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​Upcoming Wake County Historical Society Events

December 16, 2024

Moving a whole house: Preservation in Cary

Is that a whole house driving down the street?  Join us as we host Carla Matthews and Peggy Van Scoyoc, Board Members with the Friends of Page-Walker, Cary’s historical society

February 24, 2025

On the Arrival of General Lafayette

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.

March 24, 2025

Service, Sacrifice, and Heritage: Creating the NC National Guard Museum

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.