Union Church (Village Chapel)

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1. about 1832 A small nondenominational Union Church goes up on the Grand Avenue ground After the university sold the old Grammar School property, a small church open to all denominations, called the Union Church or the Village Chapel, was built on the Grand Avenue plot facing Franklin Street. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 63
2. April 5, 1834 An Orange County meeting at Chapel Hill faults the county's legislators on internal improvement Orange County citizens meeting at the Village Chapel in Chapel Hill resolved that they disapproved of their legislators' course on internal improvement and would support only candidates who favored the state taking shares in improvement companies. They named a committee of seven, headed by Charles W. Johnson, to invite other parts of the county to a nominating convention at Hillsborough on the second day of the May court. People: William McCauley, Isaac C. Patridge The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), April 10, 1834, p. 3
3. between 1844 and 1848 The Union Church is moved off Franklin Street and becomes a school When the university sold the Grand Avenue ground to Andrew Mickle and Richard James Ashe and the Presbyterians, the little Union Church was moved away from Franklin Street and later used as the village school. People: Andrew Mickle Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 81
4. 1846 James Phillips buys the Village Chapel lot for the Presbyterian church Professor James Phillips, as trustee, bought for $200 the lot where the Union or Village Chapel stood, as a site for the Presbyterian church, on condition that no burials be made there. The old chapel was moved a few hundred yards north, enlarged, and long served as the village public school. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 611

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