Duke University's East Campus has a low (anywhere from about 2-5 feet tall at different points) stone wall around its perimeter. For many people "the wall" is a symbol of the university's attempts to wall itself off from the city (symbolic because it's too short to actually wall anything off from anything). Apparently though: "its 1916 construction came about "as part of a joint effort by the college and the City of Durham to beautify the neighborhood," according to Duke's archives." [source]

There's a running trail along the inside of the wall which many people jog on.

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• http://ninth-street.blogspot.com/2012/06/east-campus-wall-gets-two-access-points.html
• http://www.bullcityrising.com/2009/04/dukes-east-campus-may-lose-500-of-wall-with-planned-main-st-bridge-replacement.html