A new exhibit at the Wake Forest Historical Museum will be unveiled Thursday, March 3, at 3:30 p.m., and everyone is invited to see “Wake Forest’s Historical Cemeteries” in the back lobby. One featured cemetery is the very old and nearly buried Friendship Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery and the other is better known and still used, the Wake Forest Cemetery.
The exhibit was the brainchild of Wake Forest resident Carol Paulonis, researched and searched the Friendship Chapel cemetery in the woods behind what was housing for workers on Holding dairy farm. There are some gravestones there dating to 1929 and some earlier years but many of the graves are unmarked. Paulonis also underwrote the staging of the exhibit.
There will be a short ceremony at 3:30 p.m. on March 3 as well as light refreshments. The museum is at 414 North Main Street behind the Calvin Jones House. Parking is available both in front and behind of the museum.
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Wish I was there to celebrate all the ROYALLS buried in the WF Cemetery! Good luck with the exhibit!! Maggie McClure