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225 years of Tar Heels: Hinton James

First-year students living in Hinton James Residence Hall are no strangers to long walks to campus. Neither was the namesake of that building, Hinton James, who — legend has it — walked from his home in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Chapel Hill in 1795 and became the first student to enroll at Carolina. James arrived at Carolina on Feb. 12, 1795. (UNC.edu)

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