This is a guest post from WCGS member and recording secretary, Linda Hames. This post originaly was published in the Wake Genealogy Watch newsletter, v5.4, Summer 2022. “ The history of Method became a fascination for me in May, 2019, and I still have a long list of places and events yet to be explored.”   - Linda Hames Historic Method Community and Oak Grove Cemetery - Then and Now In 1865, virtually all of what is now Wake County was made up of farms or plantations, depending on the definitions used.   Before the war, in 1860, North Carolina had 331,159 persons who were “owned” by other persons.   Most of them were farm workers.   In 1865, they were freed, and they soon began to form Freeman’s Villages.   Those who could afford to do so, moved into the city where the population grew rapidly.  In the Raleigh 1870 census, out of a population of 7,790, there were 4,094 Blacks (53%). Maps and other records show us the location of at least 13 new Blac...