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Wake Forest Baseball Visits Odd Fellows Cemetery for Leadership Tour and Cleanup

This past Sunday, the Wake Forest University varsity baseball team visited Historic Odd Fellows Cemetery for the third consecutive year. With support from a Leadership and Character Departmental Grant received last spring, the team helped clear brush and overgrowth from the 13-acre cemetery and participated in a redesigned tour exploring its history through the lens

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Wake Forest Baseball team works to clear brush at Odd Fellows Cemetery.

CHARG Receives NCHumanities Grant!

Partners, Projects, Uncategorized / Terry Brock

This week, it was announced that The Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Research Group at Wake Forest University has received a $20,000 Large Project Grant from North Carolina Humanities to support the mapping project at Historic Odd Fellows Cemetery in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The grant will support Wake Forest students in carrying out the mapping

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A Week at Montpelier

Partners, Programs, Uncategorized / Terry Brock

This summer, Wake Forest Students visited Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison and over 300 enslaved Black laborers and families.

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The Africatown Cemetery Project

Uncategorized / Terry Brock

This spring and summer, CHARG is working with Dr. Alexandra Jones of Archaeology in the Community on a community project in Mobile, Alabama. The project is part of an ongoing effort to document the cemetery at Africatown, a unique community in Mobile that was founded by a group of formerly enslaved Africans who had been

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Fieldwork Fridays at Odd Fellows Cemetery

Uncategorized / Terry Brock

Over the past year, CHARG has been working with the Friends of Odd Fellows Cemetery to support their efforts to reclaim the cemetery from decades of overgrowth and neglect. The Cemetery covers 10 acres of land in Winston-Salem, and is only a stone’s throw away from Wake Forest University’s campus, just behind the fairgrounds. Founded

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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

Leave a Comment / Partners, Projects, Uncategorized / Sarah Soleim

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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Wake Forest University Archaeology Program at James Madison’s Montpelier!

Programs, Uncategorized / Terry Brock

This spring, CHARG is excited to announce a unique opportunity for members of the Lifelong Learning Community to participate in archaeological excavations at James Madison’s Montpelier – the historic home of President James Madison, father of the US Constitution, the 1st First Lady, Dolley Madison, and the over 300 individuals enslaved by the Madisons and

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