Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina City of Raleigh Flag of Raleigh, North Carolina Flag Official seal of Raleigh, North Carolina Location in Wake County and the state of North Carolina.
Location in Wake County and the state of North Carolina.
State North Carolina Raleigh (/ r li/; rah-lee) is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.
Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The town/city covers a territory area of 142.8 square miles (370 km2).
Enumeration Bureau estimated the city's populace as 451,066 as of July 1, 2015. It is one of the fastest-growing metros/cities in the country. The town/city of Raleigh is titled after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County.
Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University and is part of the Research Triangle area, together with Durham (home of Duke University) and Chapel Hill (home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
The "Triangle" nickname originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, positioned in Durham and Wake counties, among the three metros/cities and their universities.
Enumeration Bureau's Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Travel Destination (CSA), which had an estimated populace of 2,037,430 in 2013. The Raleigh Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA) had an estimated populace of 1,214,516 in 2013.
Most of Raleigh is positioned inside Wake County, with a very small portion extending into Durham County. The suburbs of Cary, Morrisville, Garner, Clayton, Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon, and Rolesville are some of Raleigh's major nearby suburbs and satellite towns.
Raleigh is an early example in the United States (US) of a prepared city.
The town/city was originally laid out in a grid pattern with the North Carolina State Capitol in Union Square at the center.
The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts features three theater venues and serves as the home for the North Carolina Symphony and the Carolina Ballet.
2.1.5 North Raleigh See also: Timeline of Raleigh, North Carolina In December 1770, Joel Lane successfully petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly to problematic a new county.
New Bern, a port town on the Neuse River 35 miles (56 km) from the Atlantic Ocean, was the biggest city and the capital of North Carolina amid the American Revolution.
Raleigh was chosen as the site of the new capital in 1788, as its central locale protected it from attacks from the coast.
It was officially established in 1792 as both governmental center of county and state capital (incorporated on December 31, 1792 charter granted January 21, 1795). The town/city was titled for Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of Roanoke, the "lost colony" on Roanoke Island. Raleigh is one of the several metros/cities in the United States that was prepared and assembled specifically to serve as a state capital.
The North Carolina General Assembly first met in Raleigh in December 1794, and granted the town/city a charter, with a board of seven appointed commissioners and an "Intendant of Police" (which advanced as the office of Mayor) to govern it.
Raleigh, North Carolina in 1872 In 1817, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina was established and headquartered in Raleigh.
Raleigh jubilated the culminations of the new Capitol and new Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company in 1840.
In 1853, the first State Fair was held near Raleigh.
During General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign, Raleigh was captured by Union cavalry under the command of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick on April 13, 1865.
North Carolina State Capitol, c.1861.
North Carolina State Treasurers Office in State Capitol, c.1890s The North Carolina State Capitol can be seen in the background.
With the help of the Freedmen's Bureau, many freedmen migrated from non-urban areas to Raleigh.
The biracial Reconstruction council created new welfare establishments: in 1869, it allowed the nation's first school for blind and deaf blacks, to be positioned in Raleigh.
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now known as North Carolina State University, was established as a land-grant college in 1887.
The rising black middle-class in Raleigh and other areas was politically silenced and shut out of small-town governance, and the Republican Party was no longer competing in the state.
The North Carolina Symphony, established the same year, performed in its new home.
In 1939, the State General Assembly chartered the Raleigh-Durham Aeronautical Authority to build a larger airport between Raleigh and Durham, with the first flight occurring in 1943.
The Dorton Arena, a 7,610-seat multi-purpose arena designed by Matthew Nowicki, was opened in 1952 on the grounds of the North Carolina State Fair.
With the opening of the Research Triangle Park in 1959, Raleigh began to experience a populace increase, resulting in a total town/city population of 100,000 by 1960. In 1960, the Enumeration Bureau reported Raleigh's populace as 76.4% white and 23.4% black. In 1967, Clarence Lightner was propel to the City Council, and in 1973 became Raleigh's first black mayor.
