today known as Winfall fell over during a windstorm and that event changed the name of the community “RedHouse Fork” to Windfall, soon dropping the “D” and becomingWinfall. Winfall is found at a junction where roads from Hertford and Parkvillemeet the road from Woodville to Belvidere.
Winfall was the busiest cross roads in Perquimans County before the bridge crossed the Perquimans River. Winfall was the commercial centerfor people on the north side of the river. Even before the Civil War, thecommunity had developed as a commercial area. In 1873 a post office wasestablished for Winfall with Josiah H. White as its postmaster.
A highlight ofthe Winfall Historic District is the Winfall Post Office, built in the 1890s and known as “Big Store. This former general store contains sawn workfeatures and appears much as it originally did and provides a picturesque focalpoint to this crossroads community.
On March 7, 1887 Winfall was incorporated as a town. A.S. Jordan was appointed as the firstMayor and serving on the town Council were Josiah H. White, Watson Winslow, and R.H. Kirby. The original boundaries of Winfall were the perimeter of a circleof 1/4 mile radius having for its center the intersection of the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the county road. At the center of this town stood the train station.
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