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The Unsung Founders Memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a memorial located in McCorkle Place, one of the University's quads. It consists of a black granite tabletop supported by 300 bronze figurines and surrounded by 5 black stone seats.
William Grimes (c. 1784 – August 20, 1865) was an African-American barber and writer who authored what is considered the first narrative of a formerly enslaved American, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, published in 1825, [1] with a second edition published in 1855. [2]
Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the North Carolina section. This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.
The Keyauwee Indians were a small North Carolina tribe, native to the area of present day Randolph County, North Carolina.The Keyauwee village was surrounded by palisades and cornfields about thirty miles northeast of the Yadkin River, near present day High Point, North Carolina. [1]
The statue was sculpted by Francis Herman Packer, a native of Germany who lived on Long Island, New York, and was a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.. A decade earlier, Packer had been hired by a United Daughters of Confederacy chapter in Wilmington to sculpt the Confederate George Davis Monument (removed, August 2021), located one block to the north and dedicated in 1911.
Mary Frances 'Fannie' McCray (1837–1898) was born Mary Frances Taylor on May 26, 1837, in Goshen Kentucky. [1] McCray was born into slavery, and a majority of available information about her life comes from a biography written by her husband, S.J. "Mack" McCray and one of her sons (which son co-authored the biography is unknown).
The statue was unveiled on June 12, 1912 by the North Carolina division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. [1] [2] Henry Lawson Wyatt was the first Confederate soldier to die in battle on June 10, 1861. [2]
At her death, Mary Blount left a substantial amount of money, much of which was divided among her relatives and friends, her legatees numbering some sixty in total. [3] Her will also contained a bequest for the "building of a Protestant Episcopal Church in the City of Raleigh", to be paid for by "a large sum of money now due to me by virtue of the will of my late husband"; the amount of this ...