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What did downtown
WF look like?
The second meeting for the Wake Forest
Historical Association will be Sunday, Jan. 13, and will focus on Wake Forest’s
historic White Street downtown district.
Durward Matheny and John Wooten Jr.
will present the program from 3 to 5 p.m. in the courtroom at the Wake Forest
Police Department on East Owen Avenue.
There were once two grocery stores,
two drugstores, two locally-owned department stores, two hardware stores, two
car dealerships and two five-and-dime stores in downtown along with a number of
other businesses and services.
You could buy men’s suits, shirts and
ties as well as stylish women’s dresses and other clothing. You could go into
Edwards Pharmacy and Cola Matheny would fix you lemonade from a fresh-squeezed
lemon or mix you a chocolate soda. You could buy books and coal, have your car
washed or your clothes dry-cleaned, get your appliances repaired or buy new
ones, and indulge your love of antiques.
Matheny and Wooten will recreate some
of that time.
There will be a short business meeting
to organize the new association, which has been incorporated with nonprofit
status.
Those attending will be able to join
the association, which will have yearly dues of $10.
The association will have four
officers – president, vice president, secretary and treasurer – and five board
members. Those present at the January meeting will elect the officers.
According to the by-laws, the five board members will remain the same for 2008,
and elections to replace them will begin in 2009. The board members are Stella
Daniska, Suzanne Erskine, Durward Matheny, Carol Pelosi and Beverly Whisnant.
Ed Morris, executive director of the
Wake Forest College Birthplace Museum, will describe plans for the town exhibit
in the museum annex.
Everyone interested in Wake Forest
history is invited to attend this meeting. In the future, the association plans
to hold programs about the northeast area of town, the Harricane and
Forestville.
The Wake Forest Historical Association
was created this year as an education arm for the museum. Its goals are to
provide local history programs and collect town and local memorabilia for the
museum. It will meet four times a year.
For more information about the
association, e-mail Whisnant at bWhisnant@SEBTS.edu
or call Morris at 556-2911.
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