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What to know about the library? Location: 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill. Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday-Sunday. Getting a card: Library cards are free to ...
Built. 1927–1929. Website. Wilson Library. The Louis Round Wilson Library is a library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] Completed in 1929, it served as the university's main library until 1984. Today, it houses several special collections. The dome rises 85 feet over the university's South Quadrangle.
The building in which the museum was housed was designed by architect Don Stewart [4] and dedicated in 1968 as the Chapel Hill Public Library. [5] Though contemporary in design, the structure and site incorporate many familiar elements of Chapel Hill construction, such as stonework and lush vegetation.
Mary Lindsay Thornton became the North Carolina Collection's first curator in 1917. The North Carolina Collection is the largest collection of traditional library materials documenting a single state. [1] It is part of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
Shannon Ravenel. Shannon Ravenel (born August 13, 1938), [1] née Harriett Shannon Ravenel, is an American literary editor and co-founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. There she edited the annual anthology New Stories from the South from 1986 to 2006. She was series editor of the Houghton Mifflin annual anthology The Best American Short ...