Projects – CHARG

Preservation Forsyth and the Unmarked Initiative Research Grant Received

Leave a Comment / News, Partners, Projects / Terry Brock

Last Spring, CHARG and Preservation Forsyth submitted a Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant with the City of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission to begin the research component of the Unmarked Initiative, Preservation Forsyth’s effort to raise awareness and document every African American cemetery in Forsyth County. CHARG worked with a Wake Forest University student, Christian […]

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CHARG Receives Preservation Grant!

News, Projects / Terry Brock

We are very excited to announce the receipt of a Preservation Grant from the North Carolina Preservation Consortium. The funding will go towards the Ailey Young Digitization Project, specifically to support our work conducting photogrammetry of the house. The Ailey Young House Digitization Project is part of our collaboration with the Town of Wake Forest

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The Ailey Young House Digitization Project

Leave a Comment / Projects, Uncategorized / Terry Brock

One of the projects that I am most intrigued about is the Town of Wake Forest’s restoration and interpretation of the Ailey Young House. The building is an architectural gem: a saddlebag style, two family structure with an exposed central chimney, standing 1.5 stories tall on dry-laid stone piers. The earliest date determined so far

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“You Are Here”: A Mapping Exhibit at Wake Forest Historical Museum

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CHARG is partnering with The Wake Forest Historical Museum this spring to provide support in digitizing and georeferencing historical maps of the Town of Wake Forest and the original Wake Forest College Campus. This post is written by Dr. Sarah Soleim, WFHM’s Manager of Community and Academic Learning. The exhibit is funded by North Carolina Humanities through an American Rescue Plan Humanities Project Support Grant.

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