History of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the oldest state-supported university in the United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 48,715. As of 2004 its estimated population was 52,440[http://townofchapelhill.org/index.asp?NID=3 Town of Chapel Hill].
The 2005 Metropolitan Population was: 1,509,560, for The US Office of Management and Budget's Metropolitan Combined Statistical Area known as Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina|Durham-Cary, North Carolina|Cary (formerly known as the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Chapel Hill, Durham, North Carolina|Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of the Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh. Since the early 1980s, the bedroom community of Cary, near Raleigh, has grown to be more than twice the size of Chapel Hill.
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