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Research Triangle Park
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The Research Triangle Park is one of the largest research parks in the world. It is named for the three hub cities of Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, or more properly for the three major universities in those three cities. The Research Triangle region of North Carolina received its name as an extension of the name of the park, approximately one fourth of the parks territory lies in Wake County, but the majority of its land is in Durham County. RTP is one of the most prominent high-tech research and development parks in the United States and it was created in 1959 by state and local governments, nearby universities, and local business interests. Karl Robbins bought the land where the park is now built, the park covers 7,000 acres situated in a pine forest with 22,500,000 square feet of built space. The park is traversed by Interstate 40, the Durham Freeway and it is managed by the Research Triangle Foundation, a private non-profit organization. The park hosts one of GlaxoSmithKlines largest R&D centers with approximately 5,000 employees, cisco Systems campus in RTP, with approximately 5,000 employees, is the second highest concentration of its employees outside of its Silicon Valley corporate headquarters. The park is an area, and state law prohibits municipalities from annexing areas within the park. The park has special zoning as a Research Applications District in the Wake County portion, as of October 2012, both zoning areas are in the process of being revised to allow higher density development. The zoning changes are coupled with legislative changes allowing for Urban Research Service Districts within the Park and these newly permitted URSDs could levy taxes at the same rate as a neighboring city. On October 1,2015, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation, Bob Geolas, Park Center is to be over 300,000 square feet of public space at the heart of the Research Triangle Park. This public area will include retail outlets, food and beverage venues, Geolas states that “We want to make all of this as local as possible. I would like to have as few chains, no chains if we could, i’d love for it all to be local. Local coffee, local food, local produce, local products. ”The redevelopment plans also include exploring partnerships with regional transit groups, the hope of the Research Triangle Foundation is to broaden public transportation to and from the area. According to Geolas, “We are currently having discussions about bringing the Regional Transit Center over to Park Center so that we can connect all of our transit links. ”A public commuter rail is also in talks. The Research Triangle Park Foundation operates three buildings within RTP and these three buildings are The Frontier, The Lab, and The Archie K. Davis Conference Center. The Frontier is an innovative collaboration space that was first opened in January 2015, since its inception, over 20,000 visitors have come through The Frontiers doors. The Lab is a lab and office space that houses multiple Research
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Piedmont Triad
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The Piedmont Triad is a north-central region of the U. S. state of North Carolina that consists of the area within and surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group or triad of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the United States, the area of the triad is approximately 5,954 square miles. The metropolitan area is connected by Interstates 40,85,73, the Triad is not to be confused with the Triangle region, directly to the east. As of 2012, the Piedmont Triad has an population of 1,611,243 making it the 33rd largest CSA metropolitan area in the United States. However, for all intents and purposes the region still functions as a metropolitan area. The area also has its share of scientific museums, such as SciWorks, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, the Wake Forest Museum of Anthropology. The North Carolina Zoo, the worlds largest open-air natural habitat zoo, is located just outside the Randoph County city of Asheboro, the economy in the Piedmont Triad is a mixed economy. The Triad area is notable for large textile, tobacco, the Triad remains a national center for textile manufacturing, represented by corporations including Hanes based in Winston-Salem, and International Textile Group, based in Greensboro. Numerous furniture manufacturers are also headquartered in the Triad area, especially in the cities of High Point, Thomasville, the furniture and textile industries have in turn spawned large trucking, logistics, and warehousing businesses in the area. Popular brands like Thomasville and Lexington are derived from the names of these cities, recently, however, many furniture and tobacco factories have been closing and/or laying off workers across the region in response to escalating industrial globalization. After many of the old industries in the area began to die out, Dell, Inc. in the early 2000s struck a deal with local officials allowing for the construction of a new computer assembly plant near the Triad city of Kernersville. However, Dell pulled out of its contract with the city, upon full build out of the project, it is expected to be housed by two 75-acre campuses, employ approximately 2,000 people, and generate $50 million per year to the Triad economy. LabCorp, one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world, has its corporate headquarters, four major Interstate highways and numerous secondary Interstate routes and US routes serve the region, Interstate highways I-40, the primary east-west route across the region. In the eastern Triad, it is conjoined with I-85, the two routes split in Greensboro. I-40 Business, runs through Kernersville and Winston-Salem and it is a former alignment of I-40. I-840, part of the Greensboro Urban Loop, currently under construction, when complete, I-840 will be the northern half of the loop. I-73, the primary route across the region, much of which has yet to be constructed. This portion was designated as I-40, with the current
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Piedmont (United States)
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The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States. It sits between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south, the Piedmont Province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division which consists of the Piedmont Upland and the Piedmont Lowlands sections. The Atlantic Seaboard fall line marks the Piedmonts eastern boundary with the Coastal Plain, to the west, it is mostly bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the easternmost range of the main Appalachians. The width of the Piedmont varies, being quite narrow above the Delaware River, the Piedmonts area is approximately 80,000 square miles. The name Piedmont comes from the French term for the physical region, literally meaning foothill, ultimately from Latin pedemontium. The region is named after the Italian region of Piedmont, the lowlands which abut the Alps, the surface relief of the Piedmont is characterized by relatively low, rolling hills with heights above sea level between 200 feet and 800 feet to 1,000 feet. Its geology is complex, with rock formations of different materials. Essentially, the Piedmont is the remnant of ancient mountain chains that have since been eroded away. Geologists have identified at least five events which have led to sediment deposition, including the Grenville orogeny. The last major event in the history of the Piedmont was the break-up of Pangaea, large basins formed from the rifting and were subsequently filled by the sediments shed from the surrounding higher ground. The series of Mesozoic basins is almost entirely located inside the Piedmont region, Piedmont soils are generally clay-like and moderately fertile. In some areas they have suffered from erosion and over-cropping, particularly in the South where cotton was historically the chief crop. In the central Piedmont region of North Carolina and Virginia, corn is the crop, while in the north region there is more diversity, including orchards, dairying. The Piedmont region is associated with the Piedmont blues, a style of blues music that originated there in the late 19th century. According to the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, most Piedmont blues musicians came from Virginia, the Carolinas, during the Great Migration, Black Americans migrated to the Piedmont. Thus, Piedmont blues was influenced by many types of such as ragtime, country. Many major cities are located on the line, the eastern boundary of the Piedmont. The fall line, where the land rises abruptly from the plain, marks the limit of navigability on many major rivers
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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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North Carolina State University
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North Carolina State University is a public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, the university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The North Carolina General Assembly founded the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now NC State, on March 7,1887, Today, NC State has an enrollment of more than 34,000 students, making it the largest university in the Carolinas. NC State has historical strengths in engineering, statistics, agriculture, life sciences, textiles and design, the graduate school offers 104 masters degrees,61 doctoral degrees, and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. The North Carolina General Assembly founded NC State on March 7,1887 as a land-grant college under the name North Carolina College of Agriculture, in the segregated system, it was open only to white students. As a land-grant college, NC State would provide a liberal and practical education while focusing on tactics, agriculture. Since its founding, the university has maintained these objectives while building on them, after opening in 1889, NC State saw its enrollment fluctuate and its mandate expand. In 1918, it changed its name to North Carolina State College of Agriculture, during the Great Depression, the North Carolina state government, under Governor O. Max Gardner, administratively combined the University of North Carolina, the Womans College, and NC State. This conglomeration became the University of North Carolina in 1931, following World War II, the university grew and developed. Bill enabled thousands of veterans to college, and enrollment shot past the 5,000 mark in 1947. State College created new programs, including the School of Architecture and Landscape Design in 1947, the School of Education in 1948. In the summer of 1956, following the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v, in 1962, State College officials desired to change the institutions name to North Carolina State University. Consolidated university administrators approved a change to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, frustrating many student, in 1963, State College officially became North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina. The at Raleigh part is omitted even on official documents such as diplomas. In 1966, single-year enrollment reached 10,000, in the 1970s enrollment surpassed 19,000 and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences was added. Celebrating its centennial in 1987, NC State reorganized its internal structure, also in this year, it gained 700 acres of land that was developed as Centennial Campus. Since then, NC State has focused on developing its new Centennial Campus and it has invested more than $620 million in facilities and infrastructure at the new campus, with 62 acres of space being constructed. Sixty-one private and government agency partners are located on Centennial Campus, NC State has almost 8,000 employees, nearly 35,000 students, a $1.01 billion annual budget, and a $984 million endowment
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Duke University
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Duke University is an American private research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the town of Trinity in 1838. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father. Dukes campus spans over 8,600 acres on three campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. The main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot Duke Chapel at the campus center, the first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles away is adjacent to the Medical Center. Duke is the seventh-wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash, Dukes research expenditures in the 2015 fiscal year were $1.037 billion, the seventh largest in the nation. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named 32 of Dukes professors to its list of Highly Cited Researchers, Duke also ranks fifth among national universities to have produced Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars. Ten Nobel laureates and three Turing Award winners are affiliated with the university, Dukes sports teams compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the basketball team is renowned for having won five NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, most recently in 2015. Duke is consistently included among the best universities in the world by numerous university rankings, according to a Forbes study, Duke is ranked 11th among universities that have produced billionaires. Duke started in 1838 as Browns Schoolhouse, a subscription school founded in Randolph County in the present-day town of Trinity. Organized by the Union Institute Society, a group of Methodists and Quakers, the academy was renamed Normal College in 1851 and then Trinity College in 1859 because of support from the Methodist Church. Carr donated land in 1892 for the original Durham campus, which is now known as East Campus, in 1924 Washington Dukes son, James B. Duke, established The Duke Endowment with a $40 million trust fund, income from the fund was to be distributed to hospitals, orphanages, the Methodist Church, and four colleges. Duke thought the change would come off as self-serving. Money from the endowment allowed the University to grow quickly, Dukes original campus, East Campus, was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings. By 1930, the majority of the Collegiate Gothic-style buildings on the one mile west were completed. In 1878, Trinity awarded A. B. degrees to three sisters—Mary, Persis, and Theresa Giles—who had studied both with private tutors and in classes with men. With the relocation of the college in 1892, the Board of Trustees voted to allow women to be formally admitted to classes as day students
