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CHAPEL HILL

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 851 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAPEL See also:HILL , a See also:town of See also:Orange See also:county, See also:North Carolina, U.S.A., about 28 M. N.W. of See also:Raleigh. Pop. (1900) 1099; (1910) 1149. It is served by a See also:branch of the See also:Southern railway, connecting at University, to m. distant, with the See also:Greensboro & See also:Goldsboro See also: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 See also:cotton and See also:knitting See also:mills and See also:lumber interests of some importance. Chapel Hill was settled See also:late in the 18th See also:century, and was first incorporated in 1851.

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