Description Wake Forest Township got its start in 1834 when Calvin Jones sold his farmland to the North Carolina Baptist State Convention.
The college began as a place for local boys to trade manual labor for a religious education.
But the campus soon grew and so did the community, surpassing any other neighborhood in refinement, good society, and wealth, according to one 19th-century account.
By 1909, the town was incorporated.
Not long after, with transformers trucked in from Raleigh, residents could read newspaper headlines touting Wake Forest s fame in sports, academics, and medicine by the glow of the town s new electric lights.
For a time, the town and college seemed inseparable.
But by 1956, the school had moved to Winston-Salem, dealing a devastating blow to local residents.
For many years afterward, they waited for the world to rediscover Wake Forest.
It seems that day has come.
Arcadia Publishing (sc) Wake forest/jennifer smart
