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The Wolf Creek Community
Kate Lafever's Store in Wolf Creek (1976)
Laurel Hill was the name of the post office and the school, but the community was referred to as Wolf Creek.
East of Sligo was a Laurel School, so there was a Laurel Hill school and a Laurel School.
Wolf Creek had a Baptist Church and a Methodist Church. A colored school also existed in the Wolf Creek community.
Kinchen Exum owned the first mill in the Wolf Creek community around the time of the Civil War. He, along with his wife, Elizabeth and seven children were some of the earliest settlers.
In 1846, the Wolf Creek Baptist Church was established by the Salem Association as a Missionary Baptist church, and still exists to this day. Later, in the 1850's, Asbury Methodist Church was established, which became Carter's Chapel in 1885 and closed in the 1950's.
Noah Duke had a store in the Wolf Creek area through the 1920's and some may remember Kate Lafever's store, which remained open until just recently. Wolf Creek remains an active community today.
Isaac Burton (1818) had a number of descendents in the Wolf Creek area, along with the Loves (Loves Valley), Leagues (Riley).
The name of the Center Hill Dam came from the small school named Center Hill. Located in what is now Edgar Evins State Park, it was always considered a part of the Wolf Creek community.
In 1884, W.E. Bartlett gave land for a church in which the Baptists had priority for a week's protracted meeting every year. The log building was replaced by a frame one about 1910, and the church and school shared the building; there were as many as 50 pupils for the one-teacher. Plays were presented to the public, and a community Christmas tree was held in the times before people had Christmas trees in their homes.