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Greensboro, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Hale. Associated ZIP codes: 36744.
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Greensboro is in Hale County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Greensboro, the seat of Hale County, was known as Troy before it was incorporated as Greensborough in December 1823, named for Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene; the spelling was soon shortened. Greensboro Presbyterian Church was organized that same year by the Reverend James Hillhouse of South Carolina, with two Revolutionary War veterans as its founding elders. Its first wooden church was replaced in brick in 1841, and the present building, with its old slave gallery, went up in 1859.
Cotton plantations built on enslaved labor made Greensboro wealthy, and several National Register sites in and around town, among them Glencairn, Magnolia Grove, Millwood and the Greensboro Historic District, recall that era. In 1856 the Methodist Church founded Southern University here; it weathered the Civil War and Reconstruction and in 1918 moved to Birmingham, where it merged with Birmingham College to form Birmingham-Southern College. A century after the war, Black residents of Greensboro were part of the movement to win back their civil rights. In 1968, after speaking in Greensboro, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hid from Ku Klux Klan members in the home of the Burroughs family, now the Safe House Black History Museum. A violent tornado struck the city on May 27, 1973. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Greensboro Presbyterian Church; Southern University (Alabama Historical Association) Wikipedia: Greensboro, Alabama
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