{"id":225,"date":"2019-11-06T18:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=225"},"modified":"2019-11-15T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:32:01","slug":"nash","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nash County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nash County, established on Dec. 24, 1777, is located about 45 miles northeast of NC State&#8217;s campus. The county seat is Nashville and is part of the Rocky Mount Metropolitan Statistical Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>T<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is poultry\/eggs, while the largest product by acreage is soybeans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The type of livestock produced most by total number is meat-type chickens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county&#8217;s largest manufacturer and largest employer is Pfizer, which manufactures pharmaceuticals and employs more than 3,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The county is home to North Carolina Wesleyan College, a private four-year liberal arts school in Rocky Mount, Nash Community College and a branch of Edgecombe County Community College. Shaw University&#8217;s College of Adult and Professional Education program has a satellite campus in Rocky Mount.<\/p>\n<p>Nash County Community College is a partner with NC State in the <a href=\"https:\/\/c3.ncsu.edu\/\">Community College Collaboration (C3)<\/a>, a dual-admission program that offers alternative pathways to degrees for students who are from low-to-moderate income families and who have demonstrated academic success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-225","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/225\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}