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