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. It is one of the 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina system, the first public institution of higher education in North Carolina, the school opened its doors to students on February 12,1795. The university offers degrees in over 70 courses of study through fourteen colleges, in 1952, North Carolina opened its own hospital, UNC Health Care, for research and treatment, and has since specialized in cancer care. The schools students, alumni, and sports teams are known as Tar Heels, the campus covers 729 acres of Chapel Hills downtown area, encompassing the Morehead Planetarium and the many stores and shops located on Franklin Street. Students can participate in over 550 officially recognized student organizations, the student-run newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the worlds first internet radio broadcast. North Carolina is one of the members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Competing athletically as the Tar Heels, North Carolina has achieved success in sports, most notably in mens basketball, womens soccer. As a result, Womans College was renamed the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1955, UNC Chapel Hill officially desegregated its undergraduate divisions. During World War II, UNC Chapel Hill was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission, during the 1960s, the campus was the location of significant political protest. Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations, the climate of civil unrest prompted the 1963 Speaker Ban Law prohibiting speeches by communists on state campuses in North Carolina. The law was criticized by university Chancellor William Brantley Aycock and university President William Friday. A group of UNC Chapel Hill students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, filed a lawsuit in U. S. federal court, and on February 20,1968, the Speaker Ban Law was struck down. From the late 1990s and onward, UNC Chapel Hill expanded rapidly with a 15% increase in student population to more than 28,000 by 2007. Professor Oliver Smithies was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his work in genetics, additionally, Aziz Sancar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work in understanding the molecular repair mechanisms of DNA. The current chancellor is Carol Folt, the first woman to hold the post, UNC Chapel Hills 729-acre campus is dominated by two central quads, Polk Place and McCorkle Place. Adjacent to Polk Place is a sunken brick courtyard known as the Pit where students will gather, the Morehead–Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls the quarter-hour. In 1999, UNC Chapel Hill was one of sixteen recipients of the American Society of Landscape Architects Medallion Awards and was identified as one of 50 college or university works of art by T. A, gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art. The universitys campus is divided into three regions, usually referred to as north campus, middle campus, and south campus
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina, the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is known as the City of Oaks for its oak trees. The city covers a area of 142.8 square miles. The U. S. Census Bureau estimated the population as 451,066 as of July 1,2015. It is also one of the cities in the country. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County, Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University and is part of the Research Triangle area, together with Durham and Chapel Hill. The Triangle nickname originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located in Durham and Wake Counties, partway between the three cities and their universities. The Research Triangle region encompasses the U. S. Census Bureaus Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, the Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 1,214,516 in 2013. Most of Raleigh is located within Wake County, with a small portion extending into Durham County. Raleigh is an example in the United States of a planned city. It was chosen as the site of the capital in 1788. The city was laid out in a grid pattern with the North Carolina State Capitol in Union Square at the center. Raleigh is home to cultural, educational, and historic sites. The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Raleigh features three venues and serves as the home for the North Carolina Symphony and the Carolina Ballet. Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek is a large music amphitheater located in southeast Raleigh, one U. S. president, Andrew Johnson, was born in Raleigh. Bath, the oldest town in North Carolina, was the first nominal capital from 1705 until 1722, the colony had no permanent institutions of government until the establishment at the new capital New Bern in 1743. In December 1770, Joel Lane successfully petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly to create a new county, on January 5,1771, the bill creating Wake County was passed in the General Assembly. The county was formed from portions of Cumberland, Orange, the county gets its name from Margaret Wake Tryon, the wife of Governor William Tryon
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Durham, North Carolina
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Durham is a city in the U. S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County, though portions also extend into Wake County in the east, the U. S. Census Bureau estimated the citys population to be 251,893 as of July 1,2014. Durham is the core of the four-county Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Area and it is the home of Duke University and North Carolina Central University, and is also one of the vertices of the Research Triangle area. The Eno and the Occoneechi, related to the Sioux and the Shakori and they may have established a village named Adshusheer on the site. The Great Indian Trading Path has been traced through Durham, and Native Americans helped to mold the area by establishing settlements, in 1701, Durhams beauty was chronicled by the English explorer John Lawson, who called the area the flower of the Carolinas. During the mid-1700s, Scots, Irish, and English colonists settled on land granted to George Carteret by King Charles I, early settlers built gristmills, such as West Point, and worked the land. Prior to the American Revolution, frontiersmen in what is now Durham were involved in the Regulator movement, according to legend, Loyalist militia cut Cornwallis Road through this area in 1771 to quell the rebellion. Later, William Johnston, a shopkeeper and farmer, made Revolutionaries munitions, served in the Provincial Capital Congress in 1775. Large plantations, Hardscrabble, Cameron, and Leigh among them, were established in the antebellum period, by 1860, Stagville Plantation lay at the center of one of the largest plantation holdings in the South. There were free African-Americans in the area as well, including several who fought in the Revolutionary War and this road, eventually followed by US Route 70, was the major east-west route in North Carolina from colonial times until the construction of interstate highways. Steady population growth and an intersection with the road connecting Roxboro and Fayetteville made the area near this site suitable for a US Post Office, Durhams location is a result of the needs of the 19th century railroad industry. The wood-burning steam locomotives of the time had to frequently for wood and water. Eventually a railway depot was established on land donated by Bartlett S. Durham in 1849, sherman occupied the nearby state capital of Raleigh during the American Civil War. The last formidable Confederate Army in the South, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston, was headquartered in Greensboro 50 miles to the west. After the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia by Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Virginia on April 9,1865, fortunately for Durham, its future had nothing to do with 19th-century politics. As both armies passed through Durham, Hillsborough, and surrounding Piedmont communities, they confiscated the areas Brightleaf Tobacco, the community of Durham Station grew slowly before the Civil War, but expanded rapidly following the war. Much of this attributed to the establishment of a thriving tobacco industry. Veterans returned home after the war, with an interest in acquiring more of the tobacco they had sampled in North Carolina
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Chapel Hill is a city in Orange County, North Carolina, and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care. The population was 57,233 at the 2010 census, Chapel Hill is the 15th-largest city in North Carolina. Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh. Chapel Hill is one of the cities of the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA. Chapel Hill sits atop a hill which was occupied by a small Anglican chapel of ease, built in 1752. The Carolina Inn now occupies the site of the original chapel, in 1819, the town was founded to serve the University of North Carolina and grew up around it. The town was chartered in 1851, and its main street, in 1968, only a year after its schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill became the first predominantly white municipality in the South to elect an African American mayor, Howard Lee. Lee served from 1969 until 1975 and, among other things, helped establish Chapel Hill Transit, several hybrid and articulated buses have been added recently. All buses carry GPS transmitters to report their location in time to a tracking web site. Buses can transport bicycles and have wheelchair lifts, in 1993, the town celebrated its bicentennial, which resulted in the establishment of the Chapel Hill Museum. On February 10,2015, three students were killed in their home, Finley Forest Condominiums, next to the Friday Center for Continuing Education. Their next-door neighbor, Craig Stephen Hicks, was arrested by police, Chapel Hill is located in the southeast corner of Orange County. It is bounded on the west by the town of Carrboro, however, most of Chapel Hills borders are adjacent to unincorporated portions of Orange and Durham Counties rather than shared with another municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 21.3 square miles. Durham, North Carolina, is the core of the four-county Durham-Chapel Hill MSA, the US Office of Management and Budget also includes Chapel Hill as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,749,525 as of Census 2010. According to the 2010 U. S. Census,57,233 people in 20,564 households resided in Chapel Hill, the population density was 2,687 people per square mile. The racial composition of the town was 72. 8% White,9. 7% African American,0. 3% Native American,11. 9% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,2. 7% some other race, and 2. 7% of two or more races. About 6. 4% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race, about 30. 6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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Combined statistical area
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A combined statistical area is composed of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. These areas that retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area. The primary distinguishing factor between a CSA and an MSA is that the social and economic ties between the individual MSAs within a CSA are at lower levels than between the counties within an MSA, cSAs represent multiple metropolitan or micropolitan areas that have an employment interchange of 25. CSAs often represent regions with overlapping labor and media markets, as of July 2012, there are 166 combined statistical areas in the United States, plus three in Puerto Rico. S. S. Combined Statistical Areas of the United States and Puerto Rico, link United States Government United States Census Bureau 2010 United States Census USCB population estimates United States Office of Management and Budget
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Charlotte metropolitan area
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The Charlotte metropolitan area is a metropolitan area/region of North and South Carolina within and surrounding the city of Charlotte. Located in the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States, the Charlotte metropolitan area is known for its auto racing history. The region is headquarters to 8 Fortune 500 and 7 Fortune 1000 companies including Bank of America, Duke Energy, Sealed Air Corporation, Nucor Steel, additional headquarters include Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Cheerwine and Sundrop. It is home to one of the worlds busiest airports, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the Charlotte MSA is the largest in the Carolinas, and the sixth largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern region of the United States behind Washington, D. C. The Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia Metropolitan Statistical Area is defined as seven counties in North Carolina, the population of the MSA was 2,426,363 according to 2015 Census estimates. Charlotte is the 17th largest city and 22nd largest metro area in the United States, Charlotte is the 2nd largest city in the Southeast. The aforementioned MSA is the metropolitan area included in the CSA. The term does retain a marketing value, and is also used by many businesses in the area. Metrolina refers to the region includes the cities of, Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia. The term Charlotte USA refers to the 16-county region, which includes 12 counties in North Carolina and 4 counties in South Carolina, the term is championed by the Charlotte Regional Partnership, a non-profit organization made up of both private- and public-sector members from throughout the Charlotte region. This organization represents one of seven officially designated economic development regions in North Carolina and this term, however, is used only sparingly among locals. The official Charlotte metropolitan area includes the Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia MSA, the Charlotte CSA includes all the MSA counties along with the following micropolitan areas, Albemarle and Shelby. The Charlotte Regional Partnership also identifies four additional counties to the what they refer to as the Charlotte Region. S, the Charlotte Area Transit System is the local public transit agency that operates bus service that serves Charlotte and its immediate suburban communities in both North and South Carolina. CATS also operates a rail line and is also building a commuter rail network as a supplement to its established bus transit throughout the region. Plans are for it to stretch initially to Mooresville, Pineville, Matthews, charlotte-Douglas International Airport will be connected to the system by streetcar. The Charlotte region is served by 2 major interstate highways. I-40 also passes through the center of Iredell County, which is the region of the Charlotte metro. Other important US highways in the include, US74, US52, US321, US601
