Wake Forest Town, Wake County, North Carolina (NC)

Wake Forest Town

Wake County, North Carolina

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Wake Forest Town Hall is located at 301 South Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
Phone: 919‑435‑9400.

Neighborhoods

  • Glen Royall Mill Village Historic District
  • Prestwicke
  • Wake Forest Historic District
  • A Country Place
  • Archers Forest
  • Arnold
  • Austin Creek
  • Avondale
  • Back Nine Estates
  • Barham Crossing
  • Bennett Park
  • Bent Place
  • Bishops Grant
  • Blackstone Meadows
  • Bold Run
  • Bowling Green
  • Brewers Glynn
  • Brook Hollow
  • Buckeyes Way
  • Buckhorn
  • Burlington
  • Caddell Woods
  • Cardinal Hills
  • Carriage Run
  • Caudle Woods
  • Cedar Falls
  • Cedar Knoll
  • Chartwell
  • Chaunceys
  • Chesleigh
  • Chesterfield Village
  • Cimarron
  • Clear Springs
  • Clement Oaks
  • Country Club Downs
  • Covington Ridge
  • Creekwood
  • Crenshaw Hall Estates
  • Crenshaw Hall Plantation
  • Crenshaw Manor
  • Dacus Place
  • Dansforth
  • Deacons Ridge
  • Deer Chase
  • Devonshire
  • Drayton Reserve
  • Edgeford Park
  • Ellington Estates
  • Evans Ridge
  • Fairlake
  • Fairway Villas
  • Faringdon
  • Fieldstone
  • Fieldstream
  • Flaherty Farms
  • Forest Point
  • Galloway
  • Glenmoor
  • Greycliff
  • Hasentree
  • Hawkshead
  • Heath Ridge
  • Heritage Heights
  • Heritage Meadows
  • Heritage Pointe
  • Heritage Wake Forest
  • High Meadows
  • Highgate Circle
  • Highgate Park
  • Hillcrest Farm
  • Holding Ridge
  • Horsecreek
  • Horseshoe Bend
  • Jenkins Run
  • Juniper
  • Keighley Forest
  • Kelsey
  • Kensington Manor
  • Kenwood Estates
  • Kenwood Reserve
  • Kimmon Place
  • Kings Glen
  • Kings Manor
  • La Ventana
  • Lake Ridge
  • Lakefall
  • Lakeside at Stonegate
  • Magnolia Woods
  • Majestic Oaks
  • Mangum Estates
  • Margate
  • Margots Pond
  • Marshall Landing
  • Matherly
  • Millrace
  • Mitchells Ridge
  • Moss Creek
  • Neuse Trails
  • New Forest
  • New Light Creek
  • North Chartwell Trace
  • Northampton
  • Oak Grove Crossings
  • Oakwood Estates
  • Old Farm Crossing
  • Old Keith
  • Olde Chestnut Townes
  • Olde Mill Stream
  • Osborne
  • Oxford Ridge
  • Paddstowe
  • Pageland
  • Pemberley
  • Pineview
  • Porto Fino
  • Remington Woods
  • Reynolds Mill
  • Richland Hills
  • Richlands of Staffordshire
  • Ripple Creek
  • River Mill
  • Riverstone
  • Saddle Run
  • Saint Andrews Plantation
  • Saint Ives Estates
  • Sandy Woods
  • Sedgefield Park
  • Shearon Farms
  • Sherron Farms
  • Shore Line Estates
  • Silo Glen
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Smith Creek
  • Somerset
  • Spring Park
  • Springwood Acres
  • Staffordshire
  • Stonegate at Saint Andrews
  • Stony Bend
  • Strathaven
  • Sunset Manor
  • Sutherland
  • Swans Cove
  • Tarlton Park
  • The Falls
  • The Meadows
  • The Mews at Legacy Greene
  • The Preserve at Smith Creek
  • The Registry at Bennett Park
  • The Reserve
  • Thornburg Ridge
  • Thornrose
  • Traditons West
  • Traylee
  • Tuckahoe
  • Twin Creeks
  • Tyler Run
  • Villas of Wake Forest
  • Wakefield
  • Wallridge
  • Waterfall Plantation
  • Waters Edge
  • Whippoorwill Valley
  • Windemere
  • Woodland Creek Estates
  • Woodlief Village
  • Woods Crossing

The Town of Wake Forest was incorporated in 1880. Wake Forest is arguably best known as the namesake of Wake Forest College/University.

Dr. Calvin Jones owned a large plantation here and was named postmaster in 1823. The area had been designated as The Forest District, in 1805 due to the large forest spread north of the Neuse River. The area was also referred to as the Forest of Wake, and Dr. Jones combined the two in naming the post office. [1]

Wake Forest College, founded in 1834 on the northeastern Wake County plantation of Dr. Calvin Jones, was the first institution of higher learning in Wake County. Originally known as the Wake Forest Institute, the college required early students, who were studying for the Baptist ministry, to work on the school's farms as well as take classes. Hillsborough builder John Berry erected a four-story brick main building and two brick faculty houses in 1835, only one of which, the South Brick House, survives. Wake Forest College remained in the Town of Wake Forest until 1956, when it was moved to Winston-Salem and became Wake Forest University; the campus is now used by the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. [2]

  1. Town of Wake Forest, www.wakeforestnc.gov, accessed March, 2011.
  2. Kelly A. Lally and Todd Johnson, Wake County Planning Department, Historic and Architectural Resources of Wake County North Carolina (ca. 1770-1941), nomination document, 1993, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.

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