Special Collections & Archives

Nathan Taylor Dodson was a professor of Physical Education at Wake Forest University (1957-1969). His papers contain biographical information; educational files; publications (books and articles); general files; and subject files relating to his activities as an advisor to the N.C. State Board of Education and State Department of Education; his work as a physical education professor at Wake Forest University; and his activities as a Vice President for physical education in the American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and its Southern Division; the N.C. Recreation Commission and Society; and the Society of State Directors of Physical Education.

Contains 14 items collected for Cobb's biographical sketch, and the finished sketch. Also included is a pastor's handbook, published in 1858.

N.Y. Gulley was a graduate of Wake Forest College (1879) and dean of the Wake Forest Law School from 1895 to 1935.

New Bethel Baptist Church in Henderson, N.C., was constituted on Septemeber 21, 1873. It is a member of the Cullom Baptist Association. The collection includes church minutes, membership records, and supporting documents.

New Life Baptist Church was organized on October 28, 1888. This collection includes church minutes, membership records, church history, newspaper clippings, and organizational records.

The records consist of minutes of church conferences from June 8, 1811 to April 12, 1834, and from January 12, 1850 to October 9, 1920; a membership book, 1887-1902; and miscellaneous records, 1903-1916 [broken series].

New Salem Baptist Church was founded in 1848 in Skyland, N.C. (Buncombe County). The church is a member of the Buncombe Baptist Association. This volume contains membership rolls, meeting minutes of Union Baptist Church, and activity records of Union Baptist Church, meeting minutes of New Salem Baptist Church, and a financial record.

This collection contains newspapers dated circa 1805-1877 from several Southern states as well as Pennsylvania. Many are fragments and not complete papers.

Historical materials collected by Dr. Ellen Tabor from the organization of the North Carolina Baptist Nursing Fellowship, 1983 to 1986. Includes photocopies of correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, newsletters and other materials.

The collection consists of interviews with former North Carolina governors, conducted by Jack Fleer for Wake Forest University and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The governors interviewed are Terry Sanford; James E. Holshouser, Jr.; Robert Scott; James G. Martin; and James Hunt.

The Norwood family attended Wake Forest College and were bankers in the years leading up to and the years after the Bank Holiday of 1933. Their papers consist of biographical data; photocopies of articles and notes about the family; and printed materials as compiled by Charles Stephens Norwood for the purpose of making a family album.