GOLDSBORO, a city of North Carolina, U.S.A., on the Neuse river, 5om. S.E. of Raleigh ; the county seat of Wayne county. It is on Federal highways 7o and 171, and is served by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Norfolk Southern and the Southern railways. The population was 11,296 in 1920 (43% negroes) and was 14,985 in 1930 by Federal census. It is an important market and shipping point for bright-leaf tobacco, cotton and early vegetables, and has over 3o substantial manufacturing establishments, with an output in 1925 valued at $5,109,914. The State Odd Fellows' orphan home and a State hospital for insane negroes are situated here. Goldsboro was settled in 1838 and incorporated in 1841. Between 1910 and 1920 the population almost doubled. Since 1920 it has had a commission-manager form of government. In the campaign of 1865 the Union armies under Sherman and Schofield united here before the final advance to Greensboro.