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GREENSBORO , a city and the county-seat of Guilford county,See also: North Carolina, U.S.A., about 8o m
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N.W. of Raleigh
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Pop
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(1890) 3317, (1900) 10,035, of whom 4086 were negroes; (1910 census), 15,895
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Greensboro is. served by several lines of the See also: Southern railway
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It is situated in the Piedmont region of the See also: state and has an excellent See also: climate
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The city is the seat of the State Normal and See also: Industrial See also: College (1892) for girls; of the Greensboro See also: Female College (Methodist Episcopal, See also: South; chartered in 1838 and opened in 1846), of which the Rev
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See also: Charles F
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Deems was 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 College, andBennett College(MethodistEpiscopal,co-educational, 1873)
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Another school for negroes, Immanuel Lutheran College (Evangelical Lutheran, co-educational), was opened at Concord, N.C., in 1903, was removed to Greensboro in 1905, and in 1907 was established at Lutherville, E. of Greensboro
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About 6 m
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W. of Greensboro is Guilford College (co-educational; See also: Friends), founded as " New Garden Boarding School " in 1837 and re-chartered under its See also: present name in 1888
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Greensboro has a See also: Carnegie library, St See also: Leo hospital and a large auditorium
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It is the See also: shipping-point for an agricultural, lumbering and trucking region, among whose products See also: Indian corn, See also: tobacco and See also: cotton are especially important; is an important See also: insurance centre; has a large wholesale See also: trade; and has various manufactures, including cotton goods 1 (especially blue denim), tobacco and cigars, See also: lumber, furniture, See also: sash, doors and blinds, machinery, foundry products and terra-cotta
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The value of the factory products increased from $925,411 in 1900 to $1,828,837 in 1905, or 97.6%
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The See also: municipality owns and operates the See also: water-See also: works
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Greensboro was named in honour of General See also: Nathanael See also: Greene, who on the 15th of See also: March 1781 fought with Cornwallis the
See also: battle of Guilford See also: Court See also: House, about 6 m
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N.W. of the city, where there is now a Battle-Ground See also: Park of See also: loo acres (including Lake Wilfong); this park contains a Revolutionary museum, and twenty-nine monuments, including a Colonial See also: Column, an See also: arch (1906) in memory of Brig.-General See also: Francis See also: Nash (1720-1777), of North Carolina, who died in See also: October r 7 7 7 of wounds received at See also: Germantown, and See also: Davidson Arch (1905), in honour of See also: William
See also: Lee Davidson (1746-'781), a brigadier-general of North Carolina troops, who was killed at
See also: Catawba and in whose honour Davidson College, at Davidson, N.C., was named
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Greensboro was founded and became the county-seat in 18o8, was organized as a See also: town in 1829, and was first chartered as a city in 187o
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' One of the first cotton mills in the South and probably the first in this state was established at Greensboro in 1832
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It closed about 20 years afterwards, and in 1889 new mills were built
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Three very large mills were built in the See also: decade after 1895, and three See also: mill villages, Proximity, Revolution and
See also: White
See also: Oak, named from these three mills, lie immediately N. of the city; in 1908 their population was estimated at 8000
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The owners of these mills maintain See also: schools for the See also: children of operatives and carey on " welfare See also: work " in these villages
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