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a <br /> • <br /> revocably instructed to redeem the 2001 Bonds on February 1, 2011 and the 2003 Bonds on March 1, 23 <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 /> r <br /> 4 <br />