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We would like to provide the residents of  Greensboro  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Greensboro Home page. The Greensboro Home page provides as much information as possible on Greensboro. Knowing Greensboro’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Greensboro’s Home page, you will also find Greensboro’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Greensboro has a population of 2956. 41.7% of Greensboro’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.3 are female. 20.2% of Greensboro is married and 49.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $78,206, and the average rent is $612. Household median income in Greensboro is $22,132, and the individual median income is $13,087. Greensboro’s Ethnic is the following: Black(77.1%), White(22.2%), Other(0.5%), Hispanic(0.2%), Multiple(0.2%).


Greensboro was incorporated as a town in December 1823 as "Greensborough". It was named in honor of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The name was soon simplified to "Greensboro". The community was known as "Troy" prior to incorporation.Reflecting the history of the antebellum years and a culture built on cotton plantations to produce the commodity crop, several sites on the National Register of Historic Places in or near Greensboro are connected to this past.


These include Glencairn, the Greensboro Historic District, Magnolia Grove, the McGehee-Stringfellow House, Millwood, and the Payne House.One hundred years later, African Americans in Greensboro were among those in the state continuing to work to regain their civil rights after years of second-class status under Jim Crow.


Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, came here in the course of his civil rights projects in the state. In 1968, he hid from Ku Klux Klan members in what is now operated as the Safe House Black Historic Museum.


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