In 1976, the Raleigh City and Wake County schools consolidated to turn into the Wake County Public School System, now the biggest school fitness in the state and 19th biggest in the country. The 1988 Raleigh tornado outbreak of November 28, 1988, was the most destructive of the seven tornadoes reported in Northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia between 1:00 AM and 5:45 AM.
The Raleigh tornado produced over $77 million in F4 damage, along with four fatalities (two in the town/city of Raleigh, and two in Nash County) and 154 injuries.
In 1991, two large high-rise buildings in Raleigh were completed, First Union Capitol Center and Two Hannover Square, along with the prominent Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek in Southeast Raleigh.
In 1997, the National Hockey League's Hartford Whalers announced their intention to move to Raleigh as the Carolina Hurricanes, becoming the city's first primary league experienced sports franchise.
In 1999, the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena (later retitled the RBC Center and now called PNC Arena), opened to furnish a home for the Hurricanes and the NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team, as well as an up-to-date primary concert venue. In 2006, the city's NHL franchise, the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup, North Carolina's first and only experienced sports championship.
With the opening of parts of I-540 from 2005 to 2007, a new 70-mile (110 km) loop around Wake County, traffic congestion eased somewhat in the North Raleigh area.
In January 2011, Raleigh hosted the National Hockey League All-Star Game.
In April 2011, a devastating EF-3 tornado hit Raleigh, and many other tornadoes touched down in the state (ultimately the largest, but not the strongest (1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak) outbreak to ever hit the state), killing 24 citizens .
The tornado tracked northeast through parts of Downtown, East Central Raleigh and Northeast Raleigh and produced $115 million in damages in Wake County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Raleigh is situated in a total region of 144.0 square miles (373.0 km2), of which 142.9 square miles (370.1 km2) is territory and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), or 0.76%, is veiled by water.
Raleigh is positioned in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet.
As a result, most of Raleigh features gently rolling hills that slope eastward toward the state's flat coastal plain.
Its central Piedmont locale situates Raleigh about two hours west of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, by car and four hours east of the Great Smoky Mountains.
The town/city is 155 miles (249 km) south of Richmond, Virginia, 263 miles (423 km) south of Washington, D.C., and 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Main article: Raleigh, North Carolina neighborhoods Downtown Raleigh horizon seen from Dix Hill at the Dorothea Dix Hospital Fayetteville Street in Downtown Raleigh Raleigh is divided into a several major geographic areas, each of which use a Raleigh address and a ZIP code that begins with the digits 276.
PNC Plaza, formerly known as RBC Plaza, is the biggest and tallest high-rise building in the town/city of Raleigh.
The downtown region is home to historic neighborhoods and buildings such as the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel assembled in the early 20th century, the restored City Market, the Fayetteville Street downtown company district, which includes the PNC Plaza and Wells Fargo Capitol Center buildings, as well as the North Carolina Museum of History, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina State Capitol, Peace College, the City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh Convention Center, Shaw University, Campbell University School of Law, and St.
The neighborhoods in Old Raleigh include Cameron Park, Boylan Heights, Country Club Hills, Coley Forest, Five Points, Budleigh, Glenwood-Brooklyn, Hayes Barton Historic District, Moore Square, Mordecai, Rosengarten Park, Belvidere Park, Woodcrest, and Historic Oakwood.
In the 2000s, an accomplishment by the Downtown Raleigh Alliance was made to separate this region of the town/city into five lesser districts: Fayetteville Street, Moore Square, Glenwood South, Warehouse (Raleigh), and Capital District (Raleigh).
Midtown Raleigh is a residentiary and commercial region just North of the I-440 Beltline and is part of North Raleigh.
It also includes North Hills Park and part of the Raleigh Greenway System.
