McCorkle Place
McCorkle Place is a park in Orange, North Carolina. McCorkle Place is situated nearby to the suburb Downtown, as well as near the neighborhood Franklin-Rosemary Historic District.Places of Interest
Highlights include Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and Unsung Founders Memorial.
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
Museum
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants.
Unsung Founders Memorial
Monument
The Unsung Founders Memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a memorial located in McCorkle Place, one of the University's quads.
Ackland Art Museum
Museum
The Ackland Art Museum is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded through the bequest of William Hayes Ackland to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Chapel Hill
Scenic and regularly decked out in "Carolina blue", Chapel Hill is a lovely college town in North Carolina that makes up the westernmost point of the Research Triangle.Carrboro
Town
Carrboro is a town in Orange County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 21,295 at the 2020 census. The town, which is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill combined statistical area, was named after North Carolina industrialist Julian S.
Collins Crossing
Neighborhood
Formerly Abby Court, and previously Old Well, is a complex of over 300 residences in North Carolina. Formerly advertised as a complex of “condominiums,” however only a few units, 63 to be exact, are still privately owned. Collins Crossing is situated 2 miles west of McCorkle Place.
McCorkle Place
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Orange, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.91315° or 35° 54′ 47″ north
Longitude
-79.05191° or 79° 3′ 7″ west
Elevation
499 feet (152 metres)
Open location code
8772WW7X+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
GeoNames ID
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