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1771
*       Guilford County created from Orange and Rowan counties
1808
*       Ralph Gorrell sells county commissioners 42 acres of land for $98
*       General Assembly passes act naming Greensborough as Guilford County’s new county seat
*       Greensborough first hosts county court sessions
1810
*       Legislative charter written for Greensborough
*       U.S. Census reports 11,420 residents: 9,850 free whites; 1,467 enslaved people of color; 103 free people of color
*       Greensborough Male Academy founded
1817
*       Freedman Benjamin Benson, kidnapped by a slave trader, sues for his freedom in Superior Court; he wins his case in 1820
1819
*       Sol, a slave, and Quaker Vestal Coffin help slave John Dimrey escape from his owner
1820
*       U.S. Census reports 14,511 residents: 12,692 free whites; 1,611 enslaved people of color; 208 free people of color
1821
*       Quakers open a school for African Americans, which closes after opposition by slaveowners
*       Greensborough Female Academy founded
*       Masonic Lodge No. 76 established
1822
*       Muirs Chapel United Methodist Church founded
1824
*       First Presbyterian Church founded
*       Minister, physician and educator David Caldwell dies
1826
*       Greensborough Patriot begins publication
1828
*       Entrepreneur Henry Humphreys opens Mt. Hecla Cotton Mill, a steam-powered textile mill with 75 looms, the first in the state
1829
*       First town census counts 369 people and values town’s real estate and property at $53,495
*       Greensborough Guards organized, reorganized as Guilford Grays in 1860
1830
*       U.S. Census reports 19,737 residents: 15,761 free whites; 2,594 enslaved people of color; 382 free people of color
*       Minister Peter Doub establishes Methodist congregation now known as W. Market St United Methodist Church, build’s town’s first church building the next year
*       Greensboro Female Benevolent Society raises funds to build Presbyterian church building
*       Traveling circus charges 25 cents admission to see elephants and tigers
1833
*       Great meteor shower observed
1837
*       Town incorporates and includes one square mile
*       Quakers open New Garden Boarding School, which becomes Guilford College in 1888
1838
*       Greensborough Female College (Greensboro College), founded by Methodists, receives charter

1840
*       U.S. Census reports 19,175 residents: 15,891 free whites; 2,647 enslaved people of color; 637 free people of color
*       Town officials pay Gill, an African American, last name unknown, $34 to plant elm trees along North and South streets, now called North and South Elm
*       Edgeworth Female Seminary founded

1841
*       First public school sessions

1841-1845
*       Resident John Motley Morehead serves as governor

1843
*       Health committee formed after yellow fever epidemic
*       Manufacture of cigars, snuff, and plug tobacco begins

1845
*       Greensborough Female College Main Building completed

1846
*       B.G. Worth advertises daguerreotype portraits

1847
*       Troy-Bumpass House

1848
*       Portrait painter sets up studio at Gott’s Hotel

1849
*       Greensboro Volunteer Fire Company organized after town’s first major fire
*       Buena Vista Lodge No. 21 Independent Order of Odd Fellows organized

1850
*       U.S. Census reports 19,754 residents: 15,874 free whites; 3,186 enslaved people of color; 694 free people of color
*       Greensborough Mutual Fire Insurance established

1851
*       Groundbreaking for North Carolina Railroad

1852
*       Calvin Wiley becomes first state superintendent of schools
*       Frances Webb Bumpass began publishing a Methodist newspaper called Weekly Message

1854
*       Porter’s Drug Store opens on Elm St.

