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ID: 7014135
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014135
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Greensboro (inhabited place)  Greensboro (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 079 47 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -79.7833  decimal degrees

Note: Located in N central N Carolina; named for General N Greene, Revolutionary commander at nearby Battle of Guilford Courthouse (1781); birthplace of Dolly Madison, wife of president, & writer O. Henry; was site of violent anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in 1979.

Names:
Greensboro (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North Carolina (state)  ............  North Carolina (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Guilford (county)  ................  Guilford (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Greensboro (inhabited place)  ....................  Greensboro (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established in 1808 as county seat
city (C)
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  for foundries, chemicals & machine shops
manufacturing center (C)  ............  most importantly for textiles, also for cellophane products & terra-cotta works
trade center (C)  ............  is large wholesale distribution point & agricultural market
commercial center (C)  ............  headquarters for several insurance companies
educational center (C)  ............  for Guilford College (1834), Greensboro College, University of N Carolina branch & N Carolina Agricultural & Technical
capital (H)  ............  both of Confederacy & of N Carolina towards end of Civil War where in 1865 proposals were made for ending war

Sources and Contributors:
Greensboro..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 352-353
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 473
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37011907
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 466
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 352-353
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 473
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37011907
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 466
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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