Will's Forest: Raleigh park holds clues to historic legend of shipwrecked man freed from slavery
When you see references in Raleigh to 'Will's Forest,' it refers to a story that appears in multiple accounts from the 1800s. In the story, Joel Lane rescued two enslaved men, possibly victims of a ship wreck, and is said to have given them a cabin on the corner of his land. But how much of this story is history -- and how much is legend?
Heather Leah, multi-platform producer