1856
*       First train arrives in Greensborough

1857
*       Two-foot snowfall observed

1859
*       Wesleyan minister Daniel Worth imprisoned in city jail for anti-slavery activities
*       First YMCA founded
*       Greensborough College for Women charges $20 tuition per semester
*       First Baptist Church organized

1860
*       U.S. Census reports residents: 15,738 free whites; 3,186 enslaved people of color; 693 free people of color

1861
*       Greensboro and Guilford residents vote against a referendum for a secession convention on Feb. 28
*       North Carolina secedes from the Union on May 20
*       Alexander Eckel becomes first elected mayor
*       Local companies, nicknamed the Guilford Grays and Dixie Boys, leave Greensboro for service in Confederate Army
*       Sterling, Campbell & Albright Co. begins publishing school textbooks for Confederate school systems

1862
*       Future short story author William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) born September 11

1863
*       Rail line linking Greensboro to Danville, VA completed, improving the Confederate government’s ability to ship supplies south
*       Greensborough Female College Main Building burns

1865
*       Confederate soldiers wounded at the Battle of Bentonville sent by train to Greensboro for medical care
*       Confederate President Jefferson Davis here during retreat from Richmond

1866
*       Providence Baptist Church founded
*       St. Matthews Methodist Church founded
*       Ladies Memorial Association founded with goal of burying war dead

1867
*       St. James Presbyterian Church founded
*       Philadelphia Quaker Yardley Warner purchases land for sale to newly-freed African Americans, creating a community later known as Warnersville

1869
*       Sergeant Mfg. established
*       Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church organized
*       St. Barnabas Episcopal Church organized
*       Total solar eclipse

1870
*       Greensboro chartered as a city

1871
*       J.W. Scott Co established
*       Benbow Hotel opens

1872
*       Downtown fire destroys Guilford County Courthouse
*       William P. Hughes opens photography studio with Lewis
*       W. Andrews in County Courthouse
*       Odell Hardware established
*       New North State newspaper endorses Ulysses S. Grant for president

1873
*       Tobacco Board of Trade established to regulate business
*       Northwestern Railroad tracks completed west to Salem
*       Bennett Seminary (Bennett College for Women) chartered as coeducational school to train teachers
*       Glascock Stove and Manufacturing Co. established

1874
*       Fire department reorganized

1875
*       Public schools, segregated by race, open
*       Elm Street renovations include a new gravel surface, brick sidewalks and kerosene lamps

1877
*       Chamber of Commerce established, incorporated in 1888
*       St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church built

1878
*       Mt. Tabor United Methodist Church organized
*       YMCA reorganized
*       Frances Bumpass helps organize Women’s Foreign Mission Society of Methodist Church

1880
*       First telephones installed
*       New gas street lights
*       Local tax supplement funds 120 days of public school instruction

1882
*       Green Hill Cemetery opens
*       Poplar Grove AME Church established
*       Persimmon Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church organized

1883
*       State’s first chapter of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union established here
*       Bennett Seminary founds YMCA branch

1884
*       First telephone exchange opens

1885
*       City has 50 retail stores
*       Benbow Hotel hosts fruit and flower show
*       Mt. Zion Methodist Episcopal Church founded

1886
*       Harmon Unthank joins board of directors for People’s Five Cent Savings Bank, a first for African Americans in the South
*       Lindsay Street School opens
*       Florence Garrett speaks at a WCTU meeting, becoming first black woman in North Carolina to address a public meeting of white women
*       Charleston earthquake damages Greensboro buildings

1887
*       City passes first bond issue for $100,000. Bond funds support installation of new water system and lines for electricity downtown
*       Guilford Battleground Company incorporated
*       Westminster Presbyterian Church founded

1888
*       Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway completes line from Greensboro to Mt. Airy
*       New Goshen United Methodist Church founded
*       Fire destroys early town records

1889
*       John M. Dick Steam Laundry established
*       Euterpe Club, oldest music club in the South, formed

1890
*       First residential areas receive electric lines
*       Greensboro Daily Record begins publication
*       L. Richardson Drug Co. established