The News & Observer journal started using the term for marketing purposes only. The Midtown Raleigh Alliance was established on July 25, 2011 as a way for improve leaders to promote the area. North Hills, an upscale neighborhood of Raleigh East Raleigh is situated roughly from Capital Boulevard near the I-440 beltline to New Hope Road.
Neighborhoods in East Raleigh include Hedingham, Longview, Lockwood, Madonna Acres, New Hope, Thompson-Hunter and Wilder's Grove.
It is home to North Carolina State University, Meredith College, Pullen Park, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Cameron Village, Lake Johnson, the North Carolina Museum of Art and historic Saint Mary's School.
Primary thoroughfares serving West Raleigh, in addition to Hillsborough Street, are Avent Ferry Road, Blue Ridge Road, and Western Boulevard.
The PNC Arena is also positioned here adjoining to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse , and fast-growing suburban region of the town/city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly assembled subdivisions and along its northern fringes.
Primary neighborhoods and subdivisions in North Raleigh include Bartons Creek Bluffs, Bedford, Bent Tree, Black Horse Run, Brier Creek, Brookhaven, Coachman's Trail, Crossgate, Crosswinds, Dominion Park, Ethans Glen, Falls River, Harrington Grove, Hidden Valley, Lake Park, Long Lake, North Haven, North Ridge, Oakcroft, Shannon Woods, Six Forks Station, Springdale Estates, Stonebridge, Stone Creek, Stonehenge, Summerfield, Valley Estates, Wakefield, Weathersfield, Windsor Forest, and Wood Valley.
Route 70, Interstate 540, Wake Forest Road, Millbrook Road, Lynn Road, Six Forks Road, Spring Forest Road, Creedmoor Road, Leesville Road, Norwood Road, Strickland Road, and North Hills Drive.
South Raleigh is positioned along U.S.
This region is the least advanced and least dense region of Raleigh (much of the region lies inside the Swift Creek watershed district, where evolution regulations limit housing densities and construction).
Neighborhoods in South Raleigh include Eagle Creek, Renaissance Park, Lake Wheeler, Swift Creek, Carolina Pines, Rhamkatte, Riverbrooke, and Enchanted Oaks.
Southeast Raleigh is bounded by downtown on the west, Garner on the southwest, and non-urban Wake County to the southeast.
Primary neighborhoods include Chastain, Chavis Heights, Raleigh Country Club, Southgate, Kingwood Forest, Rochester Heights, Emerald Village and Biltmore Hills.
Like much of the southeastern United States, Raleigh has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), with four distinct seasons.
On January 24 25, 2000, Raleigh received its greatest snow flurry from a single storm 20.3 inches (52 cm) the Winter Storm of January 2000.
In 1996, Hurricane Fran caused harsh damage in the Raleigh area, mostly from falling trees.
Tornadoes also have on occasion affected the town/city of Raleigh most prominently the November 28, 1988 tornado which occurred in the early morning hours and rated an F4 on the Fujita Tornado Scale and affected Northwestern portions of the city.
Also the April 16, 2011 F3 Tornado which affected portions of downtown and North east Raleigh and the suburb of Holly Springs.
Even with the concerns of occasional drought that comes with the region, Raleigh and the state of North Carolina receive large amounts of rainfall throughout the year.
Climate data for Raleigh Durham International Airport, North Carolina (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1887 present) As of the 2000 United States census, there were 276,093 persons (July 2008 estimate was 380,173) and 61,371 families residing in Raleigh.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, the North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, and the New Hope Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) are all headquartered in Raleigh.
Raleigh is part of North Carolina's Research Triangle, one of the country's biggest and most prosperous research parks, and a primary center in the United States for high-tech and biotech research, as well as advanced textile development. The town/city is a primary retail shipping point for easterly North Carolina and a wholesale distributing point for the grocery industry. Raleigh is number one on the 2015 Forbes List for being the best place for businesses and careers. Companies based in Raleigh include BB&T Insurance Services, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Carquest, First Citizens Banc - Shares, Golden Corral, Martin Marietta Materials, Red Hat, Waste Industries, and Lulu.
