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| Title | Historical Raleigh: With Sketches of Wake County (from 1771) and Its Important Towns; Descriptive, Biographical, Educational, Industrial, Religious American County Histories - NC only |
| Author | Moses Neal Amis |
| Publisher | Commercial Printing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Sep 12, 2006 |
| Length | 289 pages |
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