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North Carolina's 2nd congressional district
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North Carolinas 2nd congressional district is located in the central and eastern parts of the state. Today, the district, which is represented by Republican Rep. George Holding, includes all or parts of Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Randolph and Wake counties. Established by the legislature after the American Civil War, the district was known as The Black Second. After North Carolina Democrats regained control of the legislature in the 1870s, they passed voter registration. Blacks continued to get elected to local and state offices, the state legislature passed a new constitutional amendment in 1900, which effectively disfranchised blacks altogether. This ended the election of blacks to local, state or Congressional offices until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s. Thousands of blacks migrated north from the state in the Great Migration during the first half of the century, seeking job opportunities. By the later twentieth century, before the 1990s, the 2nd district was roughly 40% black, state redistricting following census changes led to the creation of the black-majority 1st and 12th districts and drew off some black population from the 2nd. Today the proportion of African-American residents is about 30. 4% in the 2nd District, North Carolinas congressional districts List of United States congressional districts Martis, Kenneth C. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, the Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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North Carolina's 4th congressional district
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The Fourth Congressional district of North Carolina is located in the central region of the state. The district stretches from Burlington to Fayetteville and it includes two-thirds of the state capital, Raleigh, all of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, and portions of Durham. The district is represented by 11-term Congressman David Price, a former political science professor at Duke who was first elected in 1986. Price came back to defeat Heineman in a rematch in 1996, in 2008, Price received 63% to defeat Republican challenger B. J. Lawson, who received 37%. In contrast, its predecessor was the most regularly drawn of the states 13 districts, from 2003 to 2013 it contained most of the area commonly known as The Triangle. It included all of Durham and Orange counties, part of Wake County, the 4th district picked up the most Republican areas of Wake County, such as Apex, Cary, and much of North Raleigh in order to help make the neighboring 13th and 2nd districts more Democratic. For instance, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the Wake County portion of the district in 2008 by 51–48%, in contrast, Obama won Wake County overall by a much greater margin of 56–43%, and Obama swept the 4th district as a whole by 63–36%. The 4th district had a Cook PVI of D+8, which made it the most Democratic white-majority district in the entire South outside of South Florida and they were replaced by heavily Democratic portions of Alamance, Cumberland, Harnett and Lee counties. Additionally, the district was pushed further into Raleigh, the district is just barely contiguous, the northern and southern portions are connected by a barely-discernible strip of land along the Lee/Harnett line. North Carolinas congressional districts List of United States congressional districts Martis, the Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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North Carolina's 13th congressional district
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The Thirteenth congressional district of North Carolina was re-established in 2002 after the state gained population in the 2000 United States Census. Previously, the state had 13 districts from the first election following the 1810 United States Census until the reapportionment following the 1840 United States Census. From 2003 to 2013 the district included most of northern Wake County, all of Person and Caswell counties as well as parts of Rockingham, Granville, Guilford, however, reapportionment after the 2010 census shifted the district more to the south and east. As a result, it lost its share of Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Person, in place of those five counties, portions of Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Nash, Vance, Wayne, and Wilson counties were added. More of Wake County and less of Granville County were also included, while Barack Obama carried the old 13th with 59 percent of the vote in 2008, John McCain would have won it with 54 percent of the vote had it existed under the new lines. As a result, Congressman Brad Miller, who represented the district from its creation in 2003, from 2013 to 2017, the district was represented by Republican George Holding. After a mid-decade redistricting, most of the old 13th was essentially merged with the old 2nd District, a new 13th was created, stretching from the northern suburbs of Charlotte to Greensboro. Republican Ted Budd became the first congressman from this new district, the Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present Congressman Holdings official House website
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Greensboro, North Carolina
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Greensboro is a city in the U. S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the county seat and largest city in Guilford County, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 269,666, and in 2015 the estimated population was 285,342. Three major interstate highways in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city, in 1808, Greensborough was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. In 2003, the previous Greensboro – Winston-Salem – High Point metropolitan statistical area was re-defined by the U. S. Office of Management and this region was separated into the Greensboro-High Point MSA and the Winston-Salem MSA. The 2010 population for the Greensboro-High Point MSA was 723,801, the combined statistical area of Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, popularly referred to as the Piedmont Triad, had a population of 1,599,477. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Greensboro were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura, other indigenous cultures had occupied this area for thousands of years, typically settling along the waterways, as did the early settlers. Quaker migrants from Pennsylvania, by way of Maryland, arrived at Capefair in about 1750, the new settlers began organized religious services affiliated with the Cane Creek Friends Meeting in Snow Camp in 1751. Three years later,40 Quaker families were granted approval to establish New Garden Monthly Meeting, the settlement grew rapidly during the next three years, adding members from as far away as Nantucket in Massachusetts. It soon became the most important Quaker community in North Carolina and mother of several other Quaker meetings that were established in the state and west of the Appalachians. After the Revolutionary War, the city of Greensboro was named for Major General Nathanael Greene, although the Americans lost the battle, Greenes forces inflicted heavy casualties on the British Army of General Cornwallis. Following this battle, Cornwallis withdrew his troops to a British coastal base in Wilmington, Greensboro was established near the geographic center of Guilford County, on land that was an unbroken forest with thick undergrowth of huckleberry bushes, that bore a finely flavored fruit. Property for the village was purchased from the Saura for $98. Three north-south streets were laid out intersecting with three east-west streets, the courthouse was built at the center of the intersection of Elm and Market streets. By 1821, the town was home to 369 residents, stimulated by rail traffic and improved access to markets, the city grew substantially, soon becoming known as the Gate City due to its role as a transportation hub for the Piedmont. The railroads transported goods to and from the textile mills. Many of the manufacturers developed workers housing in mill villages near their facilities, Textile companies and related businesses continued into the 21st century, when most went bankrupt, reorganized, and/or merged with other companies as textile manufacturing jobs moved offshore. Greensboro is still a center of the textile industry, with the main offices of International Textile Group, Galey & Lord, Unifi. ITG Brands, maker of Kool, Winston and Salem brand cigarettes, is the third largest tobacco company in the United States and is headquartered in Greensboro, rail traffic continues to be important for the citys economy, as Greensboro is a major regional freight hub
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. With a 2015 estimated population of 241,218, it is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and the fifth largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region,100 North Main Street, formerly the Wachovia Building, Winston-Salem is called the Twin City for its dual heritage and City of the Arts and Innovation for its dedication to fine arts and theater and technological research. Camel City is a reference to the citys involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Companys Camel cigarettes. Winston-Salem is also known for its traditional furniture company, many locals refer to the city as Winston in informal speech. The Dash is referenced from the hyphen between Winston and Salem and was popularized by the nickname of the minor league baseball team. In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U. S. by CBS MoneyWatch, the city of Winston-Salem is a product of the merging of the two neighboring towns of Winston and Salem in 1913. The origin of the town of Salem dates to January 1753 and he called this area die Wachau named after the ancestral estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. The land, just short of 99,000 acres, was purchased from John Carteret. On November 17,1753, the first settlers arrived at what would become the town of Bethabara. This town, despite its growth, was not designed to be the primary settlement on the tract. Some residents expanded to a settlement called Bethania in 1759. Finally, lots were drawn to select suitable sites for the location of a new town. The town established on the site was given the name of Salem chosen for it by the Moravians late patron. On January 6,1766, the first tree was felled for the building of Salem, Salem was a typical Moravian settlement congregation with the public buildings of the congregation grouped around a central square, today Salem Square. These included the church, a Brethrens House and a Sisters House for the members of the Congregation. For many years members of the Moravian Church were permitted to live in the settlement. This practice had ended by the American Civil War, many of the original buildings in the settlement have been restored or rebuilt and are now part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens
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High Point, North Carolina
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High Point is a city located in the Piedmont Triad region of the State of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census the city had a population of 104,371. High Point is currently the ninth-largest municipality in North Carolina, High Point is known for its furniture, textiles, and bus manufacturing. The city is referred to as the Furniture Capital of the World. The citys official slogan is North Carolinas International City due to the semi-annual High Point Furniture Market that attracts 100,000 exhibitors and buyers from around the world. Most of the city is located in Guilford County, with portions spilling into neighboring Randolph, Davidson, High Point is North Carolinas only city that extends into four counties. Among the first Europeans to settle Guilford County were English Quakers, High Point was located at the highest point of the 1856 North Carolina Railroad between Charlotte and Goldsboro where it intersected the 1852 Great Western Plank Road. Its central location and transportation allowed for the delivery of raw materials like cotton and lumber and processed goods in and out of the city, settled before 1750, High Point was incorporated in 1859. Before it became a manufacturing center, the most important industries were tobacco, woodworking. The first of many High Point furniture factories was opened in 1889, established in 1924, High Point University is a liberal arts institution with approximately 4,400 undergraduate and graduate students from 51 countries and 46 states. It is ranked by U. S. News and World Report 2013 edition of Americas Best Colleges 1st among comprehensive universities in the South, the university offers 44 undergraduate majors,10 graduate-degree programs and one doctorate program. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA Division I, High Point is the only city in North Carolina that exists within four counties, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford and Randolph. It also stands within two watersheds, the Yadkin–Pee Dee to the west and the Cape Fear to the east. Parts of the city rise above 1,000 feet, making it among the highest cities in North Carolinas Piedmont, High Point is located at 35°58′14″N 79°59′51″W. It is bordered by the city of Greensboro to the north, Jamestown to the northeast, the city limits of Trinity and Thomasville come within half a mile of the High Point city limits to the south and southwest, respectively. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 55.4 square miles, of which 53.8 square miles is land and 1.7 square miles. Summers are hot and humid, and the dew points will often climb to near or even above 70 °F by late June through much of August, nights usually remain warm above 70 degrees. Most summers the hottest day will record a maximum between 96 and 98 °F, about once every 5 to 10 years the city will climb to or above 100 °F
