Wall family honored by re-naming East Union to “George and George-Frank Wall Center for Student Life”

Duke University honored the service of two long-time custodians by renaming the east campus union. George Wall, a formerly enslaved person, worked as a janitor Duke when it was still Trinity College, and his son George-Frank Wall, the oldest of 14 children, also worked as a custodian at Duke for more than 50 years. The Durham neighborhood Walltown is named in honor of George Wall, who purchased one of the first plots of land next to Duke's east campus in 1899. Read more here.