Old Chapel Hill Cemetery is a quiet historical pocket on the University of North Carolina campus, with graves that reach back into the early life of the university town. It is not a grand cemetery, but it gives Chapel Hill a sense of depth beyond basketball, bookstores and Franklin Street.
Walk through respectfully if you are already exploring campus. The interest lies in names, dates and the way the cemetery sits inside a living university landscape, where students pass daily beside a record of the town's older communities.