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ELON UNIVERSITY

Founded as Elon College by the Christian Church in 1889. Coeducational. Burned in 1923; rebuilt 1923-26.

G-52Alamance County

Where it stands. Williamson Avenue in Elon

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This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading—the sum total of our experience.
Edward R. MurrowIntroducing the first broadcast of "This is the News" (September 1947)Born in Greensboro, 16 mi from here. Carolina Quotes record
Photograph from Sweponville, Alamance County, 1940
Sweponville, Alamance County, 1940. Jack Delano. Library of Congress, public domain.

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