GREENSBORO, a city in the Piedmont section of North Carolina, U.S.A., 8om. N.W. of Raleigh ; the county seat of Guil ford county. It is on Federal highways 7o and 17o ; is served by the Atlantic and Yadkin and the Southern railways; and has a municipal airport. The population was 19,861 in 1920 negroes) and it increased to 53,569 in 193o by the Federal census. It has a large wholesale trade, is an important insurance centre. and has numerous and varied manufacturing industries, with an output in 1927 valued at $47,500,000. The cotton mills, which make chiefly blue denim, had in 1928 over 7,800 looms and 210,000 spindles. The city has fine public buildings, a Memorial stadium seating 10,00o, and a park system which provides an acre to each 5o inhabitants. The assessed valuation of property in 1928 was $103,000,000, and bank clearings amounted to $312,500,000. Greensboro is one of the chief educational centres of the State. In the city are the Greensboro college for women (Methodist Episcopal South; chartered 1838) and the North Carolina college for women (1892). Six miles west is Guilford college, founded in 1837 by the Society of Friends, and 17m. east is Elon college (Christian), chartered in 5889. Greensboro was founded in 1808, in the exact centre of the county, to be the new county seat, in place of Martinsville, where the battle of Guilford Court House was fought on March 15, 1781, and was named after General Nathanael Greene, hero of the battle. The battlefield, 6m. N.W.
of the city, has been made a national park. The town was organ ized in 1829 and chartered as a city in 187o. Since 1923 it has had a commission-manager form of government.