Record #:

7735

Author(s):

Byrd, Dick

Abstract:

In 1766 or 1767, David Caldwell established what became known as the Log College in present day Greensboro. Many of the men who attended the school transferred to Princeton and UNC-Chapel Hill, which is why it gained the nickname “grandfather of U.N.C.” The school closed in 1822, two years after Caldwell retired at the age of ninety-five. By 1976, the North Carolina Society for Preservation of Antiquities was able to save a twenty-acre site, which included the Log College. The site was also developed into the Bicentennial Garden, which includes paths and historic markers.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 1, June 1986, p16-17, 33, il, por

Subject(s):

Universities and colleges--Greensboro--History