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         1. Morehead Chemistry Labs

            115 South Road
            Chapel Hill, NC 27514

            Building Number: 081

            Year Built: 1985

            Departments: Chemistry

            Completed in 1985, the Chemistry Lab bears the name of John Motley Morehead III. In 1946, Morehead presented the university with one million dollars to build and equip a planetarium, which opened in 1949. He also created the Morehead Scholars program and donated funds for the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower. Morehead’s fortune came mainly from his father, James Turner Morehead (1840-1908), a North Carolina businessman who made advances in the manufacture of acetylene gas and steel alloys. Morehead’s companies eventually became part of a 1917 merger that created the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation.

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