Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
1895 - Raleigh

Raleigh, a city of North Carolina, the capital of the state and the seat of justice of Wake co., is 133 miles N.N.W. of Wilmington, N.C., and 286 miles S.S.W. of Washington, D.C. Lat. 35° 47' N.; lon. near 78° 40'W. The city is situated on elevated ground and in the centre has an open area, called Union Square, from which four principal streets, 99 feet wide, extend in different directions. Here is located the capitol building, a handsome granite edifice with massive columns and surmounted by a dome. It is 166 feet long, 90 feet wide, and cost $740,000. Raleigh also contains a penitentiary, a United States court-house, a state lunatic asylum, an institution for the blind, an agricultural and mechanical college, a state experimental farm, agricultural department buildings, supreme court and state library buildings, Peace Institute and St. Mary's school for white girls, Shaw University (colored) for both sexes, St. Augustine's normal school (colored) for both sexes, 3 cotton-mills, an extensive phosphate-mill, a cotton-seed oil mill, and iron-foundries, planing-mills, car-building plants, and rail way-shops. It has 24 churches (10 white, 14 colored), 2 national banks, a state bank, a savings-bank, and printing offices which issue 3 daily and 7 weekly newspapers. Three railways converge here. Pop. in 1880, 9265; in 1890, 12,678; present pop. about 15,500.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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