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Augustine’s College for the education of freedmen. The biracial Reconstruction legislature created new welfare institutions: in , it approved the nation’s first school for blind and deaf blacks, to be located in Raleigh. In , the federal government constructed the Federal Building in Raleigh, the first federal government project in the Southern U. The city’s Rex Hospital opened in and included the state’s first nursing school.

The Baptist Women’s College, now known as Meredith College , opened in , and in , The Academy of Music , a private music conservatory, was established. In the late nineteenth century, two black Congressmen were elected from North Carolina’s 2nd district, the last in George Henry White sought to promote civil rights for blacks and to challenge efforts by white Democrats to reduce black voting by new discriminatory laws.

He and allies were unsuccessful. Based on a white supremacy campaign that returned Democrats to dominance, in the state legislature passed a new constitution , with a suffrage amendment that raised barriers to voter registration, resulting in the disenfranchisement of most blacks and many poor whites.

Loss of the ability to vote also disqualified black men and later women from sitting on juries and serving in any office—local, state or federal. The rising black middle-class in Raleigh and other areas was politically silenced and shut out of local governance, and the Republican Party was no longer competitive in the state.

It was not until after federal civil rights legislation was passed in the mids that the majority of blacks in North Carolina would again be able to vote, sit on juries and serve in local offices. By that time many African Americans had left the state in the Great Migration to northern industrial cities for more opportunities.

In , Bloomsbury Park opened, featuring a popular carousel ride. From to , an influenza epidemic killed Raleighites. In , WLAC signed on as the city’s first radio station, but lasted only two years.

It is now Raleigh’s oldest continuous radio broadcaster. In , the Raleigh Fall Festival was formed. The city’s first airport, Curtiss-Wright Flying Field, opened in That same year, the stock market crash resulted in six Raleigh banks closing. During the difficult s of the Great Depression , government at all levels was integral to creating jobs. The city provided recreational and educational programs, and hired people for public works projects.

In , Raleigh Memorial Auditorium was dedicated. The North Carolina Symphony , founded the same year, performed in its new home. From to , the federal Civilian Conservation Corps constructed the area now known as William B.

Umstead State Park. In , the State General Assembly chartered the Raleigh-Durham Aeronautical Authority to build a larger airport between Raleigh and Durham, [32] with the first flight occurring in In , Raleigh citizens adopted a council—manager form of government, the current form.

Council members are elected from single-member districts. They hire a city manager. Raleigh experienced significant damage from Hurricane Hazel in With the opening of the Research Triangle Park in , Raleigh began to experience a population increase, resulting in a total city population of , by Johnson presidency, political participation and voting by African Americans in Raleigh increased rapidly.

From the early-to-mid 20th century East Hargett Street was known as Raleigh’s “black main street” and hosted numerous black-owned businesses. The area declined after the city desegregated its establishments. By the early s people in Raleigh were growing increasingly concerned about growth and urban sprawl. Community organizations felt that municipal offices were being too heavily influenced by business interests when the city’s population was rapidly growing and various development projects were being proposed.

At their behest, the municipal elections were altered so that the mayor was to be directly elected, instead of being selected by the city council. Most city council seats were then made responsible to districts, instead of being held at-large.

The elections were the first contests affected by the reforms. Wesley Williams to become Raleigh’s first black mayor, and thus the first black mayor in a major white-majority city in the South.

In , the Raleigh City and Wake County schools merged to become the Wake County Public School System , now the largest school system in the state and 19th largest in the country.

During the s and s, the I beltline was constructed, in an attempt to ease traffic congestion and providing access to most major city roads. Fayetteville Street was turned into a pedestrian-only street in an effort to help the then-ailing downtown area, but the plan was flawed and business declined for years to come. Fayetteville Street was reopened in as the main thoroughfare of Raleigh’s downtown.

During the Raleigh tornado outbreak of November 28, , the city was affected by the most destructive of the seven tornadoes reported in Northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia between AM and AM. The damage path from the storm was measured at 84 miles km long, and. The tornado was rated F4. Also in , Hurricane Fran struck the area, causing massive flooding and extensive structural damage.

In , the National Hockey League ‘s Hartford Whalers announced their intention to move to Raleigh as the Carolina Hurricanes , becoming the city’s first major league professional sports franchise. In the first decade of the 21st century, Raleigh was featured prominently in a number of “Top 10 Lists”, including those by Forbes , MSNBC and Money magazine , due to its quality of life and favorable business climate.

Fayetteville Street reopened to vehicular traffic in With the opening of parts of I from to , a new mile km loop around Wake County, traffic congestion eased somewhat in the North Raleigh area. Completion of the entire loop is expected to take another 15 years. In April , a devastating EF-3 tornado hit Raleigh, and many other tornadoes touched down in the state ultimately the largest, but not the strongest outbreak to ever hit the state , killing 24 people.

