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Chapel Hill

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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A town of Orange county, North Carolina, U.S.A., about 28 m. N.W. of Raleigh. Pop. (1890) 1017; (190o) 1099. It is served by a branch of the Southern railway, connecting at University, 10 m. distant, with the Greensboro & Goldsboro division. The town is best known as the seat of the University of North Carolina (see NORTH CAROLINA), whose campus contains 48 acres. There are cotton and knitting mills and lumber interests of some importance. Chapel Hill was settled late in the 18th century, and was first incorporated in 1851.


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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chapel Hill'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/chapel-hill.html. 1910.
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