1891
*       City limits expand to four square miles
*       Greensboro voters approve financial incentives for NC A&T State University and UNCG
*       Volunteer Southside Hose Company organized
*       Newspaper editors coin the nickname The Gate City, referring to city’s many railroad lines
*       First hospital, King’s Daughters, opens, (closes 1893)
*       Hotel Clegg opens on S. Elm St.
*       Keeley Institute established to treat substance abuse
*       Shiloh Baptist Church founded
*       Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded
*       Grace United Methodist Church founded
*       First Friends Meeting founded
*       Cones built Southern Finishing & Warehouse Co.
*       First mule-drawn streetcar operates on Elm St.
*       Shiloh Baptist Church founded

1892
*       Simon Schiffman purchases jewelry store
*       New Cedar Grove Baptist Church organized

1894
*       Lunsford Richardson introduces Vick’s VapoRub
*       NCA&T student newspaper begins publication

1895
*       Proximity Mills established
*       Brooks Lumber Co. established
*       Greensboro Industrial & Immigration Association founded to promote economic development

1896
*       Liberty Bell stops in Greensboro during national tour
*       Proximity School opens

1897
*       McDuffie-Eubanks Drug Store opens
*       Grace Lutheran Memorial Church founded
*       Eller Memorial Baptist Church founded
*       New Zion Missionary Baptist founded
*       Proximity United Methodist Church founded

1898
*       Revolution Mill opened
*       C.C. Fordham’s Drug Store built on S. Elm Street
*       Educator Booker T. Washington speaks at NC A&T
*       Woodmen of the World, Camp No. 13 founded

1899
*       Greensboro Police Dept. founded
*       Southern Railroad Depot opens on S. Elm Street
*       Wysong & Miles Co. established
*       Belk Department Store opens on S. Elm St.
*       Art Shop established
*       Typhoid epidemic kills 14 at UNCG, school closes temporarily
*       Friendly Ave. Baptist Church founded

1900
*       Greensboro Agricultural Fair begins
*       Guilford Hotel opens
*       African American photographer Harris Hogan opens studio
*       Elks Lodge No. 602 founded
*       Greensboro Ice & Coal Company established
*       Aycock neighborhood
*       Mt. Zion Baptist Church founded
*       College Place United Methodist founded
*       Congregational United Church of Christ founded

1901
*       Greensboro Life Insurance Company formed
*       Young Men’s Business Association created
*       Guilford Battle Chapter DAR founded

1902
*       Lucy Robertson becomes first female president of Greensboro College
*       Public library opens in city hall
*       Pioneer Building & Loan launched to serve black residents
*       Dixie Building completed
*       Greensboro Electric Co. inaugurates electric streetcar line and opens Lindley Park
*       Greensboro Coca Cola Bottling Co. opens franchise
*       First professional baseball team organized
*       Guilford Battle Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution organized
*       Gate City Motor Company founded
*       Southside Hardware opens
*       Union Memorial United Methodist Church organized
*       International Typographical Union organized
*       Peace United Church of Christ founded

1903
*       A.W. McAlister founds Pilot Life Insurance Company
*       Children’s Home Society of NC founded
*       50 manufacturing companies make 30 different types of goods
*       Ellis, Stone & Co. opens store
*       Scott Seed Co. opens
*       South Greensboro Business Men’s Association founded
*       YWCA organized
*       St. Paul United Methodist Church founded
*       Guilford County Medical Society established
*       First Labor Day celebration features downtown parade

1904
*       Dixie Building opens on S. Elm St.
*       S. H. Kress Store opens at 312 S. Elm St.
*       Revolution School opens
*       Roundtrip train fare to St. Louis World’s Fair costs $17
*       Knights of Columbus founded
*       Plumbers and Steamfitters Union organized
*       Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen organized
*       Pomona Baptist Church founded

1905
*       White Oak Mill opens
*       Imanuel Lutheran College moves here, operates until 1961
*       Sidney Alderman & William Eutsler open photographic studio
*       E.F. Craven Company founded
*       Meyer’s Department Store opens
*       Robt. A. Sills Co. shoe store opens on S. Elm St.
*       Wills Book Store opens
*       International Association of Machinists organized
*       White Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church founded
*       Palm St. Christian Church founded
*       McAdoo Heights neighborhood

