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In 1994, an organization of families in Greensboro, North Carolina sought to establish a school for their children that would teach from a Christian stance. The name "Caldwell Academy" was derived from the life of David Caldwell, a Greensboro native who operated in the late-18th and early-19th century. [5]
Greensboro (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ə r oʊ / ⓘ; [5] locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [6]
Four Seasons Town Centre is a three-story shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina.Opened in 1974, it was the first enclosed shopping center in Greensboro. Currently it is anchored by Dillard's and JCPenney and it is the only indoor shopping mall within Greensboro's city limits; however, nearby Friendly Center, an outdoor shopping plaza, has many of the same tenants.
The former Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C., (pictured) is on the National Register of Historic Places for being the site in 1960 of some of the first civil rights lunch-counter sit-in protests ...
Thomas Gilbert Pearson (1873–1943), was an American conservationist and one of the first faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was a founder of the National Association of Audubon Societies, which became the National Audubon Society. He was also a founder of the International Committee for Bird Protection. [1]
Two years later they established Southern Finishing & Warehouse Company in Greensboro, North Carolina. [1] In 1895 the Cone brothers began creating their own textile mills for the production of denim. [2] That year they built Proximity Cotton Mills in Greensboro, with Caesar Cone serving as the Proximity Manufacturing Company's president.
Replacements, Ltd., based in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the world's largest retailer of china, crystal and silverware, including both patterns still available from manufactures and discontinued patterns. The company, which began in 1981, had an inventory in 2011 of 14 million items from more than 340,000 patterns, with annual sales of $80 ...
Market America was founded in 1992 by former Amway distributor James Howard Ridinger and his wife Loren Ridinger. [3] [4] The company is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina and employed over 800 employees as of 2016. [1]