Events

Join us on 24 February 2025 in the classroom at the Mordecai Park Visitors Center, 1101 Wake Forest Road in Raleigh, as we celebrate the Bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette’s return visit to America with historian Jonathan Underwood as he introduces us to the Marquis and walks us through his stay in North Carolina and the events that surrounded his visit.

Did you know that the National Guard in North Carolina is renovating a building on Blue Ridge Road to serve as a museum? Join us on 24 March 2025 at the Mordecai Visitors Center Classroom, 1101 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, for a discussion with SSG Gary C Spencer as they talk about the NC NG’s work to retrofit a former State office building into an interactive museum that traces the development of the National Guard in North Carolina.

Join the Wake County Historical Society for our Annual Business Meeting and Program on Monday, 2 June 2025 at 7.00 PM, in the classroom at the Mordecai Park Visitors Center, 1101 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. After a brief business meeting including a summation of our programs and activities for the 2024-2025 year, we will have a dessert reception and then our featured program.

We are very excited to present a program by Ashley Talley, Enterprise Executive Producer at WRAL TV. Ashley will be presenting on the WPA Slave Narrative program from the 1930s and how she and a team of journalists at WRAL used Ancestry.com, public records, and modern people-finding tools to connect with descendants in Wake County and brought them stories and information about their ancestors, some of which had not been shared before.