According to Raleigh's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 State of North Carolina 24,739 4 North Carolina State University 7,730 8 City of Raleigh 3,811 Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh City of Raleigh Museum Nearby Cary is home to the Koka Booth Amphitheatre which hosts additional summer concerts and outside movies, and serves as the venue for regularly scheduled outside concerts by the North Carolina Symphony based in Raleigh.
During the North Carolina State Fair, Dorton Arena hosts headline acts.
The private Lincoln Theatre is one of a several clubs in downtown Raleigh that schedules many concerts throughout the year in multiple formats (rock, pop, country).
In 2008, a new theatre space, the Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, was opened in the restored auditorium of the historic Murphey School. Theater performances are also offered at the Raleigh Little Theatre, Long View Center, Ira David Wood III Pullen Park Theatre, and Stewart and Thompson Theaters at North Carolina State University.
Raleigh is home to a several experienced arts organizations, including the North Carolina Symphony, the Opera Company of North Carolina, Theatre In The Park, Burning Coal Theatre Company, the North Carolina Theatre, Broadway Series South and the Carolina Ballet.
North Carolina Museum of Art, occupying a large suburban ground on Blue Ridge Road near the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, maintains one of the premier enhance art collections positioned between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.
In addition to its extensive collections of American Art, European Art and ancient art, the exhibition recently has hosted primary exhibitions featuring Auguste Rodin (in 2000) and Claude Monet (in 2006-07), each attracting more than 200,000 visitors. Unlike most prominent enhance exhibitions, the North Carolina Museum of Art acquired a large number of the works in its permanent compilation through purchases with enhance funds.
Raleigh's downtown is also home to many small-town art arcades such as Art Space in City Market, Visual Art Exchange, and 311 Gallery, on Martin Street, and Bee Hive Studios on Hargett Street.
CAM Raleigh is a downtown intact art exhibition, also on Martin Street, that serves to promote new artists and does not home a permanent collection.
Carolina Rail - Hawks North American Soccer League Wake - Med Soccer Park (10,000) 4,700 2006 0 Raleigh Flyers American Ultimate Disc League Wake Med Soccer Park / Cardinal Gibbons High School ? The National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes charter moved to Raleigh in 1997 from Hartford, Connecticut (where it was known as the Hartford Whalers).
In addition to the Hurricanes, the North Carolina FC of the North American Soccer League play in suburban Cary to the west; North Carolina Courage women's experienced soccer team play in suburban Cary to the west; the Carolina Mudcats, a Single-A minor-league baseball team, play in the city's easterly suburbs; the newly formed Single-A minor-league baseball Buies Creek Astros play in the close-by out-of-county southern suburb of Buies Creek, North Carolina until their ballpark finishes in Fayetteville, North Carolina in a several years, Raleigh Flyers of the American Ultimate Disc League play primarily at Cardinal Gibbons High School near the PNC Arena; and the Durham Bulls, the AAA minor-league baseball team made internationally famous by the movie Bull Durham, play in the neighboring town/city of Durham.
Several other experienced sports leagues have had former franchises (now defunct) in Raleigh, including the Raleigh Ice - Caps of the ECHL (1991 1998); Carolina Cobras of the Arena Football League (2000 2004); the Raleigh Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football (1991); the Raleigh Bullfrogs of the Global Basketball Association (1991 1992); the Raleigh Cougars of the United States Basketball League (1997 1999); and most recently, the Carolina Courage of the Women's United Soccer Association (2000 2001 in Chapel Hill, 2001 2003 in suburban Cary), which won that league's championship Founders Cup in 2002.
The Raleigh region has hosted the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Nationwide Tour Rex Hospital Open since 1994, with the current locale of play at Raleigh's Wakefield Plantation.
