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William Lanier Hunt studied botany under W. C. Coker at UNC, graduating in 1931, and helped develop the Coker Arboretum and the university's grounds. He led the creation of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, acquiring land around Coker's gift, designing the garden, and serving as first president of the Botanical Garden Foundation.
Source: UNC Libraries: William Lanier Hunt Papers, 1880s-1996 (finding aid)
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Conservation assessment of the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum and Gray Bluff Garden prepared by P. S. White in January 1991, treating the two Chapel Hill sites as natural areas connected with the North Carolina Botanical Garden. It pairs with the plant checklist compiled for the same ground that year.
William Lanier Hunt, recorded on cassette in 1978 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.
Papers of the horticulturist William Lanier Hunt, dated from the 1880s to 1996, about 40,000 items in 130 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5286. Topics include southern gardens and garden design, horticultural societies and teaching, the North Carolina Botanical Garden and its foundation, photographs of flowers, and the botanist William Chambers Coker at Chapel Hill.
Promotional materials on William Lanier Hunt, the Chapel Hill horticulturist and garden writer. Undated folder from box 5 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.
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