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• locality, who personally know one another and, to some extent, visit among themselves, and who usually are accustomed to working together as a local unit. Their homes are usually centered around a church, store, filling station, or school . A community may be defined as a group of neighborhoods which have a natural tendency to associate together because of common interests. The • comunity usually possesses one center to which most of its people go fairly often. Communities are more arbitrarily delineated then neighborhoods since factors such as physical barriers, nearby towns, and the locations of common meeting places, schools, churches, etc. , may attract people from the same neighborhood to different places. The neighborhoods and communities that were important in an earlier time are less important now when people's social spheres are expanded by the automobile. However, people in Eno Township still identify to some extent with Pleasant Green, Palmer Grove, and St. Mary's communities that were impor- tant communities in the past, Eno Township has experienced rapid growth in more recent times. Preliminary population figures from the 1980 Census show that between 1970 and 1980 the population of Eno Township increases by 2440 persons from 1641 persons in 1970 to 4081 persons in 1980. This is a 60% increase in population Over the 10 year period. Most of this growth has taken place in southern and western Eno Township. This area has good access to employment centers in the City of Durham and Research Triangle Park via U. S. 70 and 1-85. The Research Triangle Park continues to grow. General Electric has recently announced the construction of an electronics plant which will employ 1500 people. As long as this kind of growth continues the population of Eno Township will probably grow at a rate similar to that experienced over the past 10 years.