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No, not on Capital. The section of homes on the west side of Falls of the Neuse. By the horse barn. Some of those houses are pretty far north and I think they fall in Wake Forest.
Most of Wakefield Plantation have a Raleigh address and the Wakefield estates (across the street where the barn Gregory Poole used to own) has a Wake Forest address.
I was born at Wakefield in 1959 when my grandfather owned it.......it is so hard to drive past it now and see all those people playing golf and hitting the barn with golf balls.......my mother always told me that the house was haunted or as she said " there was a haint that lived there". Many years after we moved away and it fell into dis-repair I went into the house and up to the attic......the whole time I was there I felt like I was being watched...........my mother said that there was a cold spot in the house that was not always in the same place.......we moved away in 1963 or 64 but I always came back to fish or hunt till it was sold to N. Hills.....
NEWSFLASH: Neighborhoods and subdivisions are often given fancy-sounding names by developers to increase the appeal while not necessarily having anything to do with the history or geography of the area.
See also: Bay Ridge in Durham. There's no bay, there's no ridge. Can residents sue for false advertising?
The Greg Poole family owned the 5000 acres or so before they sold to Dr. Goodnights lackeys. Do any on this board know who the Poole family is? Can you name the Poe's, the Williams, the Broughton's, the Finley's, the Eure's, the Winston's, the York's,
Wakefield plantation was a working plantation, where the horse stable is now was the main living area of the plantation. The Family that now owns the barn has many of the old pictures of the plantation it's some interesting history
What's more is that there was already a Wakefield area around Zebulon. It was more of a "crossroads" type thing, but I thought it odd that another area would call themselves Wakefield when one already existed down the street, so to speak.
A little background on the Wakefields community near Zebulon: That land was given as a grant to Peter G. Foster of Mathews Co. Virginia for his services in the Revolutionary War. Where the Fosters built it into a large plantation. Augustus John Foster, Peter's Grandson, was responsible for much of the growth. The Fosters would later relocate to the Ingleside area of Franklin County. Peter G. Foster is my g-g-g-g-grandfather.
Bill Harris
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