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The third point of the Research Triangle area is Chapel Hill, a small city
that has managed to hold on to its village atmosphere in spite of the
presence of a university that annualy enrolls more than 22,000 students.
Chapel Hill is the University of North Carolina and has been in existence
since 1795, when it was the first state university in the country. The 2000
acre campus holds 125 university building in the country, to the Morehead
Platarium, which was an astroncut training center in the early days of the
U.s. space program. It is estimated that the residents of Chapel Hill
purchase more books per capita than anybody else in North Carolina. They
also write them. As one local said, " It's no big deal to pick up the Book
review of the New York Times and find your neighbour on the colver " Lee
Smith author of 11 novels about the soutb, lives in the area, as does Atlan
Gurganas, author of the prize winning novel oldest living confederate wdow
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