Wake Forest

Wake Forest may refer to:

  • Wake Forest, North Carolina, a town near Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Wake Forest University, a university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Wake Forest, name of the plantation owned by Calvin Jones (physician) that became the first home of Wake Forest University
  • Demon Deacons, athletic teams from Wake Forest University

Famous quotes containing the words wake and/or forest:

    “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
    What hours, O what black hours we have spent
    This night!”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many
    merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin
    Hood of England.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)