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UNC-Chapel Hill's library system includes a number of individual libraries housed throughout the campus and holds more than 7.0 million volumes in total. [129] UNC-Chapel Hill's North Carolina Collection (NCC) is the largest and most comprehensive collection of holdings about any single state nationwide. [130]
The Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle, are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.Anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, the region is home to three major research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
Kenan Memorial Stadium. Kenan Stadium (formerly Kenan Memorial Stadium and commonly known as Kenan) is a college football stadium located on Stadium Drive in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Opened in 1927, it is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 's (UNC) football team, which competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
During the Great Depression, the North Carolina General Assembly searched for cost savings within state government. Towards this effort in 1931, it redefined the University of North Carolina, which at the time referred exclusively to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the new Consolidated University of North Carolina was created to include the existing campuses of University of ...
Old East. Old East is a residence hall located at the north part of campus in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Built in 1793 by slave labor, it became the first state university building in the United States. [2] The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, was built in 1695, but William and Mary did ...
The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
UNC Bell Tower, 2007. Chapel Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 46 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects on the central campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and surrounding residential sections of Chapel Hill.
Built. 1927–1929. Website. Wilson Library. The Louis Round Wilson Library is a library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] Completed in 1929, it served as the university's main library until 1984. Today, it houses several special collections. The dome rises 85 feet over the university's South Quadrangle.