Rolesville
One of Wake County’s oldest towns, built on solid rock.
Life in Rolesville
Rolesville sits between Wake Forest and Raleigh in northeastern Wake County, and the town pairs a small-town Main Street with newer neighborhoods, parks, and greenway trails that connect toward Wake Forest.
Rolesville highlights
Mill Bridge Nature Park
Greenway trails that connect with the Wake Forest greenway system, plus an amphitheater that seats about 200 people.
Main Street Park
A park in the center of town, with plans to link the park’s greenway paths to Mill Bridge Nature Park.
Redford Place Park and the Community Center
More room to play, gather, and take part in town programs.
A growing town
Rolesville counted 9,475 residents in the 2020 U.S. Census.
How Rolesville began
Rolesville takes its name from William H. Roles, who bought land in the area and settled here, and the North Carolina Legislature incorporated the town on January 18, 1837, more than forty years before Wake Forest was incorporated. After the charter, Rolesville became a stagecoach stop, and Rolesville Baptist Church was founded around the same time, with Roles playing a part.
The town also gave its name to the ground underneath it. Geologists call the large body of rock below this part of Wake County the Rolesville batholith, and the bedrock still breaks the surface in rocky outcrops inside the town limits and nearby.
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