GREENSBORO  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

• GUILFORD
• GUILFORD, BARONS AND EARLS OF

Guilford county, See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North Carolina, U.S.A., about 8o m . N.W. of See also:

• RALEIGH
• RALEIGH, SIR WALTER (c. 1552-1618)

Raleigh . Pop . (1890) 3317, (1900) 10,035, of whom 4086 were negroes; (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 15,895 . Greensboro is. served by several lines of the See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern railway . It is situated in the See also:

• PIEDMONT (Ital. Piemonte; Low Lat. Pedemons and Pedemontium)

Piedmont region of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state and has an excellent See also:

• CLIMATE

climate . The city is the seat of the State Normal and See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

Industrial See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (1892) for girls; of the Greensboro See also:

• FEMALE

Female College (Methodist Episcopal, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South; chartered in 1838 and opened in 1846), of which the Rev . See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles F . See also:

• DEEMS, CHARLES (ALEXANDER) FORCE (1820-1893)

Deems was See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president in 1850-1854, and which, owing to the burning of its buildings, was suspended from 1863 to 1874; and of two institutions for negroes—a State Agricultural and See also:

• MECHANICAL

Mechanical College, andBennett College(MethodistEpiscopal,co-educational, 1873) . Another school for negroes, Immanuel Lutheran College (Evangelical Lutheran, co-educational), was opened at See also:

• CONCORD
• CONCORD, BOOK OF (Liber Concordiae)

Concord, N.C., in 1903, was removed to Greensboro in 1905, and in 1907 was established at Lutherville, E. of Greensboro . About 6 m . W. of Greensboro is Guilford College (co-educational; See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

Friends), founded as " New See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden Boarding School " in 1837 and re-chartered under its See also:

• PRESENT

present name in 1888 .

Greensboro has a See also:

• CARNEGIE
• CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

Carnegie library, St See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital and a large auditorium . It is the See also:

• SHIPPING

shipping-point for an agricultural, lumbering and trucking region, among whose products See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn, See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco and See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton are especially important; is an important See also:

• INSURANCE

insurance centre; has a large wholesale See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade; and has various manufactures, including cotton goods 1 (especially See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue See also:

• DENIM (an abbreviation of serge de Nimes)

denim), tobacco and cigars, See also:

• LUMBER

lumber, See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, See also:

• SASH

sash, doors and blinds, machinery, foundry products and terra-See also:

• COTTA
• COTTA, BERNHARD VON (1808—1879)
• COTTA, GAIUS AURELIUS (c. 124—73 B.c.)

cotta . The value of the factory products increased from $925,411 in 1900 to $1,828,837 in 1905, or 97.6% . The See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates the See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• WORKS

works . Greensboro was named in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• NATHANAEL

Nathanael See also:

• GREENE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1811-1883)
• GREENE, MAURICE (1695-1755)
• GREENE, NATHANAEL (1742-1786)
• GREENE, ROBERT (c. 1560-1592)

Greene, who on the 15th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1781 fought with See also:

• CORNWALLIS, CHARLES CORNWALLIS
• CORNWALLIS, SIR WILLIAM (1744-1819)

Cornwallis the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Guilford See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House, about 6 m . N.W. of the city, where there is now a Battle-Ground See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park of See also:

• LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo acres (including See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Wilfong); this park contains a Revolutionary museum, and twenty-nine monuments, including a Colonial See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

Column, an See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

arch (1906) in memory of Brig.-General See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis See also:

• NASH, RICHARD (1674-1762)

Nash (1720-1777), of North Carolina, who died in See also:

• OCTOBER

October r 7 7 7 of wounds received at See also:

• GERMANTOWN

Germantown, and See also:

• DAVIDSON, ANDREW BRUCE (1831–1902)
• DAVIDSON, JOHN (1857–1909)
• DAVIDSON, RANDALL THOMAS (1848– )
• DAVIDSON, SAMUEL (1807-1898)
• DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885)

Davidson Arch (1905), in honour of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• LEE
• LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
• LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
• LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
• LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
• LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
• LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
• LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
• LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
• LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
• LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
• LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
• LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
• LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)

Lee Davidson (1746-'781), a brigadier-general of North Carolina troops, who was killed at See also:

• CATAWBA

Catawba and in whose honour Davidson College, at Davidson, N.C., was named . Greensboro was founded and became the county-seat in 18o8, was organized as a See also:

• TOWN

town in 1829, and was first chartered as a city in 187o . ' One of the first cotton See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills in the South and probably the first in this state was established at Greensboro in 1832 . It closed about 20 years afterwards, and in 1889 new mills were built . Three very large mills were built in the See also:

• DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade after 1895, and three See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill villages, Proximity, Revolution and See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

Oak, named from these three mills, See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie immediately N. of the city; in 1908 their See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was estimated at 8000 . The owners of these mills maintain See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools for the See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children of operatives and See also:

• CAREY, HENRY (d. 1743)
• CAREY, HENRY CHARLES (1793-1879)
• CAREY, WILLIAM (1761-1834)

carey on " welfare See also:

• WORK

work " in these villages .