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William Dunn Moseley

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“Member of N.C. Senate, 1829-1836; Speaker, 1833-1835. First governor of State of Florida, 1845-1849. Home was 1 mi. N.”
State historical marker: F-42: William Dunn Moseley

1795–1863 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Chapel Hill about 1818, as remembered by W.D. Moseley, Class of 1818

Wager, Paul W. (Paul Woodford), 1893-1984 · 1976 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

Paul W. Wager drew this reconstruction of Chapel Hill as it stood about 1818, working from the recollections of William Dunn Moseley, 1795 to 1863, of the university class of 1818. The Chapel Hill Historical Society published it in 1976 with illustrations. One map, 27 x 36 cm.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Moseley, William Dunn, 1795-1863.

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about 1818 A student of 1818 recalls the village's two stores and Hilliard's tavern Writing to Elisha Mitchell in 1853, William D. Moseley of the class of 1818 remembered about a dozen houses on the main street in his student years, with two stores, Trice's and Tom Taylor's, and Hilliard's tavern. Of the private buildings he named, only two houses on East Franklin Street survive. People: William Dunn MoseleySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 15

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Background context: NCpedia: William Dunn Moseley NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
Background context: Historical marker F-42: William Dunn Moseley NC Highway Historical Marker Member of N.C. Senate, 1829-1836; Speaker, 1833-1835. First governor of State of Florida, 1845-1849. Home was 1 mi. N.
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