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Due to the coronavirus. We are on the campus of North Carolina at chapel hill. Unc chapel hill is the First State University in the country. Contested claim we argue with the university of georgia about. The university of georgia were chartered first. The unc charter came a few years later. Unc was first to open and graduated a couple classes before the university of georgia. The university and city were founded at the same time. When this area was selected, there was no town or village. There was a few neighboring farms. There was no town to speak of. On the day they laid the stone for the university building, they had the option of town lodge. The understood if university was going to succeed they needed a town. Businesses, places for people to live. In essence, it was born on the same day. In university was chartered 1789. The ground broke in 1793. A year and a half later, in 1790 five, the university open. January, a ceremony in 1795. They had events on campus. No students showed up. No students showed up. He came over 100 miles from the coast of North Carolina. He was the entire student body for two weeks. For its first century, it was a school for white men only. It was only in the 1890s when women were first admitted. The university did not integrate until the 1950s. It is really impossible to talk about the history of the University Without talking about slavery. Enslaved people were involved in the construction of all the early campus buildings. We also know that slavery played a role in the financing of the university. They provided funds through this that any unclaimed properties, that property would revert and the university would sell it. This was usually in the form of land. There are a number of cases where the university clearly inherited enslaved people. Leading up to the civil war slavery was an integral part in , the town of chapel hill. Students 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 war did troops 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 finally 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 also the region. Academic programs that attracted students from all over the country and they got a lot of attention to University 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 rustic, isolated place from 200 years ago. Now is a modern, Global Public university. Programs ando Research Facilities all over the world. It is still located in the heart of the state. It is at the center of public life of North Carolina. That is something that is very important. 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