1906
*       Carnegie Public Library opens
*       New Zion Baptist Church founded
*       Presbyterian Church of the Covenant founded
*       Clifton Road Baptist Church founded
*       College Park Baptist Church founded
*       Episcopal Church of the Redeemer founded
*       St. Leo’s Hospital opens

1907
*       Jefferson Standard Life Insurance incorporated
*       First Evangelical Lutheran Church founded
*       Art Club sponsors public art exhibit at Public Library
*       Crystal Theatre opens to show moving pictures
*       First Lutheran Church founded
*       Northside Baptist Church founded
*       Sixteenth Street Baptist Church founded
*       White Oak neighborhood
*       White Oak School opens
*       Eastside Park neighborhood
*       Egg-size hail destroys crops

1908
*       Greensboro celebrates Centennial
*       Hippodrome, with seating for 20,000, erected
*       Merchant Association organized
*       A.W. McAlister opens pitch and putt golf course on Summit Ave.
*       First Lutheran Church of Greensboro chartered
*       Temple Emanuel founded
*       First Moravian Church founded
*       Laughlin Memorial United Methodist Church founded
*       Journalist Edward R. Murrow born in southern Guilford County

1909
*       Greensboro Daily News begins publication
*       Boy Scout Troop 1 organized
*       Lyric Theatre opens
*       Greensboro Woman’s Club founded
*       Local educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown founds N.C. Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs
*       Glenwood neighborhood
*       Episcopal Church of the Redeemer organized
*       Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church founded

1911
*       City adopts at-large voting system for City Council
*       Greensboro Country Club incorporated
*       Greensboro becomes first city to receive official piece of air mail sent in the United States
*       Laughlin Memorial United Methodist Church founded
*       Irving Park neighborhood
*       Hebrew Cemetery founded
*       Town of Hamilton Lakes

1912
*       Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company merges with Security Life and Greensboro Life insurance companies, moves headquarters here
*       Proximity Print Works established
*       St. Stephen United Church of Christ founded
*       Banner Building opens
*       Curry School parents organize Mothers’ Club, forerunner of PTSA

1913
*       St. James Baptist Church organized

1914
*       Fire department receives first motorized fire truck
*       Home Federal Savings & Loan established
*       George C. Brown Co. opens for business
*       Glenwood Presbyterian Church founded
*       Guilford Baptist Church founded
*       Greensboro Woman’s Club lobbies for cleaner grocery stores

1915
*       Piedmont Theatre opens
*       Hinshaw Memorial United Methodist Church founded
*       Greensboro YWCA starts Travelers Aid Society
*       N.Y. Herald describes Cone Mill villages as utopias

1916
*       Clendenin, Wrenn & Kirkman Realtors established
*       Banks offer 4% interest on savings accounts

1917
*       Ford Body Co. established
*       Greensboro Rotary Club organized
*       American Red Cross chapter: with 193 charter members, created 16 committees for projects such as soldier comfort bags, layettes, made hospital gowns and dressings, and hosted 166,000+ servicemen at canteens near railroad station
*       UNCG Farmerettes can 8000 gallons of produce
*       First Christian Church founded

1918
*       Greensboro reports 1200 cases of Spanish influenza
*       Moose Lodge No. 685 holds first meeting
*       Brotherhood of Painters Decorators, & Paperhangers organized
*       Bricklayers and Masons union organized
*       Boy Scout Council organized
*       Oak Grove A.M.E. Zion Church founded
*       East White Oak Missionary Baptist Church founded

1919
*       O. Henry Hotel opens on N. Greene St.
*       Greensboro Patriots professional baseball team organized
*       Henry Burtner Post #53 American Legion organized
*       Greensboro Business & Professional Women’s Club founded
*       Greensboro Section, National Council of Jewish Women founded
*       Carolina Steel established
*       Hanes-Lineberry Funeral Service founded
*       East White Oak Baptist Church organized
*       Westerwood neighborhood developed
*       The Business & Professional Women’s Club founded
*       Kiwanis Club organized
*       International Alliance of Theatrical Employees and Moving
*       Picture Machine Operators union organized

