Fence Contractor in Chapel Hill, NC

About Chapel Hill, NC

Chapel Hill is a town in Orange, Durham and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census, making Chapel Hill the 17th-largest municipality in the state. Chapel Hill, Durham, and the state capital, Raleigh, make up the corners of the Research Triangle (officially the Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area), with a total population of 2,106,463 in 2020 census.The town was founded in 1793 and is centered on Franklin Street, covering 21.3 square miles (55 km2). It contains several districts and buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care are a major part of the economy and town influence. Local artists have created many murals. == History == === Pre-establishment and colonial era === The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement.The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of “Lick Branch” from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area. Though William Barbee died shortly after settling there in 1758, one of his eight children, Christopher Barbee, became an important contributor to his father’s adopted community and to the fledgling University of North Carolina. In 1792, he offered the trustees of UNC 221 acres on which the university is now built, making him the university’s largest donor. Chapel Hill has developed along a hill; the crest was the original site of a small Anglican “chapel of ease”, built in 1752, known as New Hope Chapel.