RALEIGH
, the See also:capital of See also:North Carolina, U.S.A., and the See also:county-seat of See also:Wake county, about 145 M
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N. by W. of See also:Wilmington
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Pop
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(189o) 12,678; (1900) 13,643, of whom 5721 were negroes; (191o, See also:census) 19,218
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See also:Area 4 sq. m
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It is served by the See also:Southern, the Seaboard See also:Air See also:Line, the Raleigh & See also:Southport, and the See also:Norfolk Southern See also:railways
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The See also:city lies about 36o ft. above See also:sea-level on ground sloping gently in all directions from its centre, where there is a beautiful parkincluding the campus of the See also:College of See also:Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; it was named in See also:honour of the donor, R
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See also:Stanhope Pullen, who was also a benefactor of the college
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The See also:State Capitol (184o) is surmounted by a See also:dome and modelled to some extent after the See also:Parthenon and other buildings of See also:ancient See also:Greece; the first Capitol (begun in 1794) was burned in 1831
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In the vicinity are the See also:Governor's See also:Mansion, the Supreme See also:Court See also:Building, the State Library, the building of the State See also:Department of Agriculture, See also:housing the State Museum (of See also:geology, See also:mineralogy,. agriculture and See also:horticulture, See also:botany, See also:zoology, See also:ethnology, &c.), and the See also:Post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office
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Elsewhere are the County Court See also:House, the State See also:Hospital for the Insane (1856), founded through the efforts of Dorothea Lynde See also:Dix, situated on Dix See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill and having in connexion with it a See also:colony for epileptics; a state school for See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:blind, See also:deaf and dumb (1845), and a state See also:institute for See also:negro deaf mutes and blind (1867); the state See also:penitentiary (with a department for the criminal insane); a See also:National See also:Cemetery and a Confederate Cemetery; a Methodist Orphanage (1900) and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic Orphanage, the St See also:Luke's See also:Home for old ladies (1895; under the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Daughters), a State (Confederate) Soldiers' Home (1891), and three private hospitals and the Rex public hospital (1909)
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Raleigh is the seat of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1889), in connexion with which is an agricultural experiment station; of three See also:schools for girls—See also:Peace Institute (Presbyterian, 1857), St See also:Mary's School (See also:Protestant Episcopal, 1842) and See also:Meredith College (Baptist, 1891); of the medical department of the University of North Carolina; and of two schools for negroes—See also:Shaw University (Baptist, 1865), with 530 students in 1908-1909, and St See also:Augustine's School (Protestant Episcopal, 1868), a training school, with 466 students in 1908-1909
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In 1908 the State Library (founded 1841) contained 39,000 volumes, the Supreme Court Library (founded 187o) about 17,000 volumes and the Olivia Raney public library (founded 1901) 9250 volumes
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The city is the see of a Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop
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The See also:principal See also:industrial interests are See also:trade in See also:leaf See also:tobacco and See also:cotton raised in the vicinity, and the manufacture of cotton goods, phosphate fertilizers, foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products, wooden-See also:ware, &c
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The Seaboard Air Line and the Raleigh & Southport railways have repair shops here
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In 1905 the factory product was valued at $1,086,671, 14•7% more than in 1900
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Electric See also:power is conveyed to the city from Buckhorn Falls, on the Cape Fear See also:river, about 26 m. See also:south of Raleigh, and from Milburnie on the Neuse river, 6 m. distant
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In 1788 the site of the city, then known as Wake Court House, was chosen for the capital of the state; and in 1792 the city was laid out and named in honour of See also:Sir See also:Walter Raleigh
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In 1794 the state legislature met here for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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Raleigh was incorporated in 1795 and was reincorporated in 1803; its See also:present See also:charter See also:dates from 1899
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See also:General See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William T
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See also:Sherman's See also:army, on its See also:march through the Carolinas, passed through the city on the 13th of See also:April 1865
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Raleigh was the birthplace of See also:President See also:Andrew See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson; the house in which he was See also:born has been removed to Pullen See also:Park
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By an See also:extension of its boundaries the city nearly doubled its area and increased its See also:population in 1907
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