There were 4 fatalities in the city. In September Holy Trinity Anglican Church was opened; the first church to be built in downtown Raleigh since The Neuse River flows through the northeastern corner of the city. Raleigh is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet. This area is known as the ” fall line ” because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers.

As a result, most of Raleigh features gently rolling hills that slope eastward toward the state’s flat coastal plain. The city of Raleigh is located 24 miles 39 km southeast of Durham , [53] 63 miles km northeast of Fayetteville , [54] miles km northwest of Wilmington , [55] miles km northeast of Charlotte , [56] and miles km southwest of Richmond, Virginia. Raleigh is divided into several major geographic areas, each of which use a Raleigh address and a ZIP code that begins with the digits The tower rises to a height of feet m , with a floor count of One common division of Raleigh is to differentiate the central part of the city, which lies inside of the circumferential highway known as the Raleigh Beltline I and I from areas outside of the Beltline.

The area inside of the beltline includes the entirety of the central business district known as Downtown Raleigh, as well as several more residential areas surrounding it. Augustine’s College.

Some of the names have become common place among locals such as the Warehouse, Fayetteville Street, and Glenwood South Districts. These neighborhoods were typically built before World War II, and roughly correspond to the extent of the city of Raleigh before the population boom of the latter half of the 20th century led to growth of the city limits beyond the historic urban core. Midtown Raleigh is a relatively new term used to describe the residential and commercial area lying on the northside of the I Beltline and is part of North Raleigh.

Most of East Raleigh’s development is along primary corridors such as U. The area is bordered to the east by the town of Knightdale. The area is bordered to the west and south by Cary.

These are located approximately 2 miles from Rex Hospital. North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse, and fast-growing suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly built subdivisions and along its northern fringes. The area generally falls North of Millbrook Road. It is primarily suburban with large shopping areas.

The area is served by a number of primary transportation corridors including Glenwood Avenue U. South Raleigh is located along U. This area is the least developed and least dense area of Raleigh much of the area lies within the Swift Creek watershed district, where development regulations limit housing densities and construction. The area is bordered to the west by Cary , to the east by Garner , to the southwest by Holly Springs and the southeast by Fuquay-Varina.

Southeast Raleigh is bounded by downtown on the west, Garner on the southwest, and rural Wake County to the southeast. Shaw University is located in this part of the city. Winters are generally cool, with a normal January daily mean temperature of February is the driest month, with an average of 2.

Precipitation is well distributed around the year, with a slight maximum between July and September, owing to generally frequent, sometimes heavy, showers and thunderstorms, and the threat of tropical weather systems primarily in from August to early October bringing heavy rainfall.

Summers are hot and humid, with a normal July daily mean temperature of In September , Raleigh recorded its wettest month ever, with over 21 inches of rain, due to torrential rainfall from tropical weather systems, most notably Hurricane Floyd on September 15— Raleigh receives an average of 5.

Freezing rain and sleet also occur most winters, and occasionally the area experiences a major damaging ice storm. On January 24—25, , Raleigh received its greatest snowfall from a single storm — Winter storms have caused traffic problems in the past as well. The region also experiences occasional periods of drought , during which the city sometimes has restricted water use by residents.

During the late summer and early fall, Raleigh can experience hurricanes. In , Hurricane Fran caused severe damage in the Raleigh area, mostly from falling trees. The most recent hurricane to have a considerable effect on the area was Hurricane Florence in Tornadoes also have on occasion affected the city of Raleigh, most notably the November 28, tornado which occurred in the early morning hours and rated F4 on the Fujita scale and affected northwestern portions of the city. As of the United States census , there were , people, , households, and , families residing in the city.

In the American Community Survey of , the city of Raleigh’s population was estimated at ,; an earlier estimate determined the population at , The population density was 2, There were , housing units at an average density of 1, There were , households in the city in , of which Unmarried partners were present in 2. In addition, The average household size in Raleigh was 2. Raleigh’s population in was evenly distributed with An estimated 8. For every females, there were The racial makeup of Raleigh in was In , the racial composition of the city was: Of the total population, In , an estimated Raleigh is home to a wide variety of religious practitioners.

The predominant religion in Raleigh is Christianity , with the largest numbers of adherents being Baptist Others include Presbyterianism 2. Judaism 0. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘s Uniform Crime Reports , in the Raleigh Police Department and other agencies in the city reported 1, incidents of violent crime and 8, incidents of property crime — far below both the national average and the North Carolina average.

