What is Chapel Hill, North Carolina?
'''Chapel Hill''' is a town in the [[U.S. state]] of [[North Carolina]]. It has about 60,000 people. It is in an area called The Triangle, because it is next to [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] and [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]]. ==Geography== Chapel Hill is in southeastern Orange [[County]]. It is southwest of Durham and northwest of Raleigh. [[Interstate 40]] goes north and east of Chapel Hill, while [[highway|highways]] 15-501 and 54 go through it. ==History== Chapel Hill got its name from a [[chapel]] on a hill, that was around in the 1700s. In 1792, The [[University of North Carolina]] (UNC) was started, which helped Chapel Hill grow. But it was a small town until the 1950s, when it started growing faster, like the rest of The Triangle. By 1970, it had 25,000 people. Since then, Chapel Hill has been somewhat rich. The town was the place where the [[2015 Chapel Hill shooting]] happened, which some newspapers described as [[Islamophobic]].<ref>[http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-The-Chapel-Hill-Shooti-by-Erik-Ose-ATHEIST_Anti-Muslim_Chapel-Hill-Shooting_Facebook-150217-554.html Why The Chapel Hill Shooting Was An Islamophobic Hate Crime] retrieved 20 February 2015</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Durham County, North Carolina}} {{North Carolina}} {{US-geo-stub}} [[Category:Towns in North Carolina]] [[Category:Durham County, North Carolina]]