North Carolina State University is positioned in southwest Raleigh where the Wolfpack competes nationally in 24 intercollegiate varsity sports as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The university's football team plays in Carter-Finley Stadium, the third biggest football stadium in North Carolina, while the men's basketball team shares the PNC Arena with the Carolina Hurricanes hockey club.
The North Carolina Tigers compete as an Australian Rules football club in the United States Australian Football League, in the Eastern Australian Football League.
In 2009 and again in 2010, Cheer Extreme Raleigh's Small Senior Level 5 Team were silver medalists at the Cheerleading Worlds Competition in Orlando, Florida, and in 2012 they received the bronze medal. Raleigh is also home to one of the Southeast's premier Hardcourt Bike Polo clubs. Because of the area's many billiards rooms, Raleigh is home to one of the biggest amateur league franchises for playing pool, the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill American Poolplayers Association.
The Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department offers a wide range of leisure opportunities at more than 150 sites throughout the city, which include: 8,100 acres (33 km2) of park land, 78 miles (126 km) of greenway, 22 improve centers, a BMX championship-caliber race track, 112 tennis courts among 25 locations, 5 enhance lakes, and 8 enhance aquatic facilities.
Raulston Arboretum, an 8-acre (32,000 m ) arboretum and botanical garden in west Raleigh administered by North Carolina State University, maintains a year-round compilation that is open daily to the enhance without charge.
North Carolina State Capitol Historically, Raleigh voters have tended to elect conservative Democrats in local, state, and nationwide elections, a holdover from their one-party fitness of the late 19th century. Main article: Raleigh City Council Raleigh City Council consists of eight members; all seats, including the Mayor's, are open for election every two years.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, in 2010 the Raleigh Police Department and other agencies in the town/city reported 1,740 incidents of violent crime and 12,995 incidents of property crime far below both the nationwide average and the North Carolina average.
The Raleigh Fire Department provides fire protection throughout the city. The North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, the state's major correctional facility housing female inmates is based in Raleigh. Memorial Bell Tower at North Carolina State University Raleigh Charter High School chief entrance As of 2011, Time ranked Raleigh as the third most educated town/city in the US based on the percentage of inhabitants who held college degrees. This statistic can most likely be credited to the existence of universities in and around Raleigh, as well as the existence of Research Triangle Park to the Northwest.
North Carolina State University Public schools in Raleigh are directed by the Wake County Public School System.
Observers have praised the Wake County Public School System for its innovative accomplishments to maintain a socially, economically and ethnic balanced fitness by using income as a prime factor in assigning students to schools. Raleigh is home to three magnet high schools and three high schools offering the International Baccalaureate program.
There are four early college high schools in Raleigh.
Raleigh also has two alternative high schools.
Wake County Public high schools in Raleigh include: Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School The State of North Carolina provides for a legislated number of charter schools.
Raleigh is presently home to 11 such charter schools: Raleigh Charter High School (9-12) Friendship Christian School of Raleigh (Baptist, 1-12) Montessori School of Raleigh (K-9) North Raleigh Christian Academy (Protestant Christian, K-12) The Raleigh School (K-5) Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the region's major airport and the second-largest in North Carolina, positioned northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate-40 between Raleigh and Durham, serves the town/city and greater Research Triangle urbane region, as well as much of easterly North Carolina.
Several licensed private general-aviation airports operate in Raleigh's immediate suburban areas: North Raleigh Airport (FAA LID: 00 - NC), Louisburg I-40 traverses the southern part of the city, connecting Raleigh to Durham and Chapel Hill toward the west, and coastal Wilmington, North Carolina to the southeast.
I-440, Also known locally as the Raleigh Beltline, it makes a loop around the central part of the city.
The I-440 route labeling formerly encompassed the entire loop around the city, co-numbered though South Raleigh with I-40.
The route designation shifts were made to avoid driver confusion over the Inner/Outer designations, especially with Raleigh's new "Outer Beltline", as I-540 has turn into known.
