2008 Official Visitors Guide to Raleigh, Cary, and Wake County - (Page 26) ATTRACTIONS passengers on the Chatham & Seaboard Meredith College One of the largest private women’s colleges, offering day and evening undergraduate programs to women of all ages. Meredith’s graduate programs are open to men and women. college offers baccalaureate degrees. The main building was used as a Confederate hospital and by the Freedmen’s Bureau before opening as an educational institution in 1872. center for the Town of Cary and houses the Cary Heritage Museum. Open to the public for tours, classes, cultural and historical performances and rentals. Free admission. www.peace.edu www.meredith.edu by reservation Saint Augustine’s College minutes from downtown Raleigh and the the College was founded in 1867 by the Protestant Episcopal Church’s Freedman’s Commission. A symbol of academic excellence, programs are offered in over 30 disciplines. Accomplished graduates include Saide and Bessie Delany, Selma Burke, and Olympic coach George Williams. Saint Augustine’s College is dedicated to preparing and transforming students into leaders that excel in all walks of life. http://www.townofcary.org/depts/prdept/facilities/ pwhome.htm N.C. State University North Carolina’s leader in science, engineering and technology, N.C. State is a research university that makes a major economic contribution to the state with outreach activities in every county. It has more than 30,000 students and is the home of Centennial Campus, a national model for a research park/ university partnership. Hillsborough St., Raleigh 27695 www.ncsu.edu Saint Augustine’s College Historic Chapel Built with the patronage of the Episcopal one of the oldest buildings on campus and a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark. chapel under the direction of Reverend Henry Beard Delany, who at the time was instructor of carpentry and masonry, chaplain and musician. The stone used for the construction was quarried from another campus location. For many of the student workers the chapel creation was, in part, a required, graded assignment. The chapel houses the bishop’s chair, a memorial of Delany’s consecration as the fi rst African American Episcopal Bishop in North Carolina. Free admission. service. Peace College A liberal arts and sciences college for women founded in 1857 by William Peace and affiliated Shaw University Founded in 1865 to educate freedmen, the former Raleigh Institute is the oldest historically black university in the South. Renamed in 1870 to honor benefactor Elijah arts institution offers 34 undergraduate majors and four master’s degrees in divinity and education. www.shawuniversity.edu Saint Mary’s School Founded in 1842, Saint Mary’s School is an Wake Technical Community College Wake Tech serves more than 60,000 students at four campuses, two centers and dozens of community sites. It offers degree, diploma and certificate curriculum programs, community based occupational training. Wake Tech plays a critical role in county wide economic development efforts by meeting local class workforce. campus in the heart of Raleigh is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and four of the school’s 25 buildings are Raleigh historic structure that dates back to 1856, is a National Historic Site. Free Admission. N.C. State University Belltower www.waketech.edu 26 www.VisitRaleigh.com http://www.peace.edu http://www.meredith.edu http://www.townofcary.org/depts/prdept/facilities/pwhome.htm http://www.townofcary.org/depts/prdept/facilities/pwhome.htm http://www.ncsu.edu http://www.st-aug.edu http://www.st-aug.edu http://www.shawuniversity.edu http://www.saint-marys.edu http://www.waketech.edu http://www.VisitRaleigh.com
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