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Orange County, a 398-square-mile rectangle between Durham and
Alamance counties, was named after Prince William IV of Orange.
It's county seat is Hillsborough (county courthouse shown at right), located in the
northern part of the county.
The county's largest town, however, is Chapel Hill, home of the University of North Carolina system's
flagship university. The university, it's athletic teams and the village feel of this quintessential
college town are why it's known as "the southern part of Heaven."
Orange County residents can, it seems, have it both ways. The cosmopolitan university community,
with its cultural amenities and sophisticated night life, is but a few miles from the
largely rural northern part of the county. Hillsborough, with its Colonial feel, couldn't be
more different from Chapel Hill and its bustle of thousands of undergraduates. But the combination is alluring.
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