Wake Forest is a town in Franklin and Wake counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina; located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. The population was 30,117 at the 2010 census, up from 12,588 at the 2000 census. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city's population to be 45,629 as of July 1, 2019. In 2007, the town was listed by Forbes magazine as the 20th fastest growing suburb in America, with a 73.2 percent increase in population between 2000 and 2006. Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.
Falls Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Durham and Wake Counties, North Carolina in the United States. Near Wake Forest, North Carolina, it covers 5,035 acres (20.38 km2) along the shores of 12,410-acre (50.2 km2) Falls Lake.
Horne Creek Farm is a historical farm near Pinnacle, Surry County, North Carolina. The farm is a North Carolina State Historic Site that belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and it is operated to depict farm life in the northwest Piedmont area c. 1900. The historic site includes the late 19th century Hauser Farmhouse, which has been furnished to reflect the 1900-1910 era, along with other supporting structures. The farm raised animal breeds that were common in the early 20th century. The site also includes the Southern Heritage Apple Orchard, which preserves about 800 trees of about 400 heritage apple varieties. A visitor center includes exhibits, a gift shop and offices.
Bertram Whittier (B.W.) Wells (1884–1978) was an American botanist and ecologist active in North Carolina. His most influential work was Natural Gardens of North Carolina (1932).
The Hood–Anderson Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Eagle Rock, Wake County, North Carolina, a suburb of the state capital Raleigh. The main house was built about 1839, and is an example of transitional Federal / Greek Revival style I-house. It is two stories with a low-pitched hip roof and a rear two-story, hipped-roof ell. The front facade features a large, one-story porch, built in 1917, supported by Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are the contributing combined general store and post office (1854), a one-room dwelling, a two-room tenant/slave house, a barn (1912), a smokehouse, and several other outbuildings and sites including a family cemetery.
The Heartsfield–Perry Farm is a historic home and farm located at Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite town of the state capital Raleigh. The original one-room house was built in the 1790s, with a Greek Revival style update made about 1840. It is a two-story house with two-story rear ell and one-story rear shed addition. It features a double-tier Greek-Revival-style—porch and low hipped roof. The interior of the house retains some Federal style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing detached kitchen, smokehouse / woodshed, privy, doctor's office, mule barn, pack house, horse barn, feed barn, two tobacco barns, the family cemetery, and the agricultural landscape.
Charles F. and Howard Cates Farm, also known as Swathmoor Farm, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 5 contributing structures on a farm near Mebane. The district includes the two-story double-pile Cates farmhouse and a collection of outbuildings and supporting structures. These include outbuildings probably associated with pickle manufacture such as the packhouse and the office (c. 1920); outbuildings associated with dairying including the multipurpose barn, the well house, and the milk barn ; and the mule barn, gas house, tool shed, pump house, privy, and chicken house. Its owner Charles F. Cates was instrumental in establishing the Woodlawn School.
Lexington Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 804 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Lexington. They were built between about 1854 and 1957, and include notable examples of Queen Anne and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The subdivisions in the district are Park Place, Robbins Heights, Courtenay, Rosemary Park, Hillcrest, Oak Crest, and Westover Heights; along with the Lexington City Cemetery. Notable buildings include Hillside (1854), Brookshire House (1900), Wennonah Mill houses (1910), N. Earl and Daphne Rose House, Charles M. and Jean Wall House, Parkview Apartments, Lexington Shirt Corporation Factory/Hulin Lumber Company, and Nicholson Supermarket.
Bracebridge Hall is a historic house and national historic district located near Macclesfield, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and three contributing structures associated with the Bracebridge Hall plantation complex. The original house was built about 1830–1832, and enlarged about 1835–1840, 1880–1881, and 1885. It is a two-story, five bay, weatherboarded frame dwelling with Greek Revival and Victorian style design elements. It features a one-story Doric order portico. Also on the property are the contributing Metal boiler/basin, Plantation Office, Servants’ House, Tobacco Barn, Troughs, Large Barn, Barn, Overseer's House, Carr Cemetery (1820), and the Agricultural landscape. Buried in the cemetery is North Carolina Governor Elias Carr (1839-1900).
John Henry Kapp Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Bethania, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures dated between about 1870 and 1942. They include a two-story, frame, vernacular I-house ; smokehouse; storage shed ; shop ; chicken house (1920s); corn crib / granary; barn (1870s); fence ; corn crib / granary ; tenant house ; tobacco pack house ; and the agricultural landscape.
