Lawn Care Services in Wake Forest, NC

Wake Forest is a town located in both Franklin and Wake counties in the state of North Carolina. Located nearly entirely in Wake County, the town lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. The population of the town was 30,117 during the 2010 census, which was up from 12,588 at the 2000 census. The United

states Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 34,752 on July 1, 2013. In 2007, Forbes magazine listed Wake Forest as the 20th quickest growing suburb in America. With a whooping 73.2 percent increase between 2000 and 2006. Before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956, Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years.

The US Office of Management and Budget also considers Wake Forest to be a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area. This area has a population of 1,998,808 as of US Census 2012 Population Estimates. As of June 6, 2003 the Office of Management and Budget changed the Federal Statistical Areas.

It dismantled what was for decades the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill. This was done by splitting them into two separate MSAs despite the fact the region still functions as one metropolitan area.

In 1832, Dr. Calvin Jones, who was originally from New England, bought 615 acres of land in Wake County, North Carolina. The once sparsely populated area became known as “Forest of Wake”, or Wake Forest. Jones then sold his farm to the NC Baptist Convention for only $2,000. They opened the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, and latter Wake Forest College, on the location. The Raleigh & Gaston Railroad was completed in 1840. It established a depot in nearby Forestville which quickly stimulated growth of the school and surrounding village. The leaders of the college convinced the railroad to move the train depot closer to the college in 1874.

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