AS THE NATION’S FIRST STATE UNIVERSITY, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789 and opened to students in 1795 with two professors and 41 students. Carolina was the only public university to award degrees to students in the 18th century. In 1919, official established the School of Commerce, now the Kenan-Flagler Business School. In 1954 UNC Executive Development delivered their first program.
1793
1753: William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, received the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area of North Carolina. This grant encompassed 585 acres and included the land that now homes the Rizzo Center. 1776: One of William Barbee’s eight children, Christopher, built his home on part of the land and lived there until the age of 90. 1832: Just one year prior to Christopher’s death, he sold his significant landholdings to his son William, including the tract now housing the Rizzo Center. LATE 1800s: The land was passed down through the Barbee family line. Robert W. Hargrave, the last Barbee descendant to own the land, eventually sold it in 1873. For the next 50 years, the property sat unoccupied. 1931: The second and most memorable phase in the life of the property began when Mr. David St. Pierre DuBose, an electrical engineer and 1921 graduate of UNC, and Mrs. DuBose, a descendant of one of the co-founders of the American Tobacco Company, purchased several tracts of land bordering Orange and Durham Counties. They established their own home on the land that once housed the original Christopher Barbee homeplace.
Cornerstone laid for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1795
First state university to open its doors
1919
School of Commerce (Kenan-Flagler Business School) established
1954
UNC Executive Development offered its first program
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