For nearly two centuries, the legend of Peter Dromgoole has enchanted the students of Chapel Hill – an irresistible story of a lover’s spat, a moonlight duel and a secret burial beneath a bloodstained boulder. In the most romantic version, young Dromgoole quarreled with a fellow student in 1833 over the affections of a woman known only as Miss Fanny, choosing to settle the rivalry as gentlemen scholars: with pistols. (Raleigh News & Observer)
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