1920
*       Dedication of county courthouse

1921
*       Greensboro Civitans Club founded
*       Mt. Pleasant Christian Church founded
*       Lindsay St. School PTA opens first school cafeteria in the state
*       National Theatre opens

1922
*       World War Memorial Stadium built in honor of war dead
*       First electric Stop-Go sign set for installation
*       Greensboro Lions Club holds first meeting
*       Operative Plasterers & Cement Finishers Union organized
*       Wood, Wire, & Metal Lathers Union organized
*       United Way organized
*       Greensboro Girl Scouts organized
*       Laughlin Memorial United Methodist Church founded

1923
*       City limits expand to 17.84 square miles, includes mill villages
*       Attorney Louise Alexander becomes first woman to join police force
*       Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Building opens
*       Guilford College Art Appreciation Club founded
*       Mt. Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded

1924
*       Pilot Life Insurance Co. established
*       Greensboro Historical Museum founded
*       Carnegie Negro Library opens on Bennett College campus
*       O. Henry Study Club founded
*       Straughan’s Bookshop opens
*       Sunset Hills neighborhood developed
*       College Park neighborhood developed

1925
*       Temple Emanuel dedicated in Fisher Park
*       Nocho neighborhood developed
*       Bessemer Methodist Episcopal Church founded
*       Latham Park neighborhood developed
*       International Printing Pressmen organized
*       Colonial Dames founded
*       East White Oak YMCA founded
*       Guilford Building opens

1926
*       Greensboro Public Library launches first bookmobile in South
*       Bennett becomes a woman-only college
*       Charity League (Junior League of Greensboro) organized
*       Blumenthal’s opens
*       First radio station, WBIG (We Believe in Greensboro) signs on air
*       Mock, Judson Voehringer Co. begins operation
*       American Federation of Musicians organized
*       Fire department becomes all-paid force; Central Fire Station opens on N. Greene St.

1927
*       King Cotton Hotel and Carolina Theatre open
*       War Memorial Stadium dedicated
*       Lindley Field selected as regional airport site
*       Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh pilots The Spirit of St. Louis to town, appears at War Memorial Stadium
*       Southern Railway Depot opens on W. Washington St.
*       Carolinas Junior Golf Tournament begins
*       L. Richardson Hospital opens to serve African American patients at S. Benbow Rd. location
*       Greensboro establishes juvenile court
*       W. H. Sullivan Co. founded
*       Sedgefield Inn completed
*       Greensboro Men’s Club founded
*       Civic Music Association founded
*       Church of God in Christ founded
*       YMCA opens on West Market St.

1928
*       Electric streetcar route added on Battleground and Freeman Mill Rd.
*       Mary Nicholson becomes first N.C. woman to earn pilot’s license
*       Carolina Theatre shows its first talking picture
*       Nocho Park neighborhood
*       Bessemer neighborhood
*       Kirkwood neighborhood
*       Lake Daniel neighborhood
*       Altrusa Club founded
*       International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers organized
*       Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees organized
*       James B. Dudley High School opens
*       St. Mary’s Catholic Church founded
*       First Presbyterian Church moves to Fisher Park location

1929
*       Electric streetcar route added to 16th St., Walker Ave., Gorrell St., and Irving Park
*       Wells Temple Holiness Church founded
*       Little Gate Garden Club founded
*       P.E.O. Sisterhood, Chapter A organized
*       Greensboro Bar Association established
*       Greensboro Senior High School (Grimsley) opens
*       Starmount Co. organized
*       Fisherman at Lake Brandt catches turtle weighing 32 lb. 5 oz.

