Raleigh looks like a typical Southern capital on the map — but in reality, it’s one of the strangest big cities in America, because it was never supposed to be a city at all. It has no river, no harbor, no port, and no natural reason to exist. It wasn’t founded by settlers or built around a trade route. It was invented — designed from nothing by a committee, on land bought…

Part of the I’M SO NC archive of North Carolina culture.

Originally posted by GeoLogic on YouTube.