GOLDSBORO  , a

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