The First Public University

Published on September 19, 2018

William Richardson Davie laid the cornerstone of Old East at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — the first public university in America — on October 12, 1793, charting the course of American higher education.

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This is story number 1 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.

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