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:

    “What so soon will wake and grow
    Utterly unlike the snow.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “I was struck by this universal spring upward of the forest evergreens.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)