Carolina Population Center

With a worldwide population boom in the decades following World War II, UNC, along with other universities, was interested in starting a program to study population growth and change. With support from the Ford Foundation and federal grants, the Carolina Population Center was established in 1966. Th...

University Railroad

The eighteenth-century choice to locate UNC in a relatively sparsely populated area left the university and town stranded in the 1840s when railroad lines began to crisscross the state. The east-west line between Goldsboro and Greensboro bypassed Chapel Hill some eight miles to the north, which enco...

Old Well

Early UNC students and faculty relied on wells and nearby springs and creeks for water. The Old Well is probably one of the original wells dug in the 1790s. Located near Old East, the well was at the center of the small campus following the construction of South Building and Old West. Photos from th...

Toronto Exchange

One of the university's earliest exchange programs, the Toronto Exchange ran for more than thirty years. In the program, a group of Carolina students spent a week at the University of Toronto, and the Toronto students paid a return visit. The program began in 1959 and was organized and sponsored...