Interstate 42 will begin at I-40 south of Raleigh and will follow US 70 to Moorehead City.
Route 1 enters the town/city from the north along Capital Boulevard, joins I-440 around the west side of Raleigh, and leaves the town/city to the southwest as the US 1/US 64 expressway in Cary.
Route 64 is the chief east-west route through Raleigh; all segments share routes with another highway.
Route 70 runs roughly northwest-southeast through Raleigh.
South of Raleigh, the route (along with US 401 and NC 50) follows South Saunders and South Wilmington Streets into Garner.
Route 401 north of downtown Raleigh it follows Capital Boulevard and Louisburg Road.
Route 54 follows Chapel Hill Road and Hillsborough Street in West Raleigh.
Route 50 is a north-south route through Raleigh.
North of Raleigh it follows Creedmoor Road.
The three routes remain together through south Raleigh.
Route 98, known as Durham Road in North Raleigh, traverses the extreme northern parts of the city.
CAT bus on Hillsborough Street in Downtown Raleigh Raleigh's train station is one of Amtrak's busiest stops in the Southern U.S. The station is served by four passenger trains daily: the Silver Star, twice-daily Piedmont service, and the Carolinian. Daily service is offered between Raleigh and: Public transit in and around Raleigh is provided by Capital Area Transit (CAT), which operates 33 fixed bus routes, including the R-Line and the Wake-Forest Loop.
Raleigh is also served by Triangle Transit (known formerly as the Triangle Transit Authority, or TTA).
Triangle Transit offers scheduled, fixed-route county-wide and commuter bus service between Raleigh and the region's other principal metros/cities of Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, as well as to and from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Research Triangle Park and a several of the region's larger suburban communities.
North Carolina State University also maintains its own transit system, the Wolfline, that provides zero-fare bus service to the general enhance along multiple routes serving the university's campuses in southwest Raleigh.
From 1995 the cornerstone of Triangle Transit's long-term plan was a 28-mile rail corridor from northeast Raleigh, through downtown Raleigh, Cary, and Research Triangle Park, to Durham using DMU technology.
Bicycle Route#1 routes through suburban Raleigh, along with N.C.
As of September 2010, maps and signage for both US Bike Route #1 and NC Bike Route #2 are out-of-date for the Raleigh area.
Bicyclists and pedestrians also may use Raleigh's extensive greenway system, with paths and trails positioned throughout the city.
In May 2011, Raleigh was designated a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists at the Bronze level. See also: List of newspapers in North Carolina, List of airways broadcasts in North Carolina, and List of tv stations in North Carolina Technician, student printed announcement of North Carolina State University The Slammer, a paid bi-weekly journal featuring Raleigh crime news Independent Weekly, a no-charge weekly tabloid covering Raleigh, Durham, and the encircling area Raleigh is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville Designated Market Area, the 24th biggest broadcast tv market in the United States.
The following stations are licensed to Raleigh and/or have momentous operations and viewers in the city: WRAL-TV (5, NBC): licensed to the town/city of Raleigh, owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company WTVD (11, ABC): licensed to the town/city of Durham; news agency positioned in Raleigh.
WNCN-TV (17, CBS): studios positioned in Raleigh, licensed to the town/city of Goldsboro southeast of Raleigh; owned by Media General WLFL-TV (22, CW): licensed to the town/city of Raleigh, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group WRAZ-TV (50, Fox): licensed to the town/city of Raleigh, owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company WKNC-FM 88.1 FM (College rock), directed by students of North Carolina State University WUNC-FM 91.5 FM (National Public Radio, North Carolina Public Radio) directed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Further information: List of citizens from Raleigh, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places listings in Wake County, North Carolina Official records for Raleigh kept January 1887 to 17 May 1944 at downtown and at Raleigh Durham Int'l since 18 May 1944.
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