Greensboro, NC news and local guide

The Battle of Guilford Court House was fought nearby on March 15, 1781. The Americans lost, but General Nathanael Greene's forces inflicted heavy casualties on Cornwallis's army, which then withdrew to Wilmington. The town named for Greene was laid out near the center of Guilford County on forest land bought for $98, with three north-south streets crossing three east-west streets and the courthouse at Elm and Market. It had 369 people in 1821. In the early 1840s, at the request of Governor John Motley Morehead, whose house Blandwood was in town, the state routed a new railroad through Greensboro. It became known as the Gate City, a transportation hub for the Piedmont, and textile mills and mill villages grew up around it. Blandwood, a farmhouse of 1795 enlarged in 1846 to designs by Alexander Jackson Davis, survives. On February 1, 1960, four Black college students sat down at the whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's and refused to leave when they were denied service. They showed receipts for items bought elsewhere in the store and asked why their money was not good at the counter. Hundreds joined them, the sit-in lasted for months, and such protests soon spread across the South. Sources Wikipedia: Greensboro, North Carolina