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North Carolina State Library

Raleigh

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 RALEIGH, N. C.
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STATE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
 Points of Interest in Raleigh
The Capitol, with its statues and monuments.
Governor's Mansion.
State Museum.
State Administration Building, containing Supreme Court and Its
Library, State Library, and Hall of History.
Confederate Soldiers' Home.
Central Hospital for Insane and Epileptics.
The State Prison.
State School for White Blind.
State School for Negro Deaf Mutes and Blind.
Masonic Temple.
The Federal Building.
Christ Church Rectory, formerly Bank of the State of North Carolina.
Raney Library.
State Agricultural and Mechanical College.
State Experiment Farm.
State Poultry Farm.
St. Mary's School.
Peace Institute.
Meredith College.
Pullen Park, the Zoo, and the house in which President Andrew Johnson
was born. Bloomsbury Park.
The house in which William Gaston wrote the State song, "The Old
North State."
The Municipal Building. The Auditorium.
Rex Hospital, St. Agnes Hospital, Leonard Hospital.
Methodist and Roman Catholic Orphanages.
National, Old or City, Oak wood and Confederate Cemeteries.
The Country Club.
The Woman's Club.
The Capital Club.
The Elks Club.
The Y. M. C. A.
The view of Raleigh and vicinity from the roofs of the Citizens and the
Commercial National Banks.
 RALEIGH
THE CITY AT THE CROSSWAYS

NORTH CAROLINA'S PHYSICAL CENTER. POPULATION CENTER,, EDU-

CATIONAL CENTER, POLITICAL CENTER. PUBLICATION
CENTER. CITY OF OPPORTUNITIES

0 CITY has more method in its location than RALEIGH. The

why of it makes a story in itself. North Carolina had a wan-
dering capital from 1715, when the first legislature met, to 1792,
when provision was made for a definite and permanent location. The
legislature looked the state over, balanced it and then decided that the
seat of government should be at RALEIGH. It did more; it appointed
a commission to determine the precise location, to purchase it and
to lay off the future seat of government. This was done in April, 1792,
and that year work began on the capitol building, which was com-
pleted and occupied in December, 1794.
The legislature thus established the permanent capital at the bal-
ance-point of North Carolina, in almost precisely the physical center of
the state and at the intersection of the great highways north and south
and east and west, so it is literally the City at the Crossways. Here then
is the answer to the Why of RALEIGH.
The name given the capital city fell naturally and gracefully upon
it; given in honor of the great knight, Sir Walter Raleigh, who sent the
first English settlers to America, these establishing on Roanoke Island
the first capital, which bore the name of the immortal Englishman,
explorer, promoter of great things and lover of literature. So it is emi-
nently fitting that his name should be given the capital of the common-
wealth in whose territory the first Englishmen planted themselves, as it
is also appropriate that this city is to place in one of its most public
parks a statue of the great Englishman.
RALEIGH by virtue of its admirable selection for a city has the
advantage of two climates and two sections, being at the point where
the coastal plain and the piedmont region blend their soils and vegeta-
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 tion. Time has brought to it another supreme advantage, this being
that it is in the center of the largest population area between Washing-
ton and Atlanta.
So our RALEIGH at the Crossways has numberless advantages.
It is the Halfway-House, for it is midway between Boston and New
Orleans and between New York and Jacksonville, Fla., and on the great
highway between Quebec, Canada, and Miami in sub-tropical lower
Florida, is equi-distant between the icebergs and the palms. Then,
taking it east and west, it is on'the Central Highway from Beaufort to
the Tennessee line, which is to be one of the links in the great Trans-
continental Highway which will unite North Carolina and California
in its 3,000 miles of route.
The present state capitol is chief among the state institutions, which
are more numerous than at any other capital in the South. It was com-
pleted in 1840, built of granite from a quarry owned by the state on
RALEIGH'S eastern boundary, and for a number of years after its com-
pletion ranked as the most stately and beautiful in all the United States,
remaining today the admiration of all architects; pure Greek in design
and built for all time.
Among the other state structures are the state administration build-
ing, containing the supreme court, the libraries and the finest historical
collection in the South; the agricultural building, containing among other
things the largest and most complete museum of natural resources owned
by any state in the Union; the offices of the insurance department, cor-
poration commission, departments of labor and printing and public edu-
cation; the governor's mansion; the hospital for insane and epileptics;
state prison; Confederate soldiers' home; the agricultural and mechanical
college; the school for the white blind and that for negro deaf-mutes and
blind, each of the last named being the largest in the world of its class,
and the state fair grounds.
RALEIGH has the unique distinction of being the only capital in
the Union where stre;ts an J sidewilks are state and not city property,
for the state bought all and the city is a tenant by courtesy.
\ Here was established the first school for negro deaf-mutes and blind
in the world. Here was born President Andrew Johnson, who, succeed-
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ing President Lincoln at the latter's assassination, was later presented
with a cane made of wood from the old frigate Constitution, inscribed
"The Restorer of the Union."
It is but natural that RALEIGH, so wisely and worthily located in
the very heart of North Carolina, should become the educational center
of the commonwealth. It has a larger school population in proportion
to its total than any other place in the country and has no fewer than
twenty-nine educational institutions of all degrees.
It has physical advantages too, being set in a region of diverse soils
and even climates, with cotton, tobacco and corn, the great staple crops,
grown in such profusion that the world's record for all three has been
made in the county of Wake, of which RALEIGH is the county seat.
It is an electric power center and has the unique distinction of being
the only place to receive hydro-electric power from three different
streams. It is the power center for all eastern North Carolina, serving
it on transmission wires to more than twenty points.
It is not surprising in view of all these advantages that within the
past ten years the city has grown more than in all the previous 112 years
of its existence; that it has grown rapidly and yet sanely and wisely
and has accomplished so many things that it has been termed by not
a few visitors the biggest place of its population on the map.
RALEIGH and the section round about, typical of North Carolina,
is a true American community, with a splendid blending of the old and
the new, where the traditions of the past are happily preserved and
united with the best in modern life.
RALEIGH then is a City of Opportunity, which appeals to all
because of its very distinctions. It is on a broad plan, its designers
having laid off wide streets and parks and named its four main avenues
after as many former capitals of the state, Halifax, Newbern, Fayette-
ville, and Hillsboro, these thoroughfares pointing in their respective
directions.
The county of Wake, which dates back to the Colonial days, has
under construction the finest court house in North Carolina, the jail
forming its upper story, and has also a notably well designed and con-
structed hospital for its poor.
 The city of RALEIGH has a municipal building unrivaled in the
state and an auditorium which has no superior south of Washington;
three hospitals; a complete public school system; water supply with a
storage basin covering 100 acres; market; abattoir and incinerating
plant for refuse, and is building many miles of streets, using the best type
of pavement.
The business development of the city has suffered no reverses. It
began when the War between the States ended and when RALEIGH
won another distinction by being the only city in all the Southern Con-
federacy to be surrendered in the fashion of 500 years ago; commissioners
making the surrender of the state and of the city to General Sherman,
the commander of the great Federal army.
The banks have been a tremendous factor not only in the develop-
ment of RALEIGH but in that of the productive section of which it is
the center. Its eight banks are the Citizens, Commercial and Mer-
chants, all national; Raleigh Banking and Trust, Raleigh Savings,
Mechanics Savings, Wake County Savings and Anchor Trust. Three
of these, the Citizens, Commercial and Raleigh Banking and Trust,
have erected buildings of the first importance, giving RALEIGH the
added advantage of becoming an office center. The banks have
resources totaling $8,000,000. There has never been a panic nor have
they ever issued scrip, but like the city itself they have met every hap-
pening with firmness.
Happily there yet stands intact the oldest bank building in the
state, this being that of the Bank of the State of North Carolina,
erected in 1795 and now the rectory of Christ Episcopal church. Its
artistic beauty, the admiration of city and state alike, tells the story of
that day as to architecture, and in other respects the building tells of
the banking methods of that period, when a bank was also a home, in
sharp contrast with the modern ways.
RALEIGH'S importance as an educational center marks it, and
both sexes have opportunities for any kinds of education. St. Mary's
has the honor of being the largest Episcopal school for women in this
country. Peace Institute is an important female institution of the
Presbyterian church, Meredith college occupying the same relation to
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the Baptist. The State Agricultural and Mechanical college ranks high
in the country for the character of its work. The colored race has great
opportunities, for Shaw University is the largest negro Baptist institu-
tion in the country, and St. Augustine's has the same prominence among
Episcopal colored institutions.
The city's public school system provides for both races amply,
there being a high school and eleven grammar schools. There are also
parish and parochial schools, while King's Business College has students
from a large part of the state and so has the School of Pharmacy. The
Methodists and the Roman Catholics have orphanages in the suburbs.
From an industrial viewpoint RALEIGH shows well, for during the
past decade it increased its factory capital from $728,000 to $2,500,000
and the value of the products of factories from $947,000 to $3,000,000,
so that it ranks fifth in the United States in the percentage of such
increase in cities having under 25,000 inhabitants. The 67 manufac-
turing plants turn out cotton goods, yarns, hosiery, underwear, boilers,
structural iron work, agricultural implements, vehicles, cotton oil and
fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, house building material, furniture, school
supplies, books and printing generally, building stones and monuments,
street paving material, washboards and other wooden ware and candy.
It is the most important publication point in North Carolina.
In the amount of new construction, embracing state, county, muni-
cipal, railway, educational, business and residential, RALEIGH ranks
second to no place of its population in the South, and it has kept up this
record during the past three years, the amount of new construction now
in progress totaling over $1,300,000. The country round about vies in
development and prosperity with the city and there is generous rivalry.
Within 75 miles of RALEIGH there is a population of over 850,000
and 66 cities and progressive towns are within this zone.
The railway facilities are admirable and the expenditure of large
sums by all three of the roads, the Southern, Seaboard Air Line and Nor-
folk Southern, in the past two years shows their confidence in RALEIGH
as a business point in the most practical way. Fifty passenger trains
arrive and depart daily and all parts of the state are intimately con-
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nected by rail, while the great North and South connections give the
quickest connection with all important points in both directions.
The city, managed by the commission form of government, is
expending $350,000 for a thorough water supply; $150,000 on permanent
street improvements of the first class; $50,000 on a municipal market of
the best type, and has won the compliments and congratulations of the
people of the state for the progress shown in every line of development,
which have made it fully worthy of the high honor of being the Seat of
Government of North Carolina.

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