1930
*       Starmount Country Club golf course opens
*       Greensboro Patriots gain first major league affiliation with St. Louis Cardinals, play first pro baseball game at War Memorial Stadium
*       Glenwood Friends Meeting founded
*       Greensboro Junior Woman’s Club chartered
*       Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter founded
*       St. Mark Holy Church founded
*       United Institutional Baptist Church founded

1931
*       Pla-Mor miniature golf opens on N. Elm St.
*       Poet Langston Hughes holds reading at Bennett College
*       National Guard stages first reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
*       22 farmers form local dairy cooperative later known as Guilford Dairy
*       Emancipation Day celebration includes downtown parade and pageant at Dudley High School
*       Aviatrix Amelia Earhart speaks here on “Women in Aviation”


1933
*       Greensboro branch of NAACP founded
*       United States Post Office, now Preyer Federal Building, opens

1934
*       Electric streetcar route added to White Oak, Glenwood, & Pomona
*       Electrically-powered trolley buses in use
*       Jefferson Standard Life Insurance purchases WBIG Radio
*       Guilford Industries of the Blind established
*       Exchange Club founded
*       Rachel Caldwell Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, founded
*       6,409 people reported on local emergency relief
*       Recreation Dept. weekly payroll totals $20

1935
*       Burlington Mills moves headquarters to Greensboro
*       Greensboro Patriots close operations until 1941
*       Ceasar Cone Elementary School opens
*       Greensboro Council for Protestants, Jews and Catholics founded

1936
*       Montgomery Ward Co. opens new S. Elm St. store
*       Greensboro Art Center, WPA project which served both races, established and operated until 1940
*       Greensboro Junior Chamber of Commerce, known as Jaycees, founded
*       Greensboro Chapter, National Conference of Christians & Jews established
*       Tornado hits E. Lee St. area, killing 13 and injuring 44

1937
*       Otto Zenke begins interior design firm
*       Boar & Castle Restaurant opens on W. Market St. extension
*       Dr. Eva Hamlin Miller joins Bennett College faculty as first art instructor
*       Bennett students boycott downtown theatres, protesting theatres’ practice of editing films to downplay the roles of black actors
*       City’s first supermarket, Big Star, opens on W. Washington St.
*       Windsor Center opens
*       Nocho Park opens
*       Lady Lions organized
*       Pilot Club chartered
*       Guilford Memorial Park cemetery opens

1938
*       Sam Snead wins first Greater Greensboro Open professional golf tournament
*       Building and Construction Trades Union organized
*       Salvation Army Boys Club organized
*       Tabernacle Baptist Church founded

1939
*       Greensboro Historical Museum and Greensboro Public Library open in Richardson Civic Center at 130 Summit Ave.
*       Public Library opens in Richardson Civic Center
*       Hayes-Taylor YMCA opens on E. Market St.
*       Reid Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church founded
*       Greensboro Symphony Orchestra founded
*       International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers organized
*       Piedmont Bird Club founded
*       Mary Lynn Richardson Park created

1940
*       Greensboro is headquarters to five insurance companies: Jefferson Standard, Pilot Life, Dixie Fire, Gate City Life, and Southern Dixie
*       Brightwood Baptist Church founded
*       Textile Workers Union of America local organized

1941
*       Gillespie Golf Course opens
*       Emmanuel Wesleyan Church founded
*       International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers organized
*       City Council of Garden Clubs founded
*       NCA&T awards first Master of Science degrees
*       Fire destroys Greensboro College Main Building

1942
*       Weatherspoon Museum founded
*       WGBG (We’re Going to Beat Germany) Radio signs on air
*       Greensboro chapter, Delta Sigma Theta sorority founded
*       Businesses dimmed lights from 9 pm – 7 am
*       City orders 13 electronic air raid sirens

