Special Collections & Archives

Flat Rock Baptist Church was constituted June 10, 1824. Items included in this collection are a list of pastors, church meeting minutes, church roll and records of attendance, and other church records.

Floyd Missionary Baptist Church was organized on July 4, 1954, with 23 charter members, after beginning as the Matrimony School in the early 1940s. Materials in this collection include an invitation, letters pertaining to the 50th anniversary celebration, and a 50th anniversary celebration booklet.

Forrest Smith was a Baptist pastor in North Carolina and Texas.

Prof. Forrest W. Clonts was a long-time member of the History faculty of Wake Forest College.

The Forsyth County (N.C.) Confederate Centennial Committee was created to coordinate the centennial celebration of the Civil War in Forsyth County from 1961 to 1965. Materials in this collection include the committee's correspondence and meeting materials, several magazines and booklets published during this time about the Civil War or the centennial celebration, and reports and letters. A scrapbook of the committee's work, containing news clippings, photographs, and related materials, is also present.

Foy Johnson Willingham Farmer was a Southern Baptist Convention missionary to Japan, 1911-1921; a Trustee of Meredith College, and a leader in the North Carolina and Southern Baptist Convention Woman's Missionary Union. Her papers consist of biographical files; correspondence; diaries; educational files of her first husband, Calder Truehart Willingham; financial documents; literary productions; literary productions of others as well as Japanese publications; prayer notebooks; Sunday School lessons; pictorial materials; professional files; and Japanese artifacts.

Francis Marion Jordan attended Wake Forest College, 1850-1852. He was a Baptist pastor and pioneer evangelist throughout the southeast. His papers consist of biographical data; correspondence, diaries (1875-1887); financial document; literary productions; and a photograph. This collection also contains a grade report of his daughter Susie from the Meredith Academy, 1911.

Frank Ross Campbell served as a Baptist minister in North Carolina and Virginia, as Vice President (1979-1981) and as President (1981-1983) of the Council on Christian Higher Education and Executive Committee of the General Board of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. His papers consists of correspondence, reports, and other materials relating to his Baptist State Convention activities and the establishment of the Wake Forest/Convention covenant relationship. Correspondence include , , , , , , , , and .

Dr. Frank Shirley was a professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre at Wake Forest College/University and Mayor of the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1970-1977. His papers contain biographical information, audio recordings, filmstrips, correspondence, his education files, financial files, literary productions, pictorial materials, research notes, scrapbook items, class notes, and roll books.

Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect as well as a writer. This collection contains two letters written in 1868 and 1869 by Olmsted to Henry Villard, Secretary of the American Social Science Association, regarding civil service reform and presentation topics.

Rev. Day was a jeweler in Winston-Salem, North Carolina by profession, and a Baptist pastor and evangelist in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. His papers consists of newspaper clippings on religious events, notebooks of baptisms, sermon outlines, and collections, with some family data.

This mill was located in Salem, North Carolina, now part of Winston-Salem. The collection consists of a typescript copy of a diary.