Is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our city tour visits. Today, we are on the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill, the First State University in the country. This is a contested claim that we argue with chartered first, chartered in 1785. Was first to open and had already graduated a couple of classes for the university of georgia. The university and the city were founded at the same time. Selected,area was there was no town or village. Farms, therefew was a chapel located on what is now the site of the carolina inn, but there was no town to speak of. On the day for the First University building, they also had an auction of town lots. They understood the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to support it, provide businesses, so really the town of chapel hill and were born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1781. The ground broken 7093, and it was about a year and a half later when the university open. Iny held an Opening Ceremony january, 7095. They had events on campus, no students showed up. It took a few weeks before the First Student arrived, and he came over 100 miles from the coast of North Carolina and he was the entire student body for about two weeks before more students drifted onto campus. For the first century, it was a school for white men only and it was only in the 1890s that women were first admitted and the university was not integrating into the 1950s. Its impossible to talk about the University Without talking about slavery. Enslaved people were involved in the construction. The earliest building, old east, in the construction and subsequent renovations. Also know that sleep replay the role in the finance of the university, and this was due to the fact that the state legislature did not originally allow funding for the university. Funding they provided that meant that any unclaimed revert to theld ownership of the university and the university would sell it. It was usually in the form of land, but there were a number of cases where the university could be inherited by enslaved people and immediately ordered to be sold to finance the university. Leading up to the civil war, slavery was an integral part of life in the town of chapel hill and the university of North Carolina, and students and faculty were overwhelmingly on the side of the confederacy. Dwindled in the years of to civil war, if a lot of students west. War didthe end of the the troops make it into the university and the University Administrators and others managed to negotiate to prevent the university from being destroyed, but there were soldiers from many United States regiments house on campus and nearby towns. Things really began to change for the university and the town in the 1880s. In the 1880s, a branch of the railroad finally came to town, just west of chapel hill. A couple of textile mill developed, so finally, industry for the town and nearby communities began to develop. In the 1890s, the university really began a drive toward becoming a modern research university. This meant expanding enrollment, graduate school, and really making a more concerted effort to be involved in a positive way with life in North Carolina. Enlisting really began to grow in prestige and National Reputation i would say in the 1920s and 1930s, and this was when they were embarking on a with the ambitious building. In some extent, inspired by state universities in the midwest, and other parts of the country, but the university really began to engage not just with the state of North Carolina, but also the region. And those kinds of academic programs attracted students from all over the country, and they also brought a lot of attention to University Faculty and began to develop this reputation as a regional leader, but also a national leader. The university today is dramatically different from how it was when it was founded. Some of the buildings are still here, but its hard to imagine this rustic, isolated place from 200 years ago. Is now is a modern, Global Public university, deeply committed to the state of north has ties tot also programs and research facilities. It is still located in the heart of the state and is still at the center of public life in North Carolina and i think that is something that is really important. Announcer you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at www. Cspan. Org. Tv onlyamerican history on cspan3. Next, the National Museum of civil war medicine host an online