‘The most important artifact that we have’
Posted Oct 10, 2016
Every year UNC celebrates the historic laying of the Old East cornerstone as a symbol of the birth of the nation’s first public university. But for decades, the centerpiece of that ceremony 223 years ago — a brass plate commemorating the occasion — wasn’t even in Chapel Hill, but 500 miles away as scrap metal waiting to be melted down in a foundry in Clarksville, Tennessee.
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