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23 <br />revocably instructed to redeem the 2001 Bonds on February 1, 2011 and the 2003 Bonds on March 1, <br />2013. <br />THE COUNTY <br />General Description <br />The County, founded in 1752, is located in the north-central portion of the State on the Pied- <br />mont Plateau. Bisected from east to west by Interstate Highway 85, the County lies approximately <br />midway between the cities of Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C. <br />The County is part of the Raleigh-Durham Metropolitan Statistical Area, which also includes <br />the Research Triangle Park, a major complex of research and research-oriented manufacturing facil- <br />ities. <br />There are four municipalities in the County: the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the sou- <br />theastern part of the County and the Town of Hillsborough and the City of Mebane in the central <br />corridor of the County along Interstate Highway 85 and Interstate Highway 40. Population esti- <br />mates by the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management for the year 2008 are: Chapel <br />Hill - 55,616, Carrboro - 19,479, Hillsborough - 6,660 and Mebane - 9,848. <br />4 <br />