Aggravated assault accounted for of the total violent crimes. Property crimes included burglaries which accounted for 1,, larcenies for 6, and Motor vehicle theft accounted for incidents out of the total.

Raleigh’s industrial base includes financial services, electrical, medical, electronic and telecommunications equipment, clothing and apparel, food processing, paper products, and pharmaceuticals.

Raleigh is part of North Carolina’s Research Triangle, one of the country’s largest and most successful research parks, and a major center in the United States for high-tech and biotech research, as well as advanced textile development. Raleigh was number one on the Forbes list of the best place for businesses and careers. Social Blade , a website that tracks social media statistics and analytics, and Temple Run developer Imangi Studios are based in Raleigh.

In April Steven P. Rosenthal of Northland Investment Corp. You have a lot of smart people living in the same place. That will drive the economy. According to Raleigh’s —18 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, [] the top employers in the city are:. In , the Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater opened now sponsored as the Red Hat Amphitheater , which hosts numerous concerts primarily in the summer months. An additional amphitheater sits on the grounds of the North Carolina Museum of Art, which hosts a summer concert series and outdoor movies.

The private Lincoln Theatre is one of several clubs in downtown Raleigh that schedules many concerts throughout the year in multiple formats rock, pop, country. In , a new theatre space, the Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, was opened in the restored auditorium of the historic Murphey School.

The numerous local colleges and universities significantly add to the options available for viewing live performances. In addition to its extensive collections of American Art , European Art and ancient art , the museum recently has hosted major exhibitions featuring Auguste Rodin in and Claude Monet in , each attracting more than , visitors. The museum’s outdoor park is one of the largest such art parks in the country.

The museum facility underwent a major expansion which greatly expanded the exhibit space that was completed in CAM Raleigh is a downtown contemporary art museum, also on Martin Street, that serves to promote new artists and does not house a permanent collection.

In addition to the Hurricanes, the North Carolina FC of the United Soccer League and North Carolina Courage women’s professional soccer team play in suburban Cary to the west; the Carolina Mudcats , a Single-A minor-league baseball team, play in the city’s eastern suburbs; the newly formed Single-A minor-league baseball Fayetteville Woodpeckers , who formerly played in Buies Creek , began play in the nearby out-of-county southern suburb of Fayetteville when their new ballpark opened in ; [] the Carolina 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 city of Durham.

North Carolina State University is located in southwest Raleigh where the Wolfpack competes nationally in 24 intercollegiate varsity sports as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Wolfpack women’s basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics as well as men’s wrestling events are held on campus at Reynolds Coliseum.

The men’s baseball team plays at Doak Field. Raleigh is also home to one of the Cheer Extreme All Stars gyms. Because of the area’s many billiards rooms, Raleigh is home to one of the largest amateur league franchises for playing pool , the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill American Poolplayers Association. There are leagues available in formats for players of any skill level. Raleigh is the home of Raleigh Kubb, both a competitive and non-competitive kubb club.

Raleigh Kubb hosts kubb tournaments benefitting various charities in the Raleigh area. The Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department offers a wide variety of leisure opportunities at more than sites throughout the city, which include: 8, acres 33 km 2 of park land, 78 miles km of greenway , 22 community centers , a BMX championship-caliber race track, tennis courts among 25 locations, 5 public lakes, and 8 public aquatic facilities. The park system includes the historic Pullen Park , the oldest public park in North Carolina.

The J. Raulston Arboretum , an 8-acre 32, m 2 arboretum and botanical garden in west Raleigh administered by North Carolina State University , maintains a year-round collection that is open daily to the public without charge. Historically, Raleigh voters have tended to elect conservative Democrats in local, state, and national elections, a holdover from their one-party system of the late 19th century.

Raleigh operates under a council-manager government. Raleigh City Council consists of eight members; all seats, including the Mayor’s , are open for election every two years. Five of the council seats are district representatives and two seats are citywide representatives elected at-large.

As of , Time ranked Raleigh as the third most educated city in the US based on the percentage of residents who held college degrees. Observers have praised the Wake County Public School System for its innovative efforts to maintain a socially, economically and racial balanced system by using income as a prime factor in assigning students to schools. There are four early college high schools in Raleigh. Raleigh also has two alternative high schools. The State of North Carolina provides for a legislated number of charter schools.

Raleigh is currently home to 11 such charter schools:. Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the region’s primary airport and the second-largest in North Carolina, located northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate between Raleigh and Durham , serves the city and greater Research Triangle metropolitan region, as well as much of eastern North Carolina.

The airport offers service to more than 50 domestic and international destinations and serves approximately 10 million passengers a year.

