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The Cotton Company building historic renovation of an old cotton warehouse led to the entire downtown being put on the National Historic Registry.  Enjoy this video, video 6 of the History of Wake Forest video series, as Bob Johnson shows the Circa Building beautifully restored by Dino and Tina Radosta.

 This video presented by The Cotton Company highlighting the Wake Forest Downtown Historic district shows our local B & W Hardware store and the relic greeting as you enter. With Festival Park down the street. and strolling easy,  you can see why we are known as the "home of family friendly festivals" because of so much, so close by for all family members.

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​The Event Gallery is a unique, turn of the century, historic Cotton warehouse, with an active railroad directly behind it for added charm and appeal.   Watch this video on how it was renovated and some of the history of this nationally recognized, Anthemion Award for Architectural Preservation, historic birthday party idea for a venue. 

   
​If it's American made products and local art, local crafts, then look at this video featuring Cotton Company vendors who support the community. 

​Showcasing Local New Businesses @ The Cotton Company
New Cotton Company vendors bring new gifts, new ideas and local handmade crafted products.  

​ This short 1 minute video is a thumbnail of how to successfully sell your jewelry creations.  The Cotton Company provides everything you see here, plus so much more, to be successful as a custom jeweler in The Cotton Company.
    Our unique setting has resulted in several former jewelers opening their own jewelry shops after being at the Cotton Company and learning the tricks of retail as an artist.  

Video of the varied gifts for all season, all occasions, all people, available when you enjoy shopping again at The Cotton Company. 
The Cotton Company gift offerings are updated weekly in all seasons.

The Cotton Company Serves As A Business Incubator For The New Business Startup
    Today the national hue and cry is for the entrepreneurs of America to step up and create new jobs for an ailing economy.  So far there has been plenty of demand but few tangible acts to coincide with the cry.  Government does not create jobs.  It is only capable of new job creation when a sufficient volume of new businesses have been established to support the regulation of them.  The taxes generated, in theory, are suppose to provide the tax revenues to pay for the regulators.  Without the businesses there is no need to regulate, since nothing would be around to regulate.
  Unfortunately if the industry fails the regulatory jobs still exist but are paid for from "general funds" not industry specific funds.  Today the need is for private job creation simply to maintain the existing governmental regulatory bodies.

 It's not the buildings, it's not the beautiful homes and landscapes but it is the people who you share time with, you work and play with,  that make up what is the interesting history of any place.  Buildings are not historical, the people who were there are.

      Please enjoy the History of Wake Forest Video Series to acquaint each of us with where we are, who went before us, and how lucky we are to have had some good folks here. 

Home of Wake Forest College, First Female College Grads, Female Lawyers, & Female Medical Doctors And The Home Of Family Friendly Festivals

View the history and find out who won the first college football game in North Carolina as well as why did the first Wake Forest College Students Have To Bring a Rake and Hoe:

Downtown Renovations started! Visit BackFin's Crabhouse, Las Margaritas Mexican restaurant, and New York Italian Transplant, Mario Napolitano, owner of Creative Shears Hair Salon, who is also the chef for the annual ItaliaFest held at Festival Park, home of family friendly festivals.

​Now see the faux pas staining of the sidewalks in this video of the historic downtown shopping district, where many think they are walking on bricks, but it's the work of the local community beautifying their downtown.   Featuring Old Magnolia Trading Company and Shorty's Hot Dogs on the walk to The Cotton Company which makes shopping fun again.

 The Cotton Company building historic renovation of an old cotton warehouse led to the entire downtown being put on the National Historic Registry.  Enjoy this video, video 6 of the History of Wake Forest video series, as Bob Johnson shows the Circa Building beautifully restored by Dino and Tina Radosta.

   Beside The Cotton Company is what each historic district across America needed, a local hardware store.
     This video presented by The Cotton Company highlighting the Wake Forest Dowtown Historic district shows our local B & W Hardware store and the relic greeting as you enter.  With Festival Park down the street.  and strolliing easy,  you can see why we are known as the "home of family friendly festivals" because of so much, so close by,  for all family members.
   Enjoy.

 Welcome to my favorite video in the Wake Forest video series.   This is a fun video explaining the not so obvious reason the sprinkler system was installed originally in The Cotton Company.  Warning -  The immediate answer is not the right answer, but it's this historic trivia that helps the customer - Enjoy Shopping Again. 

Awards, Plaques and Famous People Come Together at The Cotton Company in Historic Wake Forest, Home of Family Friendly Festivals and A Great Community!!!

Watch this video about Arnold Palmer and Former Yankee Pitcher/ Wake Forest Mayor, Tommy Byrne, from the days of Mantle and Maris. 

CBS video on Wake Forest and Wake Forest College prior to onset of World War II. 
      Great video, but now you see why we are so proud to be the "home of family friendly festivals" rather than a German territory! Enjoy this neat video furnished by the Wake Forest Birthplace Museum.

Wake Forest Basketball Video - 1947 vs. UNC - Old Gore Gymnasium
It was called the Southern Conference prior to becoming the mighty and powerful Atlantic Coast Basketball Conference. This classic 1947 video of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. UNC Tarheels game at historic Gore gymnasium in the Town of Wake Forest.