The name is typically applied to a hill where stands (or once stood) a chapel or church.
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The University of North Carolina at ChapelHill, located in ChapelHill, North Carolina, is the oldest public university in the United States.
The University of North Carolina at ChapelHill was founded, oddly, in the same year as the beginning of the French Revolution by a group of North Carolina philosophes.
Accordingly, Franklin Street in downtown ChapelHill, which serves as the northern border of the University's campus, is named after the famous eighteenth-century Enlightenment figure Benjamin Franklin.