NORTHBRIDGE 



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NORTH CAROLINA 



NORTH 'BRIDGE, MASS., a town in Worces- 

 ter County, situated southeast of the geograph- 

 ical center of the state, about twelve miles 

 southeast of the city of Worcester, where the 

 Blackstone and Mumford rivers meet. The 

 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway 

 i he town, and electric lines connect with 

 cities and towns north and south. Northbridge 

 has big machine shops, cotton, woolen and pa- 

 per mills and cigar factories. Its waterworks 

 are owned and operated by one of the machine- 

 manufacturing plants. The town also has a li- 

 brary and a hospital. It was settled in 1662, 

 but was a part of Mendon until it was incor- 

 porated as a separate town in 1772. Several 



villages unite to form the town of Northbridge, 

 which in 1910 had a population of 8,807; in 

 1916 it was 9,918 (Federal estimate). The area 

 is about fifteen square miles. 



NORTH CAPE, a desolate, rocky headland 

 rising abruptly to a height of 1,000 feet above 

 the sea. It is located far to the north on the 

 island of Magrrii. which lies in the Arctic Ocean 

 near the north coast of Norway. In the sum- 

 mer North Cape attracts many visitors who 

 come there to view the "midnight sun." Next 

 to the neighboring island of Knivskjaerodden, 

 it is the most northerly point of Europe. Tin* 

 northernmost point of the mainland is 41 miles 

 east. See NORWAY. 



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NORTH CAROLINA Universit V 



ORTH CAROLINA, popularly known 

 as the OLD NORTH STATE or TAR HEEL STATE, 

 one of the original thirteen states of the Ameri- 

 Hion, belonging to the South Atlantic 

 group. This state possesses striking contrasts 

 of surface, rising from extensive swamps along 

 the coast to the loftiest mountains east of the 

 Rockies. 



Size and Location. Lying between Virginia 

 and South Carolina on the Atlantic coast, 

 North Carolina covers an area of 52,426 square 

 and ranks twenty-seventh in size among 

 the states. Its gross area is about equal to 

 that of the state of Alabama, and includes large 

 lagoons and sounds, enclosed by long, narrow, 

 barrier beaches; this water area, with the riv- 

 ers and a few unimportant lakes, covers 3,686 

 square miles. 



The People. Although the greater part of the 

 population of North Carolina is rural, the av- 

 erage number of inhabitants per square mile 

 (45.3) is high, and the population of the state 

 is almost njM.il to that of California, whu-h is 

 about throe times its size. In 1910, with 2,206,- 

 287 inhabitants, it ranked sixteenth in popu- 

 lation among the states of the Union. The 

 estimated population January 1, 1917. was 

 2,418,559, over nm-thinl of this number being 

 negroes. The Indians, numbering 7350, are 

 kees, occupying the Qualla Reservation, 



and Croatans, a mixed breed, living in Robeson 

 County. There are comparatively few foreign- 

 ers in the state. 



Until the end of the nineteenth century. when 

 manufacturing industries began to be impor- 

 tant, Wilmington was the only town in North 

 Carolina with a population of 15,000. There 

 are now seven cities in the state with over 15,- 

 000, the largest of which is Chariot 

 are Winston-Salem, Wilmington, Raleigh, the 

 capital, Asheville, Durham and Greensboro. 

 Each is described in these volumes. 



About one-half of all church members are 

 Baptists and nearly one-third are Methodists. 

 Other prominent denomination* are the 1' 

 tcrians, Lutherans, Disciples of Christ, Episco- 

 palians, Congrcgationalists, and Roman Catho- 

 lics. 



Education. In common with other Southern 

 North Carolina has had the problems of 

 administering an educational system in \\nl- -ly 

 <1 rural communities and among a large 

 population of negroes, but it has long 1 

 advanced position in educational matters among 

 the states of the South. The present system, 

 established in 1839, was based on the ideas of 

 Archibald I >e How Murphy, an educator 



M of his time. Another name notable 

 in the development of North Carolina's schools 

 is that of Calvin Henderson Wiley, a promi- 



