Report on the Built Landscape of the Original Campus
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Description
This report provides a historical study of the built landscape of the Calvin Jones Plantation and the early Wake Forest College campus in Wake Forest, North Carolina from the 1820s through the 1840s. The 23-page document describes the Calvin Jones Plantation in Wake Forest, N.C, purchased in 1832 by the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, and explains how Trustees, administrators, faculty, students, paid staff, and enslaved laborers adapted the plantation setting into an institution of higher learning.