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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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A marble monument to Joseph Caldwell is dedicated in McCorkle Place
A marble obelisk to Caldwell was dedicated north of the Davie Poplar. Its inscription names the President of the United States, the Governor and other alumni as donors and praises his advocacy of common schools and internal improvements. Caldwell and his wife still lay by the old sandstone shaft near New West; their remains, with her son's, were moved to the monument's east base in July 1904.
People: Helen Hogg Caldwell
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Silent Sam
On June 2, 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and UNC alumni dedicated a Confederate soldier statue in McCorkle Place, and Julian Carr's dedication speech boasted of whipping a Black woman. The monument drew decades of protest until demonstrators pulled it down on August 20, 2018.
People: Julian S. Carr
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Hillsborough dedicates a tablet crediting Daniel Boone with an expedition from the Old State House
During a day of patriotic meetings and a war bond drive, Hillsborough dedicated a steel tablet at the site of the Old State House stating that frontiersmen under Richard Henderson, led by Daniel Boone, set out from there for Kentucky on March 17, 1776. A Trading Path tablet was added to the monument on July 4, 1931. The inscription is disputed: the American Revolution tour AmRevNC says Boone was not with the party that left the courthouse that day.
People: Richard Henderson · Frank Nash
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The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower is dedicated at UNC
The bell tower given by John Motley Morehead III and Rufus Lenoir Patterson II was dedicated to the university on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1931, with Governor O. Max Gardner giving the dedication address. Morehead had proposed a tower to President Harry Woodburn Chase in the 1920s and been turned down on three sites.
People: Harry Woodburn Chase · O. Max Gardner
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Lloyd descendants dedicate a memorial stone to Thomas Lloyd north of Chapel Hill
The Thomas Lloyd Memorial Association set up a granite marker to Thomas Lloyd near Old Highway 86 at Stony Hill Road, northwest of Calvander. Its inscription mixes in details from the life of a different Thomas Lloyd of New Hanover County.
People: Archibald Henderson
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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The class of 1966 unveils a bronze Thomas Wolfe memorial beside Person Hall
An 850-pound bronze relief of an angel, designed by art professor Richard Kinnaird from an idea of Armistead Maupin, was unveiled at the northeast corner of Person Hall. It moved to New East in 1972 and later to a courtyard between Murphey and Greenlaw halls.
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Town of Hillsborough restores Margaret Lane Cemetery and dedicates a memorial plaque
After a restoration by the Town of Hillsborough, a bronze plaque on a large stone was dedicated at the center of the cemetery listing people known to have been buried there from before 1852 to 1931. It notes that the exact location of most of their graves is not known.
Subject: Margaret Lane Cemetery
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A bronze statue of James K. Polk is dedicated on University Day
A bronze statue by the Marshville sculptor Stephen H. Smith, showing Polk as a young man speaking to a crowd and standing on a carved outline of the United States, was dedicated on University Day 1997.
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A Charlie Justice monument is dedicated at UNC's Kenan Football Center
A bronze sculpture of Justice in his number 22 uniform, 8 feet 6 inches tall, was dedicated at the west entrance of the Frank H. Kenan Football Center near the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Private donations paid for it, and it was proposed by his teammate Joe Neikirk with Charlie Loudermilk and Hugh Morton.
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The Unsung Founders Memorial is dedicated in McCorkle Place
The Class of 2002's gift, a black granite table held up by 300 bronze figures by artist Do-Ho Suh, honors the people of color, bond and free, who helped build the university.
People: Do-Ho Suh
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The Eve Marie Carson Garden is dedicated on Polk Place
UNC dedicated a garden behind the Campus Y in memory of Eve Carson and of all students who die before they graduate. A stone slab carries a quotation from her, and private gifts paid for it.
People: Holden Thorp
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Brick memorial holding three recovered gravestones is dedicated at Margaret Lane Cemetery
A brick monument designed and built by town employee Sam Dunevant was unveiled at the cemetery entrance, holding three gravestones recovered during earlier restoration, for Daniel Whitted, W. O. Parker and Nancy Wheatting. About fifty people attended, including descendants, and Mayor Tom Stevens spoke.
People: Tom Stevens
Subject: Margaret Lane Cemetery
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Demonstrators re-read Julian Carr's 1913 dedication speech at the monument and unveil a mock plaque
A campus demonstration read Carr's dedication-day speech aloud at the statue and unveiled a new plaque of its own giving the monument's history. The Daily Tar Heel reported a further Real Silent Sam movement protest on the statue's history later that month.
Part of Silent Sam · 20 events
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Silent Sam is toppled
On the evening of August 20, 2018, the eve of fall classes, about 250 protesters pulled UNC's Confederate monument in McCorkle Place from its pedestal at around 9:20 p.m. The toppling followed a year of campaigning for removal after the 2017 Charlottesville rally, and campus authorities took the statue to an undisclosed location.
Part of Silent Sam · 20 events
Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument) · McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)
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The Town of Chapel Hill unveils the Chapel Hill Nine marker at the Colonial Drug site
On the sixtieth anniversary of the sit-in the town dedicated sculptor Stephen Hayes's stone-based marker at 450 West Franklin Street, naming the nine students; four of them, Dave Mason Jr., James Merritt, Douglas Perry and Albert Williams, attended the unveiling.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 44 events
People: David Mason Jr. · James Merritt · Douglas Perry · Albert Williams
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