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Chatham County, North Carolina
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Chatham County is a county located in the Piedmont area of the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,505, some of the first settlers of what would become the county were English Quakers, who settled along the Haw and Eno rivers. The county was formed in 1771 from Orange County and it was named in 1758 for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who served as British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1768 and opposed harsh colonial policies. In 1907, parts of Chatham County and Moore County were combined to form Lee County, george Moses Horton, Historic Poet Laureate of Chatham County, lived most of his life in Chatham County and is among the few slaves to have published material while still a slave. Moncure once served as the westernmost inland port in the state, on March 25,2010, the Chatham County Courthouse, built in 1881, caught fire while undergoing renovations. For more information, see Pittsboro, North Carolina, spanning the southern border of Chatham County, the Deep River Coal Field contains the only known potentially economic bituminous coal deposits in the state. Coal was mined here artisanally in colonial times, and commercially beginning from the early 1850s, the communities of Carbonton and Cumnock developed with the coal mining industry. Much of the coal mined in the field during the Civil War was used for Confederate operations. The Coal Glen Mine Disaster of the 1920s, frequent flooding by the Deep River, the depth of the coal seam, the county was long dependent on agriculture as the basis of the economy. The areas relatively unfertile natural soil conditions, did not support the cultivation of commodity crops such as tobacco. The production of livestock has always more important to the county, especially the breeding of cattle. The county once had a dairy industry, but in recent years most farms have been sold. The county is one of the leaders in the poultry industry. Forage crops such as hay are grown in large quantities in the county. Carolina Farm Stewardship Association has been housed in Chatham County along with organic agriculture farmers including Councilman Farms. Industrial growth in the county has been focused around the Siler City and Moncure areas of the county, companies in that area include, Progress Energy, Boise Cascade, Honeywell, and Arauco. Brick manufacturing, which use of the local red clay soil, has been an important economic factor in the Moncure area, with several brick plants operating there. 3M operates a mine south of Pittsboro along US 15-501
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Durham County, North Carolina
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Durham County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 267,587, the county was formed on April 17,1881, from parts of Orange County and Wake County, taking the name of its own county seat. In 1911 parts of Cedar Fork Township of Wake County was transferred to Durham County, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 298 square miles, of which 286 square miles is land and 12 square miles is water. The population density was 769 people per square mile, there were 95,452 housing units at an average density of 329 per square mile. 7. 63% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,30. 00% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the family size was 2.99. In the county, the age distribution was as follows,22. 90% under the age of 18,12. 80% from 18 to 24,34. 80% from 25 to 44,19. 80% from 45 to 64, the median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 93.00 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.70 males. The median income for a household in the county was $43,337, males had a median income of $35,939 versus $30,683 for females. The per capita income for the county was $23,156, about 9. 80% of families and 13. 40% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17. 20% of those under age 18 and 12. 30% of those age 65 or over. Durham County is a member of the regional Triangle J Council of Governments, each elected member serves a four-year term. All other towns and places within Durham County are unincorporated communities
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Edgecombe County, North Carolina
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Edgecombe County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,552, Edgecombe County is part of the Rocky Mount, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1741 from Bertie County and it was named for Richard Edgcumbe, a Member of Parliament from 1701 to 1742 and a lord of the treasury, who became 1st Baron Edgcumbe in 1742. In 1746 part of Edgecombe County became Granville County, in 1758 another portion became Halifax County, and in 1777 yet another part became Nash County. In 1855 the formation of Wilson County from parts of Edgecombe County, Johnston County, Nash County, Edgecombe County was historically home to the Tuscarora Indians. Although most migrated north to New York in the 18th century, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 507 square miles, of which 505 square miles is land and 1.3 square miles is water. 57. 4% were Black or African American,38. 8% White,0. 3% Native American,0. 2% Asian,2. 3% of some other race and 1. 0% of two or more races. As of the census of 2000, there were 55,606 people,20,392 households, the population density was 110 people per square mile. There were 24,002 housing units at a density of 48 per square mile. 2. 79% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 00% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the family size was 3.16. In the county, the population was out with 27. 10% under the age of 18,8. 60% from 18 to 24,28. 40% from 25 to 44,23. 40% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 86.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.80 males, the median income for a household in the county was $30,983, and the median income for a family was $35,902. Males had an income of $27,300 versus $21,649 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,435, about 16. 00% of families and 19. 60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 50% of those under age 18 and 18. 40% of those age 65 or over. Edgecombe County is a member of the regional Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments, the North Carolina Department of Corrections previously operated the Fountain Correctional Center for Women in an unincorporated area in the county, near Rocky Mount. Edgecombe County Public Schools has 15 schools ranging from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade and these are separated into five high schools, four middle schools, and six elementary schools
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Franklin County, North Carolina
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Franklin County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 60,619, the county was formed in 1779 from the southern half of Bute County. It is named for Benjamin Franklin and it is a part of the Research Triangle. The words were written by Fred U, Wolfe, an agriculture teacher at Gold Sand. Sung to the tune Maryland, My Maryland, the song was incorporated in the Bicentennial programs of 1979, at the evening convocation of January 29, Mrs. Beth Norris announced to the audience that Wolfe was aware his song was part of the program that night. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 494 square miles. The population density was 123 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 66. 0% White,26. 7% Black or African American,0. 5% Native American,0. 5% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,4. 4% from other races, and 1. 8% from two or more races. 7. 9% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 3.04. In the county, the population was out with 27. 3% under the age of 20,5. 5% from 20 to 24,26. 2% from 25 to 44,28. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.1 years, for every 100 females there were 99.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.0 males, the median income for a household in the county was $41,696, and the median income for a family was $51,353. Males had an income of $41,025 versus $34,562 for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,399, about 12. 3% of families and 16. 1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20. 6% of those under age 18 and 13. 7% of those age 65 or over. There were 26,577 housing units at a density of 54 per square mile. 13. 4% of housing units were vacant, there were 23,023 occupied housing units in the town. 17,029 were owner-occupied units, while 5,994 were renter-occupied, the homeowner vacancy rate was 2. 4% of total units
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Granville County, North Carolina
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Granville County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 59,916, Granville County comprises the Oxford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Combined Statistical Area. The county includes access to Kerr Lake and Falls Lake and is included in the Roanoke, Tar, the county was formed in 1746 from Edgecombe County. The claim was established as consisting of approximately the half of North Carolina. In 1752, parts of Granville County, Bladen County, in 1764, the eastern part of Granville County became Bute County. Finally, in 1881, parts of Granville County, Franklin County, John Penn was an affluent politician of early America, as he was one of the three signers from North Carolina to sign the Declaration of Independence. After earning his admittance to the bar, Penn moved to Granville County in 1774, the county had become the hub of Carolina’s independence campaign. Later, John Penn, with Cornelius Harnett and John Williams, Penn retired to Granville County, and he died at a relatively young age of 48 years in 1788. His remains are interred at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, like most early counties on the eastern side of the early North Carolina colony, Granville was site of the Tuscarora uprising. Once the natives were defeated after the Tuscarora War, Virginia farmers and their families settled Granville County and they focused on producing tobacco. Slave labor proved vital to the economy of the region. During the Civil War, more than 2,000 men from Granville County served the Confederacy, one company was known as the “Granville Grays. ”Most in this regiment fought in most major battles during the war. Surprisingly, many survived until the end of the war, many African Americans in Granville County were free before the start of the Civil War, and they made lasting contributions to the region, particularly through their skilled labor. Several black masons constructed homes for the wealthy landowners. Additionally, the bright tobacco crop proved a successful agricultural product for Granville County. The sandy soil and a new tobacco crop could be proved a great incentive to farmers. According to historian William S. Powell, Granville has remained a top tobacco-producing county in North Carolina for several decades. By the late 1800s and early 1900s, Oxford had become a town with new industries, schools, literary institutions
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Harnett County, North Carolina
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Harnett County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 114,678 and its county seat is Lillington, and its largest city is Dunn. Harnett County was formed in 1855 from land given by Cumberland County and it was named for American Revolutionary war soldier Cornelius Harnett, who was also a delegate to the Continental Congress. The first settlers came to the region in the mid-1720s, and were followed by Highland Scots immigrants, the Scots settled in the foothills, where land was more affordable, rather than in the rich alluvial soil area of the coastal plain. After the defeat by the British of Bonny Prince Charles at Culloden, Scots immigrants came up the Cape Fear River in ever increasing numbers, British immigrants had settled primarily along the banks of the Cape Fear River in the coastal area, generally from Erwin to Wilmington. During the American Revolutionary War, many of the Scots were Loyalists, in their defeat in Scotland, they had been forced to take ironclad vows that prohibited taking up arms against the British. Some Rebels considered them traitors to the cause of Independence, public executions of suspected spies occurred. One site near Lillington was the scene of an execution of Scots Traitors. During the Carolinas Campaign the Left Wing of General William Shermans army under the command of Maj, General Henry W. Slocum defeated the army of General William Hardee in the Battle of Averasborough and proceeded eastward. A centennial celebration of the event was held in 1965 at the site of the battlefield. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 601 square miles. The population density was 153 people per square mile, there were 38,605 housing units at an average density of 65 per square mile. 5. 86% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,23. 30% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the family size was 3.07. In the county, the population was out with 27. 00% under the age of 18,10. 60% from 18 to 24,32. 10% from 25 to 44,19. 90% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 97.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.00 males, the median income for a household in the county was $35,105, and the median income for a family was $41,176. Males had an income of $30,265 versus $22,283 for females
