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CHAPEL HILL

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 851 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAPEL HILL  , a
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town of Orange county, North Carolina, U.S.A., about 28 M . N.W. of Raleigh . Pop . (1900) 1099; (1910) 1149 . It is served by a branch of the
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Southern railway, connecting at University, to m. distant, with the
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Greensboro &
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Goldsboro division . The town is best known as the seat of the University of North Carolina (see NORTH CAROLINA), whose campus contains 48 acres . There are cotton and knitting mills and
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lumber interests of some importance .
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Chapel Hill was settled
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late in the 18th century, and was first incorporated in 1851 .

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