When this area was selected as the side of the university, there were no town or village here. There were neighboring farms, a chapel located on what is now the side of the caroline in, but there was no town to speak of. On the day they laid the cornerstone for the First University building, they also had an auction of town lots. They understood that if the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to provide businesses, places for people to live. The town of chapel hill and university were born on the same day. In university was chartered 1789. The ground broke for the first building in 1793, and about a year and a half later, in 1795, when the university opened, they january, 1790y five. They had events on campus here, no students showed up. It took them a few weeks before the First Student arrived. He came over 100 miles from the coast of North Carolina. He was the entire student body for about two weeks before more students gradually drifted on to campus.
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