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Johnston County, North Carolina
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Johnston County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 168,878, the county was formed in 1746 from Craven County. It was named for Gabriel Johnston, Governor of North Carolina from 1734 to 1752, in 1752 parts of Johnston County, Bladen County, and Granville County were combined to form Orange County. In 1758 the eastern part of Johnston County became Dobbs County, in 1770 parts of Johnston County, Cumberland County, and Orange County were combined to form Wake County. Finally, in 1855 parts of Johnston County, Edgecombe County, Nash County, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 796 square miles, of which 791 square miles is land and 4.2 square miles is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 121,965 people,46,595 households, the population density was 154 people per square mile. There were 50,196 housing units at a density of 63 per square mile. 7. 74% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,23. 10% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the family size was 3.02. In the county, the population was out with 26. 10% under the age of 18,8. 10% from 18 to 24,34. 20% from 25 to 44,21. 70% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 98.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.30 males, the median income for a household in the county was $40,872, and the median income for a family was $48,599. Males had an income of $33,008 versus $25,582 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,788, about 8. 90% of families and 12. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16. 00% of those under age 18 and 19. 40% of those age 65 or over. The county is governed by the Johnston County Board of Commissioners, the commissioners enact policies such as establishment of the property tax rate, regulation of land use and zoning outside municipal jurisdictions, and adoption of the annual budget. Johnston County is a member of the regional Triangle J Council of Governments, Johnston County 911 is the first 911 Agency in North Carolina to hold Tri Accreditation from the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch in Fire, Police, and EMD Protocols. Johnston County is home to Johnston Community College, a public, two-year, post-secondary college located in Smithfield, the college has off-campus centers throughout Johnston County. Public education in Johnston County is served by the Johnston County School District, in addition, one charter schools and five private schools are located in the county
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Lee County, North Carolina
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Lee County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 57,866. It was established on March 6,1907, from parts of Chatham and Moore counties, and named for General Robert E. Lee, who served as the General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 259 square miles. The population density was 191 people per square mile, there were 19,909 housing units at an average density of 77 per square mile. 11. 65% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, by 200514. 2% of the County population was Latino. 20. 2% of the population was African-American,64. 2% of the population was non-Hispanic whites. 23. 50% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.05. In the county, the population was out with 25. 70% under the age of 18,9. 00% from 18 to 24,29. 70% from 25 to 44,22. 70% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 97.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.00 males, the median income for a household in the county was $38,900, and the median income for a family was $45,373. Males had an income of $32,780 versus $23,660 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,147, about 9. 80% of families and 12. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16. 50% of those under age 18 and 12. 20% of those age 65 or over. Lee County is a member of the regional Triangle J Council of Governments, the county is governed by a seven-member board of County Commissioners, elected at large to serve four-year terms. Terms are staggered so that, every two years, three or four Commissioners are up for election, the Commissioners enact policies such as establishment of the property tax rate, regulation of land use and zoning outside municipal jurisdictions, and adoption of the annual budget. Commissioners usually meet on the first and third Mondays of each month, cotton and tobacco are leading crops in the county. The county is divided between the Piedmont in the part of the county and the Sandhills in the south. Lee County sits in the middle of the Triassic Basin and has the states most concentrated reserves of oil and natural gas
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Moore County, North Carolina
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Moore County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 88,247 and its county seat is Carthage and its largest town is Pinehurst. Moore County comprises the Aberdeen- Pinehurst-Southern Pines, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Research Triangle. It lies at the edge of the area known as the Sandhills region. The county was formed in 1785 from Cumberland County and it was named after Alfred Moore, an officer in the American Revolutionary War and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1907 parts of Moore County and Chatham County were combined to form Lee County, Moore County has many golf resorts in the Southern Pines/Pinehurst area, and hosted the 1996 and 2001 Womens U. S. Opens as well as the 1999 and 2005 Mens U. S. Opens, the Womens Open returned to Southern Pines in 2007. In 2014, they consecutively hosted both the Womens and Mens Opens in the year, a first in U. S. Open history. Celebrities who frequent or have homes in the area are Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus. Past residents of the area include Annie Oakley, Harvey Firestone, John Edwards, Charles Brady, Shannon Moore, Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy, were raised in Moore County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 706 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 88,247 people,34,625 households, the population density was 107 people per square mile. There were 44,468 housing units at a density of 50 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 82. 8% White,13. 4% Black or African American,0. 9% Native American,1. 0% Asian,0. 2% Pacific Islander,2. 20% from other races, and 0. 88% from two or more races. 6. 1% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, by 200578. 0% of the county population was non-Hispanic whites. 5. 1% of the population was Latino,14. 8% of the population was African-American. 24. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.81. In the county, the population was out with 21. 2% under the age of 18,6. 60% from 18 to 24,25. 80% from 25 to 44,23. 80% from 45 to 64
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Orange County, North Carolina
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Orange County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 133,801 and it is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an institution of the University of North Carolina System and the oldest state-supported university in the United States. The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen County, Granville County and it was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic. In 1771, Orange County was greatly reduced in area, the western part of it was combined with the eastern part of Rowan County to form Guilford County. Another part was combined with parts of Cumberland County and Johnston County to form Wake County, the southern part of what remained became Chatham County. In 1777, the half of what was left of Orange County became Caswell County. In 1849, the third of the still-shrinking county became Alamance County. Finally, in 1881, the half of the countys remaining territory was combined with part of Wake County to form Durham County. Some of the first settlers of the county were English Quakers, arguably, the earliest settlers in the county were the Andrews family, which would later marry into the Lloyd family. The Orange County county seat of Hillsborough was founded in 1754 on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River and was first owned, surveyed, originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town, and renamed Childsburgh in 1759. It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies, Hillsborough was an earlier Piedmont colonial town where court was held, and was the scene of some pre-Revolutionary War tensions. In the late 1760s, tensions between Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the Regulator movement or, as it was known, the War of the Regulation, which had its epicenter in Hillsborough. With specie scarce, many inland farmers found themselves unable to pay their taxes, local sheriffs sometimes kept taxes for their own gain and sometimes charged twice for the same tax. At times, sheriffs would intentionally remove records of their tax collection in order to tax citizens. The most heavily affected areas were said to be that of Rowan, Anson, Orange, Granville and it is estimated that out of the 8,000 people living in Orange County at the time, some six or seven thousand of them were in support of the Regulators. Governor William Tryons conspicuous consumption in the construction of a new mansion at New Bern fuelled the movements resentment. As the western districts were under-represented in the legislature, it was difficult for the farmers to obtain redress by legislative means. Ultimately, the farmers took to arms and closed the court in Hillsborough, dragging those they saw as corrupt officials through the streets
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Person County, North Carolina
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Person County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. The population was 39,464 at the 2010 census and it is located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The Hyco Lake area and southern portion of the county are the fastest growing with new businesses, the colonial government established Person County as part of Edgecombe County in 1746. County designations kept changing, as it was part of Granville County from 1746–1752, included in Orange County until 1778, by dividing Caswell County into two squares–each side measuring approximately twenty miles in length, the settlers formed two counties of 400 square miles each. The county was named after Brigadier General Thomas Person, a Revolutionary War patriot, the area was inhabited by indigenous peoples, ancestors of the Native Americans, for 12,000 years, during which time they developed differing cultures. The historical tribes encountered here by early Spanish explorers were generally Siouan-speaking, including the Saponi, Occaneechee, settlement by immigrants of Scots, Scots-Irish, English, French Huguenot, and German ancestry began in the mid-17th and continued into the 19th centuries. The settlers tended to be farmers, and few owned any slaves. Religious affiliation in the county reflects the early northern European cultural base and is predominantly Protestant, the county was named for Brigadier General Thomas Person, a Revolutionary War patriot, who made significant contributions to Person County and surrounding areas. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his generous donations were recognized by the construction and naming of Person Hall. He was captured and held on the prison ship Torbay, in 1775-1776 he purchased property in the south of Person County and named his plantation Mt. Tirzah. His home, constructed in 1778, has been renovated recently, stephen Moore was buried in the family cemetery. During the Civil War, Person County supplied between 800 and 1000 soldiers to the Confederate Army, a granite monument at the Courthouse honors E. Fletcher Satterfield, who carried the Confederate flag at Gettysburg. Long were key leaders who helped make a transition to a diversified economic base after the Civil War. The arrival of the newly constructed Norfolk and Western Railroad was a major influence around 1890, as it enabled the addition of tobacco processing plants, although the processing plants disappeared many years ago, a few of the warehouses still stand. Long established Peoples Bank in 1891 and the Roxboro Cotton Mill in 1899 and his home at Roxboro, the James A. and Laura Thompson Long House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Long died in 1915 but was succeeded by his son, J. A, Long, Jr. who began attracting new business to Roxboro. Baker Company opened here in 1923, making textile manufacturing a major contributor to the economy for decades. Baker was merged with Collins and Aikman Corporation, becoming an industry in Person County for several decades before closing in August 2006
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Vance County, North Carolina
