Bynum Hall

Bynum Hall was originally built as a gymnasium. It was completed in 1905 and named in honor of William Preston Bynum Jr., a student in the 1890s who died of typhoid fever after his sophomore year. Bynum's grandfather provided the funding for the building. It is one of only two on campus named fo...

UNC-TV

The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, established by the UNC System Board of Governors in 1979, began as a single station that began broadcasting from the Chapel Hill campus in 1955. This early foray into educational television was promoted by successive university leaders, ...

Manly Residence Hall

Opened in 1922, Manly was one of several new dorms built in the early 1920s (nearby Grimes, Ruffin, and Mangum opened around the same time). It is named for brothers Charles and Mathias Manly, from Chatham County. Charles Manly, an 1814 graduate of UNC, was a lawyer and politician, serving as govern...

Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, located at the corner of South and Country Club Roads, is as old as UNC itself. The first recorded burial was a white student, George Clarke of Bertie County, who died unexpectedly in 1798. He was buried in the woods at the top of a knoll that was then well east of campus a...