(A chance meeting reminded us again that in our growing town new residents do not know the history of the area, Wake Forest College, and the town which grew up around it. This and future historical articles are one effort to fill that gap; the editor also urges all area residents to visit the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street which has wonderful exhibits about the college, the town and the area.) It was the 1932, the great Depression stalked the land, there was little work at local cotton mills and the price for cotton had hit bottom. The town commissioners had asked the Wake Forest College trustees to help with two great needs. The first plea was, “owing to the second local bank failure and the long discontinuance of work in industry here” to allow 20 young women who had just graduated from high school to enroll

Update: Wake Forest’s growth is going east and south, and the next subdivision may be called Tryon south of Oak Grove Church Road along Copper Beech Lane, which is now just a dirt road. Priest, Craven and Associates will be applying for GR10 (CD) zoning for the 131.49 acres (now apparently in four separate parcels) where an unnamed developer proposes to locate 287 single-family lots and 126 townhouses on what appears to be land fairly well cut up with small streams. The project was reviewed by the Wake Forest Planning Department’s Technical Review Committee on Feb. 20. The committee also reviewed plans for a 19,380-square-foot addition to Wake Forest Baptist Church at South Avenue and Front Street and a rezoning and master subdivision plan request for Phase 7 of the Stonegate subdivision, which will add 71 single-family lots along Greenville Loop Road. **A Sam’s Club will probably be built soon

If the weather stops its manic cycles of winter/spring/winter/spring with balmy afternoons one day, ice on all the trees two days later, we might, just might be able to celebrate Arbor Day in Wake Forest on Saturday, March 22. It has always been a pretty big deal. We have always planted trees, for years this was a bird sanctuary, and we still have a healthy tree canopy in town, according to a recent tree survey. This will also be the 35th consecutive year the town has been designated as a Tree City USA. So we hope to have sunshine and bird song and lots of town residents at E. Carroll Joyner Park Saturday. The day will begin with a Tree Seedling Giveaway and Arbor Day Expo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the Arbor Day ceremony at 11 am. During the tree seedling giveaway, Urban Forestry Board (UFB) members,

The War of 1812 is one of America’s forgotten wars, remembered mostly because in 1814 the British, who had already burned the president’s house (the name White House came later) and much of official Washington, D.C., was repulsed at Fort McHenry near Baltimore, leading Francis Scott Key to write the verses to The Star-Spangled Banner. Saturday, March 29, we can learn a lot more about it when the official North Carolina Bicentennial War of 1812 Reenactors muster at an encampment on the grounds of the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street with their knapsacks, muskets, tents and cannons and invite everyone to come listen to their stories, see how their fire their weapons and experience a bit of war 200 years ago. It is all free and open to everyone. There will be a battle reenactment that will also mark the 239th birthday of Dr. Calvin Jones and

(A chance meeting reminded us again that in our growing town new residents do not know the history of the area, Wake Forest College, and the town which grew up around it. This and future historical articles are one effort to fill that gap; the editor also urges all area residents to visit the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street which has wonderful exhibits about the college, the town and the area.) It was the 1932, the great Depression stalked the land, there was little work at local cotton mills and the price for cotton had hit bottom. The town commissioners had asked the Wake Forest College trustees to help with two great needs. The first plea was, “owing to the second local bank failure and the long discontinuance of work in industry here” to allow 20 young women who had just graduated from high school to enroll