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Vance County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,422, the county was formed by the white Democratic-dominated legislature in 1881 following the Reconstruction Era from parts of Franklin, Granville, and Warren counties. The county is named after Zebulon Baird Vance, a Governor of North Carolina, according to the 1955 book, Zebs Black Baby, by Samuel Thomas Peace, Sr. It was in 1881 when Blacks in large numbers were voting solidly Republican, Granville and Franklin Counties were nip and tuck, Democratic or Republican. From the Democratic standpoint, Warren County was hopelessly Republican and he took kindly to this move and thanked the Legislature for honoring him with naming the new county after him. At the same time. Vance showed his humor by referring to Vance County as Zebs Black Baby. In the 1890 Census, Vance County was more than 63 percent African American, in 1894 a biracial coalition of Populists and Republicans elected African American George M. White to the US Congress and gained control of the state house. The Democrats were determined to forestall this happening again, White strongly opposed the new constitution, saying I cannot live in North Carolina and be a man and be treated as a man. He left the state after his term expired, setting up a business in Washington. Contemporary accounts estimated that 75,000 black male citizens of the state lost the vote, in 1900 blacks numbered 630,207 citizens, about 33% of the states total population. This situation held until past the century and after passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 270 square miles. Kerr Lake and Kerr Lake State Recreation Area are partially located in Vance County, combined with other economic changes, this resulted in the county losing what had been its large African-American majority by the late 20th century. In the early 21st century, the white and black populations are nearly equal, as of the census of 2000, there were 42,954 people,16,199 households, and 11,647 families residing in the county. The population density was 169 people per square mile, there were 18,196 housing units at an average density of 72 per square mile. 4. 56% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 20% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the family size was 3.06. The county had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state for the year 2005 as researched by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina, the rate was 110.4 per 1000 teens, significantly above the state average of 61.7 per 1000 teens
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Wake County, North Carolina
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Wake County is a county in the US state of North Carolina. As of July 1,2015, the population was 1,024,198 and its county seat is Raleigh, which is also the state capital. Eleven other municipalities are in Wake County, the largest of which is Cary, the third largest city of the Research Triangle region and the seventh largest municipality in North Carolina. It is governed by the Wake County Board of Commissioners, coterminous with the Wake County Public School System school district and it is also part of the wider Triangle J Council of Governments which governs regional planning. Present day Wake County was once part of the Tuscarora nation, Wake County was formed in 1771 from parts of Cumberland County, Johnston County, and Orange County. The first courthouse was built at a village originally called Wake Courthouse, in 1771, the first elections and court were held, and the first militia units were organized. Wake County lost some of its territory through the formation of other counties, parts were included in Franklin County in 1787, and in Durham County in both 1881 and 1911. During the colonial period of North Carolina, the capital was New Bern. For several years during and after the Revolutionary War there was no capital, fayetteville was the state capital from 1789 to 1793, when Raleigh became the permanent state capital. In 1792, a commission was appointed to select a site to build a permanent state capital, the next day, the vote went in Lanes favor. Lane named Wake County in honor of Margaret Wake, wife of colonial Governor William Tryon, Raleigh was named after Sir Walter Raleigh, and established in 1792 on 1,000 acres purchased from Lane. Raleigh had never set foot in North Carolina, but he had sponsored the establishment of the first English colony in North America on North Carolinas Roanoke Island in 1585, the city of Raleigh became both the state capital and the new seat of Wake County. The Battle at Morrisville Station was fought April 13–15,1865 in Morrisville and it was the last official battle of the Civil War between the armies of Major General William T. Sherman and General Joseph E. Johnston. General Judson Kilpatrick, commanding officer of the Union cavalry advance, compelled Confederate forces under the command of Generals Wade Hampton III, however, the trains were able to withdraw with wounded from the Battle of Bentonville and the Battle of Averasboro. Later, General Johnston sent a courier to the Federal encampments at Morrisville with a message for Major General Sherman requesting a conference to discuss an armistice. Several days later the two met at Bennett Place near Durham on April 17,1865 to begin discussing the terms of what would become the largest surrender of the war. In the 20th century, the average per capita income for the county was of $54,988, in the same period, the per capita income decreased from $44.472 to $31.579 especially for women. About 7. 80% of the population was under the national poverty, in August 2014, the population hit 1,000,000 people
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Warren County, North Carolina
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Warren County is a county located in the northeastern Piedmont region of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,972 and it was a center of tobacco and cotton plantations, and later textile mills. The county is home to the historic Haliwa-Saponi Indian tribe, which has received state recognition, the county was formed in 1779 from the northern half of Bute County. It was named for Joseph Warren of Massachusetts, a physician, developed as tobacco and cotton plantations, the county generated considerable wealth for white planters in the antebellum years, wealth built on the labor of slaves. Its county seat of Warrenton became a center of commerce and was one of the wealthiest towns in the state from 1840 to 1860, many planters built fine homes there. In the later nineteenth century, the county developed textile mills, in 1881, parts of Warren County, Franklin County, and Granville County were combined to form Vance County. In the late nineteenth and early centuries, Warren Countys continued reliance on agriculture slowed its development. Many residents migrated to cities for work, since the late 20th century, county residents have worked to attract other industrial and business development. Soul City, a community development, was funded by the Department of Housing. It has not been successful in attracting business and industry, and has not developed as housing as intended. Beginning in 1982, Warren County was the site of the Warren County PCB Landfill, residents of the county have pursued a long environmental justice struggle to remove dangerous pollutants from the site, to improve the health of citizens. The site was not made safe until 2004, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 444 square miles, of which 428 square miles is land and 15 square miles is water. 52. 3% were Black or African American,38. 8% White,5. 0% Native American,0. 2% Asian,2. 0% of some other race and 1. 6% of two or more races. As of the census of 2000, there were 19,972 people,7,708 households, the population density was 47 people per square mile. There were 10,548 housing units at a density of 25 per square mile. 1. 59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,26. 20% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the family size was 2.97. In the county, the population was out with 23. 50% under the age of 18,8. 00% from 18 to 24,26. 30% from 25 to 44,24. 80% from 45 to 64
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1970 United States Census
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Microdata from the 1970 census are freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files and these data were originally created and disseminated by DUALabs. Personally identifiable information will be available in 2042, california took over as the most populous state, New York had previously been ranked number one. While the entire country increased to more than 204 million persons, four states lost population with West Virginia leading the list, down 8, historic US Census data 1971 U. S Census Report, with estimated 1970 Census results 1970 Census of Population
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1980 United States Census
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Approximately 16 percent of households received a long form of the 1980 census, which contained over 100 questions. Full documentation on the 1980 census, including forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Microdata from the 1980 census are available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, personally identifiable information will be available in 2052. Between the 1980 census and the 1990 census, the United States population increased by approximately 22,164,837 or 9. 8%, historic US Census data 1981 U. S Census Report Contains 1980 Census results
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1990 United States Census
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Approximately 16 percent of households received a long form of the 1990 census, which contained over 100 questions. Full documentation on the 1990 census, including forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. It was the first census to designate Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander as a group separate from Asians. To increase black participation in the 1990 United States Census, the bureau recruited Bill Cosby, Magic Johnson, Alfre Woodard, the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, personally identifiable information will be available in 2062. The results of the 1990 census determined the number of seats that each state receives in the United States House of Representatives starting with the 1992 elections, consequently, this affected the number of votes each state has in the Electoral College for the 1992 presidential election. Because of population changes, twenty-one states had changes in their number of seats, eight states gained at least one seat, and thirteen states lost at least one seat. The final result involved 19 seats being switched
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2000 United States Census
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This was the twenty-second federal census and was at the time the largest civilly administered peacetime effort in the United States. Approximately 16 percent of households received a form of the 2000 census. Full documentation on the 2000 census, including forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Microdata from the 2000 census is available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, personally identifiable information will be available in 2072. The U. S. resident population includes the number of people in the 50 states. The Bureau also enumerated the residents of the U. S. territory of Puerto Rico, its population was 3,808,610, the 2000 Census was the first time survey options for multiracial Americans were provided. S. Households had access to computers, 42% have Internet access, regionally, the South and West experienced the bulk of the nations population increase,14,790,890 and 10,411,850, respectively. This meant that the center of U. S. population moved to Phelps County. The Northeast grew by 2,785,149, the Midwest by 4,724,144, the results of the census are used to determine how many congressional districts each state is apportioned. Congress defines the formula, in accordance with Title 2 of the U. S. Code, each member of the House represents a population of about 647,000. The populations of the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are excluded from the apportionment population because they do not have voting seats in the U. S, since the first census in 1790, the decennial count has been the basis for the United States representative form of government. Article I, Section II specifies that The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, in 1790, each member of the House represented about 34,000 residents. Since then, the House more than quadrupled in size, today, each member represents about 20 times as many constituents. This recommendation was followed by the Secretary of Commerce, after the census was tabulated, Utah challenged the results in two different ways. Utah was extremely close to gaining a fourth seat, falling 857 people short. The margin was later shortened to 80 people, after the government discovered that it overcounted the population of North Carolina by 2,673 residents. Utah claimed that individuals traveling abroad as religious missionaries should be counted as residents, almost half of all Mormon missionaries, more than 11,000 individuals, were from Utah, only 102 came from North Carolina
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2010 United States Census
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The 2010 United States Census, is the twenty-third and currently most recent United States national census. National Census Day, the day used for the census, was April 1,2010. As part of a drive to increase the accuracy,635,000 temporary enumerators were hired. The population of the United States was counted as 308,745,538, as required by the United States Constitution, the U. S. census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. The 2000 U. S. Census was the previous census completed, participation in the U. S. Census is required by law in Title 13 of the United States Code. On January 25,2010, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves personally inaugurated the 2010 Census enumeration by counting World War II veteran Clifton Jackson, more than 120 million census forms were delivered by the U. S. Post Office beginning March 15,2010, the number of forms mailed out or hand-delivered by the Census Bureau was approximately 134 million on April 1,2010. The 2010 Census national mail participation rate was 74%, from April through July 2010, census takers visited households that did not return a form, an operation called non-response follow-up. In December 2010, the Census Bureau delivered population information to the president for apportionment, personally identifiable information will be available in 2082. The Census Bureau did not use a form for the 2010 Census. In several previous censuses, one in six households received this long form, the 2010 Census used only a short form asking ten basic questions, How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1,2010. Were there any additional people staying here on April 1,2010 that you did not include in Question 1, mark all that apply, Is this house, apartment, or mobile home – What is your telephone number. What is Person 1s age and Person 1s date of birth, is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin. Does Person 1 sometimes live or stay somewhere else, the form included space to repeat some or all of these questions for up to twelve residents total. In contrast to the 2000 census, an Internet response option was not offered, detailed socioeconomic information collected during past censuses will continue to be collected through the American Community Survey. The survey provides data about communities in the United States on a 1-year or 3-year cycle, depending on the size of the community, rather than once every 10 years. A small percentage of the population on a basis will receive the survey each year. In June 2009, the U. S. Census Bureau announced that it would count same-sex married couples, however, the final form did not contain a separate same-sex married couple option
