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Raleigh,
the Capital City
In the 16th century, a young Englishman named Sir Walter Raleigh established the
first English colony on the shore of the New World. Some 200 years later, the
colony of North Carolina became a state and needed a capital city. Home to
several prominent North Carolina families, Wake County was conveniently located
to the coastal cities as well as accessible to the west, where leaders of the
state felt growth to be most certain. In 1792 the General Assembly purchased a
beautiful wooded area in Wake County and established the city of Raleigh.
Raleigh has the distinction among the fifty state capitals as having been
totally planned. Prior to its being built, the city was laid out in a square
with one-acre parks at each corner. The State House was placed in the center of
the square.
The first new inhabitants were government officials and their families. These
first residents took great pride in their new capital, which was reflected in
their homes and gardens as well as in their government buildings.
As the city has grown, the downtown area, with its surrounding residential
neighborhoods, parks and greenways, has been maintained as originally planned.
In 1975 Raleigh was named the first Green Survival City in the United States.
Today Raleigh is a city with a population of more than 245,000. Its growth
parallels that of the Research Triangle Park, a research park which is the home
to corporations and high-tech industries from around the world. This kind of
presence has provided us with diverse cultural and regional influences. As a
result, Raleigh has become a city offering the best of worlds — restaurants,
cosmopolitan shops, educational, cultural and recreational activities as well as
the slower-paced traditional small-town southern hospitality and charm.
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