Joseph Freeman Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Gates, Gates County, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures. The main house was built about 1821, and is a two-story, two-bay dwelling in a transitional Georgian / Federal style. A separate two-room kitchen/dining room ell was added about 1915. Associated with the house are the contributing smokehouse, privy, pump house, and domestic well. Contributing farm outbuildings include the lot well, equipment shelter, feed and livestock barn, and slave / tenant house.
Garner Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located near Days Crossroads, Halifax County, North Carolina. It encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site, the farm landscape. The farmhouse was built between 1900 and 1902, and is a "triple-A" I-house, three bays wide, with an original one-story rear ell. It has a gable roof with interior end chimneys and pedimented gable ends. The house was modernized in the 1940s. Also on the property is a contributing kitchen and packhouse.
Bryan–Bell Farm, also known as Oakview Plantation, is a historic plantation house and farm complex and national historic district located near Pollocksville, Jones County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures spread over seven areas. The main house was built about 1844 in the Federal style, and renovated in 1920 in the Classical Revival style. It is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, frame residence with a monumental portico with Corinthian order columns. Among the other contributing resources are the farm landscape, office (1920s), seven pack houses (1920s), equipment building, storage building, barn, two chicken houses, stable / carriage house, two garages, equipment shed, metal silo, hay barn, two tobacco barns, I-house, a log barn, a small plank building, farm house, and 19th century graveyard.
W. W. Griffin Farm is a historic home and farm located near Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1902, and built as a two-story, three bay, frame, I-house. It is sheathed in weatherboard siding and rests on a brick pier foundation. The house has a stylish front porch, one-story rear ell, and an additional room added about 1930. Also on the property is the contributing storage shed, corn crib, cotton barn, hay barn, brick well, and agricultural landscape.
Capt. John S. Pope Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex located near Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built between 1870 and 1874, and is a two-story, frame I-house with a one-story ell. It sits on a stone pier foundation, has a triple gable roof, and features stone gable end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing well house, washhouse, garage / smokehouse, flower house, two corn cribs, feed barn, tobacco ordering/stripping house, two curing barns, stick shed, five tobacco barns, a spring-fed well, workshop, a small log building, two wood sheds, and the surrounding agricultural landscape.
Machpelah, also known as Macpelah, McPelah, and the Robert B. Taylor Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Townsville, Vance County, North Carolina. The Edward O. Taylor House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped, vernacular frame dwelling with Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival details. Also on the property are the contributing single-story, timber-frame Greek Revival plantation office building ; oil house ; well ; salting house and dovecote; privy ; henhouse ; flower pit ; 1 1/2-story modest Colonial Revival style guesthouse (1954); five tenant houses ; feed house ; two stables ; corn crib ; two cemeteries; and the farm landscape.
Jesse Penny House and Outbuildings is a historic home and farm complex located near Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The Penny House was built in 1890, and enlarged in 1900. It is a two-story, single pile, frame I-house with a one-story rear addition. It features a hip-roofed wraparound porch. Also on the property are the contributing well house, barn/garage, barn, chicken house, and picket fence.
Carpenter Historic District is a national historic district located near Cary, Wake County, North Carolina. The districts encompasses 66 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 8 contributing structures in the rural crossroads community of Carpenter. The district developed between about 1895 and 1933, and includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Carpenter Farm Supply Company, D. Judson Clark Machine/Garage, Byrd-Ferrell House, Mallie and Cora Butts Farm, A.M. Howard Farm, and Barbee-Williams Farm.
Henry H. and Bettie S. Knight Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located near Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings on a family farm located near Knightdale. The farmhouse was built around 1890, and is a 1 1/2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a cross-gable roof and a series of later additions and alterations. The other contributing buildings are the dairy, storage building, storage shed, and two barns.
Isiah Mansur Farmstead Historic District, also known as Rock Hall, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Richmond, Ray County, Missouri. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures on a farm developed between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The contributing resources include the main farmhouse, a buggy house, a large barn, an engine house (c.1900), a small barn, a brooder house, a hen house, a smokehouse, a house well, a field well, and a wellhouse. The main farmhouse is a two-story, five bay, frame I-house.