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United States Census Bureau
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The United States Census Bureau is a principal agency of the U. S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureaus primary mission is conducting the U. S. Census every ten years, in addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts dozens of other censuses and surveys, including the American Community Survey, the U. S. Economic Census, and the Current Population Survey, furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the Census Bureau. The Bureaus various censuses and surveys help allocate over $400 billion in federal funds every year and help states, local communities, the Census Bureau is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of the United States. The Census Bureau now conducts a population count every 10 years in years ending with a 0. Between censuses, the Census Bureau makes population estimates and projections, the Census Bureau is mandated with fulfilling these obligations, the collecting of statistics about the nation, its people, and economy. The Census Bureaus legal authority is codified in Title 13 of the United States Code, the Census Bureau also conducts surveys on behalf of various federal government and local government agencies on topics such as employment, crime, health, consumer expenditures, and housing. Within the bureau, these are known as surveys and are conducted perpetually between and during decennial population counts. The Census Bureau also conducts surveys of manufacturing, retail, service. Between 1790 and 1840, the census was taken by marshals of the judicial districts, the Census Act of 1840 established a central office which became known as the Census Office. Several acts followed that revised and authorized new censuses, typically at the 10-year intervals, in 1902, the temporary Census Office was moved under the Department of Interior, and in 1903 it was renamed the Census Bureau under the new Department of Commerce and Labor. The department was intended to consolidate overlapping statistical agencies, but Census Bureau officials were hindered by their role in the department. An act in 1920 changed the date and authorized manufacturing censuses every 2 years, in 1929, a bill was passed mandating the House of Representatives be reapportioned based on the results of the 1930 Census. In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code, by law, the Census Bureau must count everyone and submit state population totals to the U. S. President by December 31 of any year ending in a zero. States within the Union receive the results in the spring of the following year, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. The Census Bureau regions are widely used. for data collection, the Census Bureau definition is pervasive. Title 13 of the U. S. Code establishes penalties for the disclosure of this information, all Census employees must sign an affidavit of non-disclosure prior to employment. The Bureau cannot share responses, addresses or personal information with anyone including United States or foreign government, only after 72 years does the information collected become available to other agencies or the general public
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Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Fayetteville is a city in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, Fayetteville has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League three times. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 200,564 and it is the sixth-largest municipality in North Carolina. Fayetteville is in the Sandhills in the part of the Coastal Plain region, on the Cape Fear River. With an estimated population in 2013 of 210,533 people, the Fayetteville metropolitan area is the largest in southeastern North Carolina, suburban areas of metro Fayetteville include Fort Bragg, Hope Mills, Spring Lake, Raeford, Pope Field, Rockfish, Stedman, and Eastover. Fayettevilles mayor is Nat Robertson, who is serving his second term, the area of present-day Fayetteville was historically inhabited by various Siouan Native American peoples, such as the Eno, Shakori, Waccamaw, Keyauwee, and Cape Fear people. They followed successive cultures of indigenous peoples in the area for more than 12,000 years. Two inland settlements, Cross Creek and Campbellton, were established by Scots from Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, merchants in Wilmington wanted a town on the Cape Fear River to secure trade with the frontier country. They were afraid people would use the Pee Dee River and transport their goods to Charleston, the merchants bought land from Newberry in Cross Creek. Campbellton became a place where poor whites and free blacks lived, Fayetteville was the first city to be named in his honor in the United States. Lafayette visited the city on March 4 and 5,1825, the local region was heavily settled by Scots in the mid/late 1700s, and most of these were Gaelic-speaking Highlanders. The vast majority of Highland Scots, recent immigrants, remained loyal to the British government, despite this, they were eventually defeated by a larger Revolutionary force at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. The area also included a number of active Revolutionaries, in late June 1775, residents drew up the Liberty Point Resolves, which preceded the Declaration of Independence by a little more than a year. Robert Rowan, who organized the group, signed first. Robert Rowan was one of the leading public figures of the 18th century. A merchant and entrepreneur, he settled in Cross Creek in the 1760s and he served as an officer in the French and Indian War, as sheriff, justice and legislator, and as a leader of the Patriot cause in the Revolutionary War. Rowan Street and Rowan Park in Fayetteville and a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are named for him, though Rowan County was named for his uncle. Flora MacDonald, a Scots Highland woman known for aiding Bonnie Prince Charlie after his Highlander armys defeat at Culloden in 1746 and she was a staunch Loyalist and aided her husband to raise the local Scots to fight for the King against the Revolution
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Media market
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They can coincide or overlap with one or more metropolitan areas, though rural regions with few significant population centers can also be designated as markets. Conversely, very large areas can sometimes be subdivided into multiple segments. Market regions may overlap, meaning that people residing on the edge of one market may be able to receive content from other nearby markets. They are widely used in measurements, which are compiled in the United States by Nielsen Media Research. Nielsen measures both television and radio audiences since its acquisition of Arbitron, which was completed in September 2013, markets are identified by the largest city, which are usually located in the center of the market region. In the United States, radio markets are generally a bit smaller than their counterparts, as broadcast power restrictions are stricter for radio than TV. AM band and FM band radio ratings are separated, as are broadcast. This information is used by advertisers to determine how to reach a specific audience, a Television Market Area is a group of counties in the United States covered by a specific group of television stations. The term is used by the U. S, governments Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadcast, cable, and satellite transmissions, according to the Code of Federal Regulations, at 47 CFR §76.51 and FCC. gov. The TMAs not only have control over local broadcasts. These market areas can also be used to define restrictions on rebroadcasting of broadcast television signals, generally speaking, only stations within the same market area can be rebroadcast. The only exception to rule is the significantly viewed list. Virtually all of the United States is located within the boundaries of exactly one TMA, a similar term used by Nielsen Media Research is the Designated Market Area, and they control the trademark on it. DMAs are used by Nielsen Media Research to identify TV stations that best reach an area, there are 210 Nielsen DMAs in the United States,56 of which are metered. TMAs may cover a larger area than the stations that serve it. This is particularly true in markets that have hilly or mountainous terrain that is ill-suited for digital broadcasting, in these cases, the outlying areas of a TMA may only be served by cable and satellite, or perhaps by small translators. Conversely, a small market such as Erie, Pennsylvania may have stations where their signal spills well over into neighboring TMAs. Arbitron at one time also maintained similar areas for television ratings, there were 286 ADIs in the United States
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Cary, North Carolina
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Cary /ˈkæri/ is the seventh largest municipality in North Carolina. Cary is in Wake and Chatham counties in the U. S. state of North Carolina, located almost entirely in Wake County, it is the second largest municipality in that county and the third largest municipality in The Triangle after Raleigh and Durham. The towns population was 135,234 as of the 2010 census, making it the largest town, the U. S. Census Bureau estimates the towns population to be 159,769 as of July 1,2015. Cary is currently the second most populous incorporated town in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau, Cary was the 5th fastest growing municipality in the United States between September 1,2006, and September 1,2007. Cary is often considered one of the safest places to live in the US, Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina, has a violent crime rate of 648 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, almost 8 times higher than Cary. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill make up the three primary areas of the Research Triangle metropolitan region even though today Cary is the 3rd largest municipality in the metropolitan area. The regional nickname of The Triangle originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, primarily located in Durham County and this resulted in the formation of the Raleigh-Cary, NC Metro Area and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metro Area. The Research Triangle region encompasses OMBs Combined Statistical Area of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill in the central Piedmont region of North Carolina, as of 2012, the population of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill CSA was 1,998,808. The Raleigh-Cary Metropolitan Statistical Area as of Census 2010 was 1,130,490, located in the Piedmont region of the eastern United States, Cary is near North Carolinas Research Triangle. It is edged on the north and east by Raleigh, on the north and west by Research Triangle Park and Morrisville, on the south by Apex and Holly Springs, the town is hilly, with much of the undeveloped land covered in dense woods. Several creeks and small lakes dot the area, most notably Lake Crabtree in the north, nearly all of Cary is in western Wake County, with neighborhood-sized sections in the northeast corner of Chatham County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 43.5 square miles. 42.1 square miles of it is land and 1.4 square miles of it is water, more recent Cary records show that as of 2010 the town has a total area of 55.34 mi². Cary has a subtropical climate under the Köppen climate classification system. It receives hot summers and mildly cold winters, with months of pleasant weather each year. Temperature extremes here range from the negatives to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, hurricanes and tropical storms can affect Cary, usually after weakening substantially from being over land. Some, such as Hurricane Fran in 1996, have caused damage in the area. Snow falls every year, averaging around 6 inches annually, Cary is divided into distinct east and west sections
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Apex, North Carolina
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Apex is a town in Wake County, North Carolina and a suburb of Raleigh. The U. S. Census Bureau estimates the population to be 43,907 as of July 1,2014. In August 2015, Apex was rated #1 in Money Magazines Best Places to Live,2015, Apex is located at 35°43′55″N 78°51′10″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 15.4 square miles. Neighboring towns include Cary to the north and northeast, Holly Springs to the south, Apex grew slowly through the succeeding decades, despite several devastating fires, including a June 12,1911 conflagration which destroyed most of the downtown business district. The town center was rebuilt and stands to day, now one of the most intact railroad towns in the state. At the heart of town stands the Apex Union Depot, originally a station for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The depot now houses the Apex Chamber of Commerce, Apex suffered mild setbacks during the Depression-era, but growth began again in earnest in the 1950s. The towns proximity to North Carolinas Research Triangle Park spurred additional residential development, during the 1990s, the towns population quadrupled to over 20,000, placing new demands upon Apexs infrastructure. Apex has continued to grow in recent years, a sizable shopping center was built at the intersection of Highway 55 and US64, and several new neighborhoods have been built as the town grows toward the west. In October 2006, a fire in an Apex waste processing facility forced much of the town to be temporarily evacuated. There were few injuries, and residents were soon able to return home. In August 2015, TIME magazine ranked Apex #1 on its list of the top places to live. In addition to the Apex Union Depot, the Apex City Hall, Apex Historic District, Calvin Wray Lawrence House, Apexs Council-Manager form of government has a mayor and five council members who are each elected at-large in staggered four-year terms. The towns attorney and manager serve at the pleasure of the council, all other staff report to the town manager and manage the towns day-to-day business. The town is led by Mayor Lance Olive, elected in 2015, Nicole Dozier was selected by her peers to serve as Mayor Pro Tempore. The council members, in order of tenure are, Bill Jensen, Gene Schulze, Nicole Dozier, Denise Wilkie, as of the census of 2010, there were 37,476 people,13,225 households, and 9,959 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,437.9 people per square mile, there were 13,922 housing units at an average density of 905.8 per square mile
