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GOLDSBORO , a city and the county-seat ofSee also: Wayne county, See also: North Carolina, U.S.A., on the Neuse See also: river, about 5o m
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S.E. of Raleigh
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Pop
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(1890) 4017; (1900) 5877 (2520 negroes); (1gro) 6107
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It is served by the See also: Southern, the See also: Atlantic See also: Coast See also: Line and the See also: Norfolk & Southern See also: railways
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The surrounding country produces large quantities of See also: tobacco, See also: cotton and grain, and trucking is an important industry, the city being a distributing point for strawberries and various kinds of vegetables
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The city's manufactures include cotton goods, knit goods, cotton-seed oil, agricultural implements, See also: lumber and furniture
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Goldsboro is the seat of the Eastern insane See also: asylum (for negroes) and of an Odd See also: Fellows' See also: orphan home
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The See also: municipality owns and operates its See also: water-See also: works and electric-See also: lighting plant
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Goldsboro was settled in 1838, and was first incorporated in 1841
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In the See also: campaign of 1865 Goldsboro was the point of junction of the Union armies under generals Sherman and See also: Schofield, previous to the final advance to See also: Greensboro
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