1943
*       Army Air Force Basic Training Camp 10 opens

1944
*       George Preddy, ranked as America’s leading fighter pilot air ace, killed by friendly fire over Belgium
*       Citizens purchase $10 million war bonds to build frigate USS Greensboro
*       Red Cross volunteers prepare 51,000 surgical dressings
*       First black police officers hired
*       First women jurors in Superior Court criminal case
*       Serviceman, later Hollywood actor, Charlton Heston marries at Grace United Methodist Church

1945
*       Robert Wynn becomes first African American Agricultural Extension Agent in nation, serves until 1970
*       Greensboro Patriots join Class C Carolina League
*       Gate City Life Insurance merges with Pilot Life Insurance
*       Mother Murphy’s Laboratories established
*       Family Service of the Piedmont founded
*       Beta Nu Zeta Chapter, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority founded

1946
*       Parks & Recreation Commission established
*       Basic Training Camp #10, now known as Overseas Replacement Depot, closes
*       Guilford Mills opens with 6 machines
*       Bessemer Improvement Co. buys ORD properties
*       Immanuel Baptist Church founded
*       United Slate, Tile, and Composition Roofers, Damp & Waterproofers Worker’s Union organized
*       Sheet Metal Workers Union organized
*       Guy & Joseph Thomas Branch, Disabled American Veterans, founded
*       Greensboro Academy of Medicine established by black physicians
*       Guilford Hills neighborhood established

1947
*       Parks & Recreation begins youth baseball program
*       First downtown parking meters installed
*       Metropolitan Day Nursery founded by Metropolitan Council of Negro Women
*       Dormition of The Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church founded
*       Sears, Roebuck and Co. opens mail order warehouse
*       A&P opens grocery store at 221 Commerce Pl.
*       Historical Book Club of North Carolina founded
*       Susie B. Dudley YWCA organized
*       Beth David Synagogue groundbreaking
*       7.49 inches of rain recorded on Sept. 24

1948
*       185 polio cases reported; residents build polio hospital
*       Guilford Park Presbyterian Church founded
*       City named mail hub for U.S. Postal Service
*       Greensboro Opera Association founded
*       WCOG Radio signs on air
*       International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse Men and Helpers organized
*       International Printing Pressmen & Assistants’ Union organized
*       Westover Church founded

1949
*       WFMY-TV transmits first live television signal in NC
*       Julia Ballinger Dwiggins becomes first woman elected to City Council
*       Parks and Recreation Department launches first women’s basketball leagues
*       WGBG’s Curt Gill becomes first African American disc jockey in state
*       First NC All-Star high school football and basketball games held here
*       One-way traffic begins on principal downtown streets
*       Greensboro Tobacco Market established

1950
*       Nocho Park golf course opens
*       Fire Prevention Bureau established
*       Civil Defense program established
*       Greensboro Tar Heel Chorus founded
*       Cerebral Palsy School (now Gateway) opens
*       Friends of the Library founded
*       International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers organized
*       Communication Workers of America, Locals 3062 & 3607 organized
*       Parks & Recreation Dept. holds first Easter Egg Hunt
*       Greensboro Memorial Park opens
*       Lakeview Memorial Park opens

1951
*       Dr. William Hampton became first black elected to City Council
*       Old Rebel Children’s Show premieres on WFMY-TV
*       Greensboro Patriots become Chicago Cubs affiliate
*       J.P. Stevens & Co. opens headquarters on W. Market St.
*       City Council approves fluoridation of city water
*       Evangelist Billy Graham leads six-week crusade here
*       Greensboro Writers Club organized
*       Unitarian Church founded

1952
*       Koury Corp. founded
*       Parks & Recreation Dept. launches Sixty-Plus Club
*       First public housing units open
*       Police Department adds Vice Squad
*       Greensboro Woman’s Club sponsors first Fine Arts Festival
*       Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church dedicated
*       Starmount Presbyterian Church founded
*       Debutante Club of Greensboro founded