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Carrboro, North Carolina
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Carrboro is a town in Orange County in the U. S. state of North Carolina. The population was 19,582 at the 2010 census, the town, which is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan statistical area, was named after North Carolina industrialist Julian Shakespeare Carr. Located directly west of Chapel Hill, home of the University of North Carolinas flagship campus and it was the first municipality in North Carolina to elect an openly gay mayor, Mike Nelson, in 1995 and the first municipality in the state to grant domestic-partner benefits to same-sex couples. In October 2002, Carrboro was among the first municipalities in the South to adopt resolutions opposing the Iraq War and the USA PATRIOT Act. The history of Carrboro is similar to the history of mill towns in North Carolina and largely parallels the histories of the State University Railroad. Located just west of Chapel Hill, Carrboro was originally known as West End and it was settled in 1882 near the railway depot at the terminus of the 10.2 mile State University Railroad spur from University Station in Glenn, North Carolina. State statute had decreed that the depot be at least one mile from the university campus to discourage students from leaving on the weekends. Settlement in West End increased after 1898 when Thomas F. Lloyd of Chapel Hill built a steam-powered grist mill near the depot and this would become the Alberta Cotton Mill, and in 1900 the town briefly called itself Lloydville in his honor. Durham businessman Julian Shakespeare Carr bought the mill and other buildings in 1909. A 1920s building boom in Carrboro sparked by a fire in the business district ended as business at the Durham Hosiery Mills declined towards the end of the decade. The Great Depression also took a toll and in 1930 the company closed Mill No. 4, the original Alberta Cotton Mill, passenger service on the train line ended in 1936. In 1938 Durham Hosiery Mills closed Mill No,7, across Main Street from Mill No. During World War II, Mill No.7 became the site of a munitions factory, after the war, Pacific Mills bought both Mills No.4 and 7 and operated them as Carrboro Woolen Mills. When Pacific Mills closed in the mid-1960s - the final activity at the mill was sorting and shipping BVD underwear - Carrboro was no able to depend upon the textile industry to sustain itself. The University of North Carolina and other businesses in the area were growing rapidly, the mill remained abandoned for nearly a decade and changed hands several times. In 1975 the owner, with the assent of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, a community petition and fund-raising effort provided for its restoration as Carr Mill Mall. Carrboro is located at 35°55′14″N 79°5′2″W, according to the US Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.5 square miles, of which 6.4 square miles is land and 0.03 square miles is water
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Clayton, North Carolina
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Clayton is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, and considered a satellite town of Raleigh. As of 2010, Claytons population was 16,116 people, much of that growth can be attributed to the towns close proximity to the Research Triangle area and access to major highways such as I-40, U. S.70, and NC42. In 2006, construction began on the Highway 70 Clayton Bypass and it was completed in June 2008. Town Hall is located at 111 East Second Street and it is shared with The Clayton Center Auditorium and Conference Center. The community which has grown into the Town of Clayton was built on a cut by Governor Tryon’s troops around 1770 as they marched North from New Bern to Hillsborough against the Regulators. Nearly 100 years later the railroad came through and the community had its first name—Stallings’ Station, the name lasted only three years, however before officially becoming Clayton. The new town was far from prosperous, and the Civil War made a local economy even worse. Many long-time citizens moved away during that period, but, following the war, the railroad was extended and businesses began to pop up. Ashley Horne developed a farming and merchandising business to become one of the most successful merchants. Horne’s success inspired two other men, McCullers and Barbour, to businesses that also did well, beginning an era of growth that lasted well into the next century. Some of the businesses that flourished during that time were lumber plants, a kiln, a cotton gin, a gristmill, a sawmill, tobacco warehouses, cotton mills. By the early 1900s, the town had become a market for cotton, watermelons. In 1907, the Raleigh Evening Times of nearby Raleigh wrote that there was “more money per capita in Clayton than any city its size in the world”. Unfortunately, the town lost its eminence in the 1930s with the onset of the Great Depression. The three local cotton mills continued to be a source of jobs during that time, with 1,000 employees. By the early 1960s the mills were gone and cotton was no longer a player in the local economy, but the tobacco industry was bustling and the population shot up for a while before settling back down as farming became less and less profitable. The state began to change during the 1970s, an industrial base began taking shape and residential growth was increasing in the Raleigh area nearby. Clayton’s workforce adapted, shifting to a more service/trades-oriented economy and the town began to once again
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Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
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Fuquay-Varina /ˈfjuːkweɪ vəˈriːnə/ is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 18,644 in 2012, the population was 17,937 at the 2010 census, up from 7,898 at the 2000 census. The town is a 25-minute drive south of Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, the hyphenated name attests to the towns history as two separate towns. Fuquay Springs and Varina merged in 1963 to create the modern town, economically, the town initially grew due to tobacco trade and agriculture, but has seen recent population growth and real estate development due to its proximity to Research Triangle Park. Fuquay-Varina is located at 35°35′31″N 78°47′19″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 12.2 square miles, of which 12.1 square miles is land and 0.08 square miles, or 0. 51%, is water. Fuquay-Varina is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina and this area is known as the fall line because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers. Its central Piedmont location situates Fuquay-Varina about three hours west of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, by car and four hours east of the Great Smoky Mountains, Fuquay-Varina enjoys a moderate subtropical climate, with moderate temperatures in the spring, fall, and winter. Summers are typically hot with high humidity, winter highs generally range in the low 50s°F with lows in the low-to-mid 30s°F, although an occasional 60 °F or warmer winter day is not uncommon. Spring and fall days usually reach the low-to-mid 70s°F, with lows at night in the lower 50s°F, summer daytime highs often reach the upper 80s to low 90s°F. The rainiest months are July and August, frenchman William Fuquay first settled in the small farming town of Sippihaw, named for the original Native American tribe that inhabited the area. Although there is no history of a tribe called Sippihaw, there are accounts in the area of a tribe called Susippihaw. In the mid-19th century while plowing the fields of the family plantation tobacco farmer Stephen Fuquay, great-grandson of William, originally the spring was used solely for drinking water. Stephen soon came to the conclusion that the water flowing from the springs had healing properties. As word spread, locals began to help the springs establish this reputation, the springs were eventually walled in to better serve the tourists coming to the area by road or rail. In 1860, Fuquay sold the springs to a group of investors who formed the Chalybeate Springs Company to market the attraction. At that time another Sippihaw resident, J. D, squire Ballentine, was returning home from the Civil War. Ballentine had been the town’s schoolmaster before going off to fight for the Confederate Army, during his tour of duty, he had received letters from one of many southern ladies who wrote to the troops to improve their morale. Originally signing her name Varina, perhaps an homage to the wife of Jefferson Davis, Virginia Avery would later meet and he continued to call her Varina throughout their life together
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Garner, North Carolina
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Garner is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States and a suburb of Raleigh. The population was estimated to be 27,814 as of July 1,2014, Garner is located at 35°41′54″N 78°37′22″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 14.8 square miles, of which 14.7 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles. Garner is located entirely within Wake County, there are unincorporated areas of Wake County and Johnston County that have Garner postal addresses, including a portion of the unincorporated, but densely populated, Cleveland Community. As of the census of 2000, there were 17,757 people,6,950 households, the population density was 1,385.1 people per square mile. There were 7,252 housing units at a density of 565.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 67. 02% White,27. 13% African American,0. 41% Native American,1. 11% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,2. 77% from other races, and 1. 54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 75% of the population,24. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the family size was 3.00. In the town, the population was out with 25. 0% under the age of 18,7. 9% from 18 to 24,33. 6% from 25 to 44,22. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.2 males, the median income for a household in the town was $47,380, and the median income for a family was $58,302. Males had an income of $37,359 versus $29,805 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,433, about 4. 9% of families and 6. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8. 9% of those under age 18 and 10. 1% of those age 65 or over. Garner got its start with the coming of the railroad through the beginning in 1847. Garners Station was established with the construction of a post office in 1878, Garner is situated in St. Marys Township, which got its name from a Church of England parish. It is known there were settlers in the area before the Revolutionary War. There are documented records of a church south of Garner in the Panther Branch Township as far back as 1756, according to the late Parker Rand, a 3, 000-acre tract of land was granted to his forefathers by King George in 1759
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Holly Springs, North Carolina
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Holly Springs is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,661. Holly Springs is located at 35°39′16″N 78°49′29″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 15.1 square miles, of which 15.0 square miles is land and 0.12 square miles. Neighboring towns include Apex to the north and Fuquay-Varina to the south, as of the census of 2010, there were 24,661 people,8,147 households, and 6,706 families residing in the town. In the 2000 census, there were only 9,192 people,3,316 households, the population density was 1,633.18 people per square mile. There were 8,658 housing units in 2010, an increase from only 3,642 housing units in 2000. The racial makeup of the town was 79. 80% White,12. 6% African American,0. 40% Native American,2. 9% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,1. 8% from other races, and 2. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 30% of the population,14. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 2. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.03 and the family size was 3.38. In the town, the population was out with 32. 4% under the age of 18,5. 0% from 18 to 24,45. 0% from 25 to 44,15. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 33.1 years, for every 100 females there were 97.3 males. The population was also 51. 4% female and 48. 6% male, the median income for a household in the town was $85,000, and the median income for a family was $92,539. Males had an income of $66,630 versus $43,326 for females. The per capita income for the town was $31,527, about 2. 6% of families and 3. 7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 7% of those under age 18 and 12. 9% of those age 65 or over. The Tuscarora Indians used the area around Holly Springs as a hunting ground prior to colonial settlement and this tribe fled North Carolina around 1720 to escape the influx of Europeans and eventually became the sixth nation of the Iroquois. The town of Holly Springs grew around fresh water springs, believed to be the original springs, near the intersection of what is now Avent Ferry Road. These roads linked Raleigh to the Cape Fear River and ultimately to Fayetteville as well as linking Hillsborough to Smithfield, by 1800, the crossroads had spawned a village, including a general store built by Richard Jones, a Baptist church, and a Masonic lodge
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