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GREENSBORO , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Guilford county, See also:North Carolina, U.S.A., about 8o m. N.W. of See also:Raleigh. Pop. (1890) 3317, (1900) 10,035, of whom 4086 were negroes; (1910 See also:census), 15,895. Greensboro is. served by several lines of the See also:Southern railway. It is situated in the See also:Piedmont region of the See also:state and has an excellent See also:climate. 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. See also:Charles F. See also:Deems was See also: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). Another school for negroes, Immanuel Lutheran College (Evangelical Lutheran, co-educational), was opened at See also: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), founded as " New See also:Garden Boarding School " in 1837 and re-chartered under its See also:present name in 1888. Greensboro has a See also:Carnegie library, St See also:Leo See also:hospital and a large auditorium. It is the See also:shipping-point for an agricultural, lumbering and trucking region, among whose products See also:Indian See also: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 See also:blue See also:denim), tobacco and cigars, See also:lumber, See also:furniture, See also:sash, doors and blinds, machinery, foundry products and terra-See also: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 owns and operates the See also:water-See also:works. Greensboro was named in See also:honour of See also:General See also:Nathanael See also:Greene, who on the 15th of See also:March 1781 fought with See also:Cornwallis the See also:battle of Guilford See also:Court See also:House, about 6 m. N.W. of the city, where there is now a Battle-Ground See also:Park of See also:loo acres (including See also: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
- 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 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 in 1829, and was first chartered as a city in 187o.
' One of the first cotton See also: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 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, named from these three mills, See also:lie immediately N. of the city; in 1908 their See also:population was estimated at 8000. The owners of these mills maintain See also:schools for the See also:children of operatives and See also:carey on " welfare See also:work " in these villages.
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