The New Student's Reference Work/Greensboro, N. C.

Greens′boro, N. C., the capital of Guilford County, northwestern North Carolina, 80 miles northwest of Raleigh, on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley and the Southern railroad. Considerable tobacco, corn, wheat, oats and fruit are raised in the vicinity, and there are some copper, iron and even gold found in the region. It also has blast furnaces for the manufacture of Bessemer steel, and has a number of brick, tile, terracotta and casting manufactories, cotton mills and several agricultural machine shops. It is the seat of the State Normal and Industrial College, Guilford College, Bennett College for colored youth and Greensboro College for girls. Population 15,895.