The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1808 – Town of Greensboro established in Guilford County.[1]
- 1824 – First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro founded.
- 1826 – Patriot newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1827 – Buffalo Presbyterian Church built.
- 1834 – Guilford College chartered.[3]
- 1873 – Bennett College founded.[3]
- 1877 – Chamber of Commerce[4] and Green Hill Cemetery[5] established.
- 1884 – Population: 5,538.[6]
- 1889 – Coney Club founded.[1]
- 1890 – Daily Record newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1891
- State Normal and Industrial School established.[7]
- Julius I. Foust Building constructed.
- 1895 – Greensboro Industrial and Immigration Association founded.[4]
- 1900 – Population: 10,035.[3]
20th century
- 1902 – Palmer Memorial Institute founded in nearby Sedalia.[3]
- 1905 – City Board of Health established.[4]
- 1906
- 1909
- 1917 – Guilford Courthouse National Military Park established.
- 1918 – Maplewood Cemetery established.[5]
- 1920 – Population: 19,861.[3]
- 1922 - United Way of Greater Greensboro is founded under the original name "Greensboro Community Chest".
- 1924 – Greensboro Historical Museum established.[10]
- 1926
- World War Memorial Stadium dedicated.
- WBIG radio begins broadcasting.[11]
- 1927 – Lindley Field (airfield) established.[7]
- 1928 – Forest Lawn Cemetery established.[5]
- 1931 – Paramount Theatre opens.[12]
- 1936 – April: 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak.
- 1940 – Population: 59,319.[3]
- 1949
- 1950 – Population: 74,389.[3]
- 1955 - The Greensboro Six
- 1957 – June: Simkins v. City of Greensboro decided.
- 1959 – Greensboro Coliseum opens.
- 1960
- Greensboro sit-ins for civil rights occur.[7][15]
- Population: 119,574.[16]
- 1967
- 1968 – Family Life Council[19] and Greensboro Beautiful nonprofit established.
- 1969
- Jack Elam becomes mayor.[20]
- May: 1969 Greensboro uprising.
- 1970
- Circle Drive-In cinema in business.[12]
- Population: 144,076.[16]
- 1971 - Jim Melvin becomes mayor.[21]
- 1979
- November 3: Greensboro massacre.[7]
- Greensboro Hornets baseball team active.
- 1980 – Guilford County Historic Preservation Commission established.[10]
- 1981
- Aggie Stadium opens.
- John Forbis becomes mayor.[21]
- 1982 – Airport new terminal built.[22]
- 1984 – News & Record newspaper in publication.[2]
- 1987 – June: Ku Klux Klan march and opposing protest.[23][24]
- 1990 - Population: 183,521.[16]
- 1993 - Carolyn Allen becomes the first female mayor of Greensboro.[21]
- 1997 – City website online (approximate date).[25]
- 1999 - Keith Holliday becomes mayor.[21]
21st century
- 2005 – NewBridge Bank Park (stadium) opens.
- 2007 - Yvonne Johnson becomes first African-American in city elected mayor.
- 2009 - Bill Knight becomes mayor.[26]
- 2010
- International Civil Rights Center and Museum opens.
- Population: 269,666.[27]
- 2011 - Robbie Perkins becomes mayor.[21]
- 2013 – Nancy Vaughan becomes mayor.[21]
- 2014 – Jim Westmoreland becomes city manager.[28]
- 2015 – Mark Walker becomes U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district.[29]
See also
- Greensboro history
- List of mayors of Greensboro, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Guilford County, North Carolina
- Timelines of other cities in North Carolina: Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Raleigh, Wilmington, Winston-Salem
References
- 1 2 Federal Writers’ Project 1939.
- 1 2 3 4 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hill 1955.
- 1 2 3 4 Kipp 1977.
- 1 2 3 "Cemeteries". City of Greensboro. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Directory 1884.
- 1 2 3 4 North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. "(Greensboro)". This Day in North Carolina History. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ American Library Annual, 1917–1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
- ↑ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Greensboro, North Carolina". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- 1 2 American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0759100020.
- ↑ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: North Carolina", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Greensboro, North Carolina". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: North Carolina", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
- ↑ "Greensboro, North Carolina". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Robert L. Harris Jr.; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (2013). "Chronology". Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51087-5.
- 1 2 3 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ Pluralism Project. "Greensboro, North Carolina". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ "African American newspapers in North Carolina". Research Guides for North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ C. Daniel Fisher (1982). "Community Based Family Life Education: The Family Life Council of Greater Greensboro, Inc". Family Relations. National Council on Family Relations. 31 (2): 179–183. doi:10.2307/584395. JSTOR 584395.
- ↑ Barron, Richard (26 July 2018). "Late Greensboro Mayor Jack Elam served during a tumultuous period". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Queram, Kate Elizabeth (12 May 2015). "Former, and current Greensboro mayors discuss city's future". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
- ↑ Fripp 1997.
- ↑ "Anti-Klan Protesters March Through Downtown Greensboro", Associated Press News, June 6, 1987
- ↑ "Klan's Carolina March Kindling Fear and Unity", New York Times, June 5, 1987
- ↑ "City of Greensboro, North Carolina". Archived from the original on 1997-04-12 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Ex-mayor Bill Knight to seek Greensboro council seat". Greensboro News and Record. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
- ↑ "Greensboro (city), North Carolina". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on May 5, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ "City Government". City of Greensboro. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
Works cited
- Directory of Greensboro, Salem, and Winston. Atlanta, Georgia: Interstate Directory Company. 1884 – via Open Library and University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, Digital Collections, Greensboro City Directories, 1884–1963. At Archive.org.
- James W. Albright, ed. (1904). Greensboro, 1808–1904 facts, figures, traditions and reminiscences. Genealogy & local history ;LH83. Greensboro, N.C.: J.J. Stone – via HathiTrust.
- Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Greensboro". North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 203+ – via Open Library.
- Ethel Stephens Arnett. 1955. Greensboro, North Carolina, the county seat of Guilford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Hill's Greensboro (Guilford County, N.C.) City Directory. Richmond, Virginia: Hill Directory Co. 1955.
- Samuel M. Kipp III (1977). "Old Notables and Newcomers: The Economic and Political Elite of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1880–1920". The Journal of Southern History. 43 (3): 373–394. doi:10.2307/2207647. JSTOR 2207647.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Greensboro, North Carolina", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M – via Internet Archive (fulltext)
- Gayle Hicks Fripp (1997). "Brief History of Greensboro". City of Greensboro. Archived from the original on 2010-11-21.
- Otis L. Hairston Jr. (2003). Greensboro, North Carolina. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
- Howard E. Covington. 2008. Once upon a city: Greensboro, North Carolina's second century. Greensboro, N.C.: Greensboro Historical Museum, Inc.
- Helen Snow and Tim Cole (2011), "Greensboro", in William S. Powell (ed.), Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press
- Raj Chetty; Nathaniel Hendren (2015), City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood, Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, archived from the original on 2015-05-06,
Rank #98: Greensboro, North Carolina
External links
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- Greensboro Public Library. "North Carolina Collection". City of Greensboro.
- "Local and Regional History Collections". Digital Collections. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries.
- Items related to Greensboro, North Carolina, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
- Humanities and Social Sciences Division. "Resources for Local History and Genealogy by State: North Carolina". Bibliographies and Guides. Washington DC: Library of Congress.
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