1953
*       Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital admits first patient
*       Atlantic Coast Conference established here
*       Guilford College acquires Greensboro Evening College and renames it Greensboro Division of Guilford College, now known as Continuing Education Program
*       CIO Textile Union splits, local unions affiliate with United Textile Workers of the AFL, with Locals 259, 739, and 290
*       Buffalo Presbyterian Church celebrates 200th anniversary
*       WFMY-TV launches “What’s Cooking Today” with Cordelia Kelly

1954
*       St. Leo’s Hospital becomes Notre Dame Catholic High School, which operates until 1968
*       Notre Dame admits African American students
*       WPET Radio signs on air
*       St. Francis Episcopal Church founded
*       Southern Foods founded
*       Temperatures reaches 106 degrees on July 14

1955
*       Lorillard opens major manufacturing plant in Greensboro
*       Six African American golfers arrested for playing at Gillespie Golf Course. Convicted of trespassing, later pardoned by Governor Luther Hodges
*       Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at New Garden Friends Meeting
*       City has 500+ active social and civic organizations
*       The Links founded
*       Approximately 12,300 of 61,175 employed people are organized for collective bargaining
*       Belk’s Department Store opens on South Elm Street
*       Woodmere Park neighborhood
*       City hires professional rainmaker in attempt to end drought; Hurricane Hazel does so instead

1956
*       Electric trolley cars end operation; diesel-powered bus service begins
*       Former White Oak YMCA becomes Cone Community Center
*       Greensboro Patriots play exhibition game against NY Yankees
*       Duke Power orders Jim Crow signs removed from Greensboro buses
*       Lorillard opens E. Market St. cigarette manufacturing plant
*       Christ United Methodist Church founded
*       Lawndale Baptist Church founded
*       Sedgefield Presbyterian Church founded

1957
*       City limits extended to more than 49 square miles
*       Natural Science Center opens as Greensboro Junior Museum
*       Parks & Recreation Dept. organizes Special Populations Unit
*       First black students enroll at Greensboro Senior High School (Grimsley) and Gillespie Park Elementary
*       Summit Rotary Club founded
*       Town of Hamilton Lakes annexed
*       The Good Morning Show premieres on WFMY-TV
*       Friendly Shopping Center opens

1958
*       Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at Bennett College
*       Greensboro’s professional baseball team affiliates with the NY Yankees and change name from Patriots to Yankees
*       Parkway Baptist Church founded
*       City celebrates Sesquicentennial
*       First Community Swim Meet held
*       Page High School opens
*       Actor Andy Griffith appears at Carolina Theatre

1959
*       Greensboro Coliseum Complex opens, first event is “Holiday On Ice”
*       NC’s first McDonald’s restaurant opens on Summit Ave.
*       Warnersville Recreation Center opens
*       American Federal Savings & Loan chartered, first federally chartered African American financial institution in NC, later known as Mutual Community Savings Bank (1992)
*       First basketball game at Coliseum features NC A&T versus Elizabeth State
*       St. John’s United Methodist Church founded

1960
*       Four NC A&T freshmen begin sit-in protest on Feb. 1 at Woolworth lunch counter, launching change across the South; local counters desegregate on July 25
*       Glenwood Recreation Center opens
*       Candidate Richard Nixon campaigns here for president
*       Direct dialing begins for long distance calls

1961
*       City Beautiful organized
*       Carlotta Supper Club opens
*       City hires first all-African American firefighter class
*       Wesley Long Hospital moves to N. Elam Ave.

1962
*       Eastern Music Festival founded
*       WEAL and WQMG Radio begin broadcasts
*       Town of Guilford College annexed

1963
*       Civil rights protests, including sit-ins, picketing and marches, against segregation lead to hundreds of arrests
*       Camp Joy offers summer day camp for special needs youth
*       Volunteer Center of Greensboro founded
*       Carnegie Negro Library becomes Southeast Branch (today’s Vance Chavis Branch)
*       U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Greensboro’s two white hospitals must admit black patients and black doctors to staff
*       Human Relations Commission established
*       Henry Frye appointed first African American Assistant U.S. District Attorney in state
