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40976
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The home affiliated with Davie, who had a history of service in education, politics, and the military, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Renovation work decades later, taking place in three phases, is restoring his only house still standing to its glory.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 11 Issue 6, November 2019,
p20-22
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820; Historic houses--Halifax County--William R. Davie House ; Revolutionary War--William R. Davie; North Carolina Historic Sites; Historic Halifax State Historic Site; Friends of Historic Halifax--William R. Davie House; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--William R. Davie; National Register of Historic Places--William R. Davie House; Revolutionary War--Nathanael Greene--William R. Davie; Davie County--History; Davie County--Description and travel; William R. Davie Park (Charlotte)
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41255
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Browning proposed remembering Davie as more than the founding father status of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He included Davie’s contribution to the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention. This contribution was made possible by the educational experience at Princeton, which for Davie yielded academic achievement.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 3, July 2018,
p281-312
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Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--William R. Davie; Governors--North Carolina ; Constitutional Convention--William Richardson Davie; United States Constitution--framers--North Carolina--William Richardson Davie; Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807; McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius, 1746-1811; Scotch-Irish immigrants--North Carolina--18th century; Alexander, Hezekiah, 1728-1801; Polk, Thomas (1732-1794); Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821; Higher education--history--North Carolina ; Spaight, Richard Dobbs Sr., 1758-1802; Constitutional Convention--Great Compromise--William Richardson Davie; Presbyterians--History
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15829
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The University of North Carolina bestowed its first honorary degree to William Richards Davie, recognized \"founder and principal supporter.\" Davie remains a controversial and complex figure who was a \"soldier, statesman, Federalist, slaveholder, convinced elitist, and founder of the University of the People.\" His ideals for the University of the People rested not on a democratic education system but to produce the ruling elite to govern the people.
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2814
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The 200 year-old Davie Poplar, named for William R. Davie, is possibly the oldest tulip poplar in the nation and a link for generations of students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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