īlandwood Mansion, by Alexander Jackson Davis After the battle, Cornwallis withdrew his troops to a British coastal base in Wilmington. : 20 Although the Americans lost the battle, Greene's forces inflicted heavy casualties on the British Army of General Cornwallis. Īfter the Revolutionary War, the city of Greensboro was named for Major General Nathanael Greene, commander of the rebel American forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781. It soon became North Carolina's most important Quaker community and the mother of several other Quaker meetings established in the state and west of the Appalachians. The settlement grew rapidly over the next three years, adding members from as far away as Nantucket, Massachusetts. The action is recorded in the minutes of the Perquimans and Little River Quarterly Meeting on May 25, 1754: "To Friends at New Garden in Capefair", signed by Joseph Ratliff. Three years later, 40 Quaker families were granted approval to establish New Garden Monthly Meeting. The new settlers began organized religious services affiliated with the Cane Creek Friends Meeting in Snow Camp in 1751. Quaker migrants from Pennsylvania, by way of Maryland, arrived at Capefair (now Greensboro) in about 1750. : 7 Other indigenous cultures had occupied this area for thousands of years, typically settling along the waterways, as did the early settlers. See also: Timeline of Greensboro, North Carolina Early history Īt the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Greensboro were the Saura, a Siouan-speaking people. From 2015 to 2017 Greensboro hosted the National Folk Festival.
Annual events include the North Carolina Folk Festival, First Fridays in Downtown Greensboro, Fun Fourth of July Festival, North Carolina Comedy Festival and Winter Wonderlights. Sports teams in Greensboro include the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic Baseball League, the Carolina Dynamo of USL League Two, the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League, and the Greensboro Roller Derby.
The combined statistical area (CSA) of Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, commonly called the Piedmont Triad, had a population of 1,599,477.Īmong Greensboro's many notable attractions, some of the most popular are the Greensboro Science Center, the International Civil Rights Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Greensboro Symphony, the Greensboro Ballet, Triad Stage, the Wyndham Golf Championship, and the headquarters of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, which hosts various sporting events, concerts, and other events.
The 2010 population of the Greensboro–High Point metropolis was 723,801.
The region was separated into the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area and the Winston-Salem metropolitan area. In 2003, the previous Greensboro– Winston-Salem– High Point metropolitan statistical area was redefined by the U.S. The county courts were thus placed closer to the county's geographical center, a location more easily reached at the time by the majority of the county's citizens, who traveled by horse or on foot. In 1808, Greensborough (the spelling before 1895) was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. Three major interstate highways ( Interstate 40, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city. At the 2020 United States census, its population was 299,035. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina, the 69th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. Greensboro ( / ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr oʊ/ ( listen) formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.
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