American Airlines operates the daily service to London Heathrow. The airport authority tripled the size of its Terminal 2 formerly Terminal C in January Raleigh’s train station is one of Amtrak ‘s busiest stops in the Southern U.

Although there are 33 routes, some routes are designed to cover multiple other routes at times when they are not served.

Depending on the time of the day, and the day of the week, the number of routes operating is between 5 and GoTriangle offers scheduled, fixed-route regional and commuter bus service between Raleigh and the region’s other principal cities of Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, as well as to and from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport , Research Triangle Park and several of the region’s larger suburban communities.

Triangle Transit also coordinates an extensive vanpool and rideshare program that serves the region’s larger employers and commute destinations. North Carolina State University also maintains its own transit system, the Wolfline , that provides zero-fare bus service to the general public along multiple routes serving the university’s campuses in southwest Raleigh.

Government agencies throughout the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area have struggled with determining the best means of providing fixed-rail transit service for the region. There were proposals to extend this corridor 7 miles to Chapel Hill with light rail technology. However, in Triangle Transit deferred implementation indefinitely when the Federal Transit Administration declined to fund the program due to low ridership projections.

The region’s two metropolitan planning organizations appointed a group of local citizens in to reexamine options for future transit development in light of Triangle Transit’s problems.

The Special Transit Advisory Commission STAC retained many of the provisions of Triangle Transit’s original plan, but recommended adding new bus services and raising additional revenues by adding a new local half-cent sales tax to fund the project. The Raleigh Fire Department provides fire protection throughout the city. Raleigh has several sister cities : []. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Capital city of North Carolina, United States. For other uses, see Raleigh disambiguation.

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The area declined after the city desegregated its establishments. By the early s people in Raleigh were growing increasingly concerned about growth and urban sprawl. Community organizations felt that municipal offices were being too heavily influenced by business interests when the city’s population was rapidly growing and various development projects were being proposed.

At their behest, the municipal elections were altered so that the mayor was to be directly elected, instead of being selected by the city council.

Most city council seats were then made responsible to districts, instead of being held at-large. The elections were the first contests affected by the reforms. Wesley Williams to become Raleigh’s first black mayor, and thus the first black mayor in a major white-majority city in the South.

In , the Raleigh City and Wake County schools merged to become the Wake County Public School System , now the largest school system in the state and 19th largest in the country. During the s and s, the I beltline was constructed, in an attempt to ease traffic congestion and providing access to most major city roads.

Fayetteville Street was turned into a pedestrian-only street in an effort to help the then-ailing downtown area, but the plan was flawed and business declined for years to come. Fayetteville Street was reopened in as the main thoroughfare of Raleigh’s downtown. During the Raleigh tornado outbreak of November 28, , the city was affected by the most destructive of the seven tornadoes reported in Northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia between AM and AM. The damage path from the storm was measured at 84 miles km long, and.

The tornado was rated F4. Also in , Hurricane Fran struck the area, causing massive flooding and extensive structural damage. In , the National Hockey League ‘s Hartford Whalers announced their intention to move to Raleigh as the Carolina Hurricanes , becoming the city’s first major league professional sports franchise.

In the first decade of the 21st century, Raleigh was featured prominently in a number of “Top 10 Lists”, including those by Forbes , MSNBC and Money magazine , due to its quality of life and favorable business climate. Fayetteville Street reopened to vehicular traffic in With the opening of parts of I from to , a new mile km loop around Wake County, traffic congestion eased somewhat in the North Raleigh area. Completion of the entire loop is expected to take another 15 years.

In April , a devastating EF-3 tornado hit Raleigh, and many other tornadoes touched down in the state ultimately the largest, but not the strongest outbreak to ever hit the state , killing 24 people.

There were 4 fatalities in the city. In September Holy Trinity Anglican Church was opened; the first church to be built in downtown Raleigh since The Neuse River flows through the northeastern corner of the city. Raleigh is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet.

This area is known as the ” fall line ” because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers. As a result, most of Raleigh features gently rolling hills that slope eastward toward the state’s flat coastal plain. The city of Raleigh is located 24 miles 39 km southeast of Durham , [53] 63 miles km northeast of Fayetteville , [54] miles km northwest of Wilmington , [55] miles km northeast of Charlotte , [56] and miles km southwest of Richmond, Virginia.

Raleigh is divided into several major geographic areas, each of which use a Raleigh address and a ZIP code that begins with the digits The tower rises to a height of feet m , with a floor count of One common division of Raleigh is to differentiate the central part of the city, which lies inside of the circumferential highway known as the Raleigh Beltline I and I from areas outside of the Beltline.

The area inside of the beltline includes the entirety of the central business district known as Downtown Raleigh, as well as several more residential areas surrounding it. Augustine’s College. Some of the names have become common place among locals such as the Warehouse, Fayetteville Street, and Glenwood South Districts.

These neighborhoods were typically built before World War II, and roughly correspond to the extent of the city of Raleigh before the population boom of the latter half of the 20th century led to growth of the city limits beyond the historic urban core.

Midtown Raleigh is a relatively new term used to describe the residential and commercial area lying on the northside of the I Beltline and is part of North Raleigh. Most of East Raleigh’s development is along primary corridors such as U. The area is bordered to the east by the town of Knightdale. The area is bordered to the west and south by Cary.

These are located approximately 2 miles from Rex Hospital. North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse, and fast-growing suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly built subdivisions and along its northern fringes. The area generally falls North of Millbrook Road. It is primarily suburban with large shopping areas. The area is served by a number of primary transportation corridors including Glenwood Avenue U. South Raleigh is located along U.

This area is the least developed and least dense area of Raleigh much of the area lies within the Swift Creek watershed district, where development regulations limit housing densities and construction. The area is bordered to the west by Cary , to the east by Garner , to the southwest by Holly Springs and the southeast by Fuquay-Varina. Southeast Raleigh is bounded by downtown on the west, Garner on the southwest, and rural Wake County to the southeast.

Shaw University is located in this part of the city. Winters are generally cool, with a normal January daily mean temperature of February is the driest month, with an average of 2.

Precipitation is well distributed around the year, with a slight maximum between July and September, owing to generally frequent, sometimes heavy, showers and thunderstorms, and the threat of tropical weather systems primarily in from August to early October bringing heavy rainfall. Summers are hot and humid, with a normal July daily mean temperature of In September , Raleigh recorded its wettest month ever, with over 21 inches of rain, due to torrential rainfall from tropical weather systems, most notably Hurricane Floyd on September 15— Raleigh receives an average of 5.

Freezing rain and sleet also occur most winters, and occasionally the area experiences a major damaging ice storm. On January 24—25, , Raleigh received its greatest snowfall from a single storm — Winter storms have caused traffic problems in the past as well. The region also experiences occasional periods of drought , during which the city sometimes has restricted water use by residents.

During the late summer and early fall, Raleigh can experience hurricanes. In , Hurricane Fran caused severe damage in the Raleigh area, mostly from falling trees.

The most recent hurricane to have a considerable effect on the area was Hurricane Florence in Tornadoes also have on occasion affected the city of Raleigh, most notably the November 28, tornado which occurred in the early morning hours and rated F4 on the Fujita scale and affected northwestern portions of the city. As of the United States census , there were , people, , households, and , families residing in the city.

In the American Community Survey of , the city of Raleigh’s population was estimated at ,; an earlier estimate determined the population at , The population density was 2, There were , housing units at an average density of 1, There were , households in the city in , of which Unmarried partners were present in 2.

In addition, The average household size in Raleigh was 2. Raleigh’s population in was evenly distributed with An estimated 8. For every females, there were The racial makeup of Raleigh in was In , the racial composition of the city was: Of the total population, In , an estimated Raleigh is home to a wide variety of religious practitioners. The predominant religion in Raleigh is Christianity , with the largest numbers of adherents being Baptist Others include Presbyterianism 2.

Judaism 0. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘s Uniform Crime Reports , in the Raleigh Police Department and other agencies in the city reported 1, incidents of violent crime and 8, incidents of property crime — far below both the national average and the North Carolina average.

Aggravated assault accounted for of the total violent crimes. Property crimes included burglaries which accounted for 1,, larcenies for 6, and Motor vehicle theft accounted for incidents out of the total. Raleigh’s industrial base includes financial services, electrical, medical, electronic and telecommunications equipment, clothing and apparel, food processing, paper products, and pharmaceuticals. Raleigh is part of North Carolina’s Research Triangle, one of the country’s largest and most successful research parks, and a major center in the United States for high-tech and biotech research, as well as advanced textile development.

Raleigh was number one on the Forbes list of the best place for businesses and careers. Social Blade , a website that tracks social media statistics and analytics, and Temple Run developer Imangi Studios are based in Raleigh.

In April Steven P. Rosenthal of Northland Investment Corp. You have a lot of smart people living in the same place. That will drive the economy.

According to Raleigh’s —18 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, [] the top employers in the city are:. In , the Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater opened now sponsored as the Red Hat Amphitheater , which hosts numerous concerts primarily in the summer months.

An additional amphitheater sits on the grounds of the North Carolina Museum of Art, which hosts a summer concert series and outdoor movies. The private Lincoln Theatre is one of several clubs in downtown Raleigh that schedules many concerts throughout the year in multiple formats rock, pop, country. In , a new theatre space, the Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, was opened in the restored auditorium of the historic Murphey School.

The numerous local colleges and universities significantly add to the options available for viewing live performances. In addition to its extensive collections of American Art , European Art and ancient art , the museum recently has hosted major exhibitions featuring Auguste Rodin in and Claude Monet in , each attracting more than , visitors.

The museum’s outdoor park is one of the largest such art parks in the country. The museum facility underwent a major expansion which greatly expanded the exhibit space that was completed in CAM Raleigh is a downtown contemporary art museum, also on Martin Street, that serves to promote new artists and does not house a permanent collection.

In addition to the Hurricanes, the North Carolina FC of the United Soccer League and North Carolina Courage women’s professional soccer team play in suburban Cary to the west; the Carolina Mudcats , a Single-A minor-league baseball team, play in the city’s eastern suburbs; the newly formed Single-A minor-league baseball Fayetteville Woodpeckers , who formerly played in Buies Creek , began play in the nearby out-of-county southern suburb of Fayetteville when their new ballpark opened in ; [] the Carolina 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 city of Durham.

North Carolina State University is located in southwest Raleigh where the Wolfpack competes nationally in 24 intercollegiate varsity sports as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Wolfpack women’s basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics as well as men’s wrestling events are held on campus at Reynolds Coliseum. The men’s baseball team plays at Doak Field. Raleigh is also home to one of the Cheer Extreme All Stars gyms. Because of the area’s many billiards rooms, Raleigh is home to one of the largest amateur league franchises for playing pool , the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill American Poolplayers Association.

There are leagues available in formats for players of any skill level. Raleigh is the home of Raleigh Kubb, both a competitive and non-competitive kubb club. Raleigh Kubb hosts kubb tournaments benefitting various charities in the Raleigh area.

The Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department offers a wide variety of leisure opportunities at more than sites throughout the city, which include: 8, acres 33 km 2 of park land, 78 miles km of greenway , 22 community centers , a BMX championship-caliber race track, tennis courts among 25 locations, 5 public lakes, and 8 public aquatic facilities. The park system includes the historic Pullen Park , the oldest public park in North Carolina. The J. Raulston Arboretum , an 8-acre 32, m 2 arboretum and botanical garden in west Raleigh administered by North Carolina State University , maintains a year-round collection that is open daily to the public without charge.

Historically, Raleigh voters have tended to elect conservative Democrats in local, state, and national elections, a holdover from their one-party system of the late 19th century.

Raleigh operates under a council-manager government. Raleigh City Council consists of eight members; all seats, including the Mayor’s , are open for election every two years.

Five of the council seats are district representatives and two seats are citywide representatives elected at-large. As of , Time ranked Raleigh as the third most educated city in the US based on the percentage of residents who held college degrees. Observers have praised the Wake County Public School System for its innovative efforts to maintain a socially, economically and racial balanced system by using income as a prime factor in assigning students to schools.

There are four early college high schools in Raleigh. Raleigh also has two alternative high schools. The State of North Carolina provides for a legislated number of charter schools. Raleigh is currently home to 11 such charter schools:. Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the region’s primary airport and the second-largest in North Carolina, located northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate between Raleigh and Durham , serves the city and greater Research Triangle metropolitan region, as well as much of eastern North Carolina.

The airport offers service to more than 50 domestic and international destinations and serves approximately 10 million passengers a year. American Airlines operates the daily service to London Heathrow. The airport authority tripled the size of its Terminal 2 formerly Terminal C in January Raleigh’s train station is one of Amtrak ‘s busiest stops in the Southern U.

Although there are 33 routes, some routes are designed to cover multiple other routes at times when they are not served. Depending on the time of the day, and the day of the week, the number of routes operating is between 5 and GoTriangle offers scheduled, fixed-route regional and commuter bus service between Raleigh and the region’s other principal cities of Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, as well as to and from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport , Research Triangle Park and several of the region’s larger suburban communities.

Triangle Transit also coordinates an extensive vanpool and rideshare program that serves the region’s larger employers and commute destinations. North Carolina State University also maintains its own transit system, the Wolfline , that provides zero-fare bus service to the general public along multiple routes serving the university’s campuses in southwest Raleigh. Government agencies throughout the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area have struggled with determining the best means of providing fixed-rail transit service for the region.

There were proposals to extend this corridor 7 miles to Chapel Hill with light rail technology. However, in Triangle Transit deferred implementation indefinitely when the Federal Transit Administration declined to fund the program due to low ridership projections. The region’s two metropolitan planning organizations appointed a group of local citizens in to reexamine options for future transit development in light of Triangle Transit’s problems.

The Special Transit Advisory Commission STAC retained many of the provisions of Triangle Transit’s original plan, but recommended adding new bus services and raising additional revenues by adding a new local half-cent sales tax to fund the project.

The Raleigh Fire Department provides fire protection throughout the city. Raleigh has several sister cities : []. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Capital city of North Carolina, United States.

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Retrieved November 2, Retrieved March 14, Retrieved July 11, The award-winning Heaton Park in the north of the city borough is one of the largest municipal parks in Europe, covering acres ha of parkland. Two large squares hold many of Manchester’s public monuments. The cenotaph in St Peter’s Square is Manchester’s main memorial to its war dead.

Designed by Edwin Lutyens , it echoes the original on Whitehall in London. Two of the city’s four main line termini did not survive the s: Manchester Central and Manchester Exchange each closed in In addition, Manchester Mayfield station closed to passenger services in ; its buildings and platforms are still extant, next to Piccadilly station , but are due to be redeveloped in the s. Today, the city is well served by its rail network although it is now working to capacity, [] and is at the centre of an extensive county-wide railway network, including the West Coast Main Line , with two mainline stations: Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria.

Recent improvements in Manchester as part of the Northern Hub in the s have been numerous electrification schemes into and through Manchester, redevelopment of Victoria station and construction of the Ordsall Chord directly linking Victoria and Piccadilly.

Manchester city centre, specifically the Castlefield Corridor , suffers from constrained rail capacity that frequently leads to delays and cancellations — a report found that all three major Manchester stations are among the top ten worst stations in the United Kingdom for punctuality, with Oxford Road deemed the worst in the country.

Manchester became the first city in the UK to acquire a modern light rail tram system when the Manchester Metrolink opened in In —, The city has one of the most extensive bus networks outside London, with over 50 bus companies operating in the Greater Manchester region radiating from the city.

In , 80 per cent of public transport journeys in Greater Manchester were made by bus, amounting to million passenger journeys each year. The airport is the third busiest in the United Kingdom , with over double the number of annual passengers of the next busiest non-London airport.

The airport has the highest rating available: ” Category 10 “, encompassing an elite group of airports able to handle ” Code F ” aircraft, including the Airbus A and Boeing A smaller City Airport Manchester exists 9. It was Manchester’s first municipal airport and became the site of the first air traffic control tower in the UK, and the first municipal airfield in the UK to be licensed by the Air Ministry. An extensive canal network, including the Manchester Ship Canal , was built to carry freight from the Industrial Revolution onward; the canals are still maintained, though now largely repurposed for leisure use.

Cycling for transportation and leisure enjoys popularity in Manchester and the city also plays a major role in British cycle racing.

Singer-songwriter Ren Harvieu is also from Greater Manchester. Brass band music, a tradition in the north of England, is important to Manchester’s musical heritage; [] some of the UK’s leading bands, such as the CWS Manchester Band and the Fairey Band , are from Manchester and surrounding areas, and the Whit Friday brass-band contest takes place annually in the neighbouring areas of Saddleworth and Tameside.

Manchester has a thriving theatre, opera and dance scene, with a number of large performance venues, including Manchester Opera House , which feature large-scale touring shows and West End productions; the Palace Theatre ; and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester’s former cotton exchange, which is the largest theatre in the round in the UK.

Smaller venues include the Contact Theatre and Z-arts in Hulme. The Dancehouse on Oxford Road is dedicated to dance productions. Housing two theatre spaces, five cinemas and an art exhibition space, it replaced the Cornerhouse and The Library Theatre.

Since the city has hosted the Manchester International Festival , a biennial international arts festival with a focus on original work, which has included major new commissions by artists, including Bjork. Manchester’s museums celebrate Manchester’s Roman history, rich industrial heritage and its role in the Industrial Revolution , the textile industry , the Trade Union movement, women’s suffrage and football.

A reconstructed part of the Roman fort of Mamucium is open to the public in Castlefield. The Science and Industry Museum , housed in the former Liverpool Road railway station , has a large collection of steam locomotives , industrial machinery, aircraft and a replica of the world’s first stored computer program known as the Manchester Baby. The municipally owned Manchester Art Gallery in Mosley Street houses a permanent collection of European painting and one of Britain’s main collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

In the south of the city, the Whitworth Art Gallery displays modern art, sculpture and textiles and was voted Museum of the Year in The work of Stretford -born painter L. Lowry , known for “matchstick” paintings of industrial Manchester and Salford, can be seen in the City and Whitworth Manchester galleries, and at the Lowry art centre in Salford Quays in the neighbouring borough of Salford , which devotes a large permanent exhibition to his works.

The two began writing The Communist Manifesto in Chetham’s Library [] — founded in and claiming to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. Elsewhere in the city, the John Rylands Library holds an extensive collection of early printing. The Rylands Library Papyrus P52 , believed to be the earliest extant New Testament text, is on permanent display there. Letitia Landon ‘s poem Manchester in Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book, , records the rapid growth of the city and its cultural importance.

Charles Dickens is reputed to have set his novel Hard Times in the city, and though partly modelled on Preston , it shows the influence of his friend Mrs Gaskell. She was accompanying her father Patrick , who was convalescing in the city after cataract surgery. Anthony Burgess is among the 20th-century writers who made Manchester their home. He wrote here the dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange in The night-time economy of Manchester has expanded significantly since about , with investment from breweries in bars, public houses and clubs, along with active support from the local authorities.

Many of the big clubs suffered problems with organised crime at that time; Haslam describes one where staff were so completely intimidated that free admission and drinks were demanded and given and drugs were openly dealt. Since the opening of new bars and clubs, the area attracts 20, visitors each weekend [] and has hosted a popular festival, Manchester Pride , each August since There are three universities in the City of Manchester. The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non- collegiate university in the United Kingdom, [] created in by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester , founded in , and UMIST , founded in , [] having developed from the Mechanics’ Institute founded, as indicated in the university’s logo, in Manchester Metropolitan University was formed as Manchester Polytechnic on the merger of three colleges in The three universities are grouped around Oxford Road on the southern side of the city centre, which forms Europe’s largest urban higher-education precinct.

One of Manchester’s notable secondary schools is Manchester Grammar School. Established in , [] as a free grammar school next to what is now the cathedral, it moved in to Old Hall Lane in Fallowfield, south Manchester, to accommodate the growing student body. In the post-war period, it was a direct grant grammar school i. The Manchester Velodrome , built as a part of the bid for the games, has become a catalyst for British success in cycling.

The Guardian newspaper was founded in the city in as The Manchester Guardian. Until , its head office was still in the city, though many of its management functions were moved to London in At its height, 1, journalists were employed, earning the city the nickname “second Fleet Street “. In the s the titles closed their northern offices and centred their operations in London. The main regional newspaper in the city is the Manchester Evening News , which was for over 80 years the sister publication of The Manchester Guardian.

Despite its title, it is available all day. Several local weekly free papers are distributed by the MEN group.

The Metro North West is available free at Metrolink stops, rail stations and other busy locations. An attempt to launch a Northern daily newspaper, the North West Times , employing journalists made redundant by other titles, closed in Manchester has been a centre of television broadcasting since the s.

A number of television studios have been in operation around the city, and have since relocated to MediaCityUK in neighbouring Salford.

Now based at MediaCityUK, the company’s former headquarters at Granada Studios on Quay Street with its distinctive illuminated sign were a prominent landmark on the Manchester skyline for several decades. Although its influence has waned, Granada had been described as “the best commercial television company in the world”. With the growth in regional television in the s, Manchester became one of the BBC ‘s three main centres in England. The Manchester television channel, Channel M , owned by the Guardian Media Group operated from , but closed in It began its first broadcast, but in , That’s Manchester took over to air on 31 May and launched the freeview channel 8 service slot, before moving to channel 7 in April These stations and pirate radio played a significant role in the city’s house music culture, the Madchester scene.

Manchester has formal twinning arrangements or “friendship agreements” with several places. Manchester is home to the largest group of consuls in the UK outside London. The expansion of international trade links during the Industrial Revolution led to the introduction of the first consuls in the s and since then over , from all parts of the world, have been based in Manchester.

Manchester hosts consular services for most of the north of England. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. City in North West England. For other uses, see Manchester disambiguation. City and metropolitan borough in England. City and metropolitan borough. Clockwise from top: Manchester city centre as seen from a distance of approximately 12 miles Coat of arms. Latin: “Concilio Et Labore” “By wisdom and effort”.

Shown within Greater Manchester. M , WA Ringway. Main article: History of Manchester. See also: Timeline of Manchester history. Main article: Mamucium. View from Kersal Moor towards Manchester by Sebastian Pether , circa , then still a rural landscape. Note the River Irwell in both paintings. Manchester from Kersal Moor , by William Wyld in , a view now dominated by chimney stacks as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. See also: Geography of Greater Manchester. Climate data for Manchester MAN , elevation: 69 m ft , — normals, extremes —present.

Further information: North West Green Belt. Neighbouring districts and places. Salford Bury Oldham Salford Manchester. See also: Demography of Greater Manchester. Racial structure, according to the census [2] White Groups Asian Black 8.

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