Later. University and the city were founded at the same time. Selected,area was there were a few neighboring farms. Chapel located on this side of the california in. They laid the understood, they that if the university were to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to vied businesses and places for people to live. They were in essence, born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1789. Ground broke in 1793. 1. 5 years later when the university opened. They had events on campus here. No students showed up. He came over 100 miles from the coast of North Carolina. For its first century, it was a school for white men only. The 1890s when women were first admitted. It is really impossible to talk about the history of the University Without talking about slavery. Slave people were involved in the construction of all the early campus buildings. They know that slavery played a role in the financing of the university. They provided funds through this that any unclaimed properties, and property would revert the university would sell it. There are a number of cases where the university clearly inherited enslaved people. Slavery was an integral part in the town of chapel hill. Dents and faculty were overwhelmingly on the side of the confederacy. Campus life dwindled in the years up to the civil war. The university stayed open, but barely. Only at the end of the board did they make it to chapel hill. The University Administrators and others managed to negotiate to prevent the university from being destroyed. But there were soldiers from many regimens housed on campus and in nearby towns. Things really began to change for the university and the town in the 1880s and 1890s. A branch of the railroad finally came to town just west of chapel hill in what we now know as carrboro. Textile mills developed there and industry for the town and nearby communities began to develop outside the university. In the 90s university really began the drive towards becoming modern, a modern research university, meeting expanding enrollment, open to graduate school, making a more concerted effort to be involved in a positive way. The university really began to grow in prestige and national reputation, i would say, in the 20s and 30s. This is when there was a lot of ambitious building and growth. To some extent inspired by state universities in the midwest and other parts of the country, but the university began to really engage not just with the state of North Carolina, but had academic programs that attracted students from all over the country and they got a lot of attention from university and faculty and began to develop this reputation as a regional leader, certainly, but also a National Leader in higher education. The university today is dramatically different from how it was when it was founded. Some of the buildings are still here, but it is hard to imagine this rough, isolated place. What it is now is a modern, Global Public university, deeply committed to the state of North Carolina, but also has ties to programs, Research Facilities all over the world. It is still located in the heart of the state, at the center of public life in North Carolina and that is something that is really important. You can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at cspan. Org cities tour. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. We will take you inside the u. S. Where theyse wing used are artifacts and photographs to trace the history of women in congress. This is the first of a twopart program. It begins with jeanette ranking. She was elected to the house in 1916. She is elected to the house for years before women had the right to vote, nationally. In a w