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Greensboro is a town located on the banks of the Choptank River in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,931 at the 2010 United States Census. The ZIP code is 21639. The primary phone exchange is 482 and the area code is 410. The town is served by Maryland Routes 480 and 313.
Joseph M. Bryan, businessman and philanthropist, lived in Greensboro until his death in 1995; Kathleen Price Bryan, philanthropist, was born and lived in Greensboro; Frances Webb Bumpass, newspaper publisher [15] Lamont Burns, NFL offensive lineman [16]
Tryon is a town in Polk County, on the southwestern border of North Carolina, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,562. [4] Located in the escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, today the area is affluent [5] and a center for outdoor pursuits, equestrian activity, and fine arts.
Adams-Edwards House is a historic home located near Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The original section of the house was built about 1850, and is a single-story, single-pile, side-gabled house with Greek Revival-style design elements. It has a centered front gable, a 3/4-width hip-roofed front porch, and a one-story gabled rear ell.
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The now three simultaneously running highways (US 29, US 220, and I-40) go around southern Greensboro before US 29/US 220 splits from I-40 going north around eastern Greensboro as a controlled-access highway named O. Henry Boulevard. As US 29/US 220 intersects Wendover Avenue, US 220 splits from US 29 going west.
Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), the original Siamese twins who performed for audiences in Asia, Europe, and North America before settling in the mountains of North Carolina and marrying two local sisters ; Orson Scott Card (born 1951), lecturer and author of the award-winning science fiction book Ender's Game (Greensboro)
Seven Hearths is a historic plantation house located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800 for Marvel (Marville) Mills - assumed built by his father Major William Mills, [2] and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It has exterior gable end double shouldered chimneys and flanking one bay wide, one ...