Special Collections & Archives

Stokes was a businessman in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a trustee of Wake Forest University.

This collection contains historical money no longer in circulation. Currently it includes Reichsbanknotes, circulated by Imperial Germany's central bank, Reichsbank (1876-1945), a Continental bill, and Confederate dollars of various denominations, circulated in the Confederate States of America (1861-1864). This collection requires the permission of the Special Collections and Archives director to be accessed; please contact Special Collections and Archives for more information.

College Heights Baptist Church began as College Heights Mission. This collection contains minutes of church conferences form March 31, 1965, while still a mission, to April 10, 1978 when the church was dissolved. Included with the records is a history of College Heights Mission and membership records for the period, 1965-1978.

The first conference was held at Concord in 1807, when it was a branch of Bulltail (now Wells Chapel Baptist Church). It continued with the same deacons and clerks until February 18, 1825 when it was constituted as a separate church, Elders Raphel, Fennell, and Stallings officiating. In 1835 twenty-four members were dismissed to Beaver Dam (now Magnolia). In 1853, thirty-two members were given letters of dismission in order that they might organize Carroll's Chapel (now Corinth). In April of 1866, the Corinth membership (after having dissolved their church) were received into Concord. In June they were granted their letters to re-organize Corinth again. This collection includes volumes 1 and 2 of the church minute book, a church letter, financial record, obituary, membership lists, and minutes.

Minutes of church conferences from Aug. 26, 1905 to Aug. 1924, including articles of faith, a church covenant, rules of decorum, resolutions, the formation of the church, building fund contributors (1907), and treasurer's reports (1923-24). Also a typescript copy.

Cabanis was a general merchant with a store in Franklin County, Virginia.

Coy C. Carpenter was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1922), professor of pathology (1926-1967), and Dean (1935-1963) and Vice President (1963-1967) at the WFU School of Medicine, then known as the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. His papers consists of biographical information, newspaper clippings, a copy of his book , and materials from his memorial service.

Coy C. Carpenter was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1922), professor of pathology (1926-1967), and Dean (1935-1963) and Vice President (1963-1967) at the WFU School of Medicine, then known as the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. This scrapbook contains clippings relating to Carpenter's career and involvement with Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

Photographs taken Sept. 21, 1892, in Raleigh, North Carolina of sections of the minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions of Craven County, North Carolina June 21, 1730, dealing with the appearance of William Fulsher, Frances Ayers, Nicholas Purifoy, and Lemuel Harvey before the court. These documents refer to the sale of land for a Baptist meeting house (1730) and petitions of New Bern Baptists for registration as Baptists (1740). [See G.W. Paschal's V6l. 1, pp. 186-195 for additional details.].