This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Braxton Craven and Trinity’s Rise From Quiet Village
A chronicle tracing Braxton Craven’s role in building Union Institute into Trinity College, its evolution into Duke University, and the early leaders who guided the school through hardship toward a state and national educational beacon. It outlines Craven’s vision, key faculty, early plans for Normal College, and the pivotal role of Duke benefactors in expanding a regional college into a unified university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rancolph County
Hopewell Methodist Church
Bush Hill
Archdale
Joseph Johnson
Joseph Mendenhall
Amber
John Leach
James Leach
John Brown
Thomas Finch
Nathan Hunt
Abi Robbins
John W. Thomas
Lwleaches
Mendenhalls
Browns
Johnsons
Trinity
Israel
Allen Frazier
Old College
Union School
Union Institute
Union Institute Academy
Len Frazier
Craven
Union Institute School
Brantley York
New Garden
Guilford College
Braxton Craven
Quaker Institute
Crawforth
Trinity College
Union
Randolph County
Normal College
North Carolina
Dr. Craven
State Literary Fund
Methodist College
Methodists of
Trustees of
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
William Trigg Ganaway
W. T. Ganaway
O. W. Carr
Lemuel Johnson
William Howell Pegram
John Franklin Crowell
Durham
Duke University
John Carlisle Kilgo
South Carolina
Kilgo
Duke
William Preston Few
Few
Loy