Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
1906

Raleigh, a city, the capital of North Carolina, and tho seat of justice of Wake co., 143 miles NNW. of Wilmington, on the Seaboard Air Line, the Raleigh and Cape Fear and the Southern Rs. Lat. 35° 47' N. ; Ion. near 78° 40' W. The city is situated on elevated ground and in the centre has an open area, Union Square, on which is located the capitol building, a handsome granite edifice surmounted by a dome. Raleigh contains a penitentiary, a United States court-house, state lunatic asylum, institutions for the blind and deaf and dumb, an agricultural and mechanical college, state experiment farm, supreme court and state library buildings, the Peace Institute, St. Mary's School, Shaw University, St. Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute, Baptist Female Institute, and the state geological museum. The industrial establishments comprise cotton-, cotton-seed oil and hosiery-mills, fertiliser- and car-works, iron-foundries, and railway-shops. The city is an important centre of tho cotton and tobacco trades. Near by are Confederate and Federal cemeteries. Pop. in 1880, 9265 ; in 1890, 12,678 ; in 1900, 13,643.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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