Roaring through the 1920s
100 years of history The 1920 Census found that more people lived in towns than on farms for the first time in the nation’s history. In that year, Prohibition began and women won the right to vote. There was prosperity, but agricultural prices were falling. As the decade progressed, there was the Teapot Dome scandal, the Scopes trial in Tennessee and Ford roadsters selling for $260, while the bootlegging industry was estimated at $3.6 billion. Henry Ford revolutionized the workweek, introducing the eight-hour day and five-day week. The mechanical cotton picker was invented, Mount Rushmore was begun and Lindbergh flew to Paris. It was a dizzy time for the stock market and for the economy across the nation. In Wake Forest, the local economy centered on Royall Cotton Mill just outside the town limits to the north, the college on its central campus and the farmers all around town. There