Helpful Links
- Wake County Real Estate Data
- https://services.wake.gov/realestate/
Data is for current owner only but does show chain of past owners.
- https://services.wake.gov/realestate/
- Wake County Register of Deeds
- https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/register-deeds/recording-and-real-estate/
Contains the images of the actual deeds recorded. Can also look up maps, easements, deeds of trust, agreements, etc.
- https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/register-deeds/recording-and-real-estate/
- Maps
- Maps.raleighnc.gov
Google Earth for aerial view. Also shows changes over time.
- Maps.raleighnc.gov
- Census
- https://www.archives.gov/research/census/online-resources
Local Census data – lives of previous owners, like the number of children in the house, cost of the home, whether the home had a radio, race, ability to read & write.
- https://www.archives.gov/research/census/online-resources
- Zebuon City Directory
- Not online, but can find at NC Archives, Olivia Raney Library.
A precursor to the modern phone book – info about businesses & owners over time.
- Not online, but can find at NC Archives, Olivia Raney Library.
- Sanborn Fire Maps
- Sanborn maps developed in 19th Century to determine fire insurance. In Zebulon, available for 1923 and in 1944.
- Newspapers
- Zebulon Record – digitized from 1925 to 1956.
- Newspapers.com
Has links to Raleigh-based papers. - Gold Leaf Farmer archive (Wendell)
Compiled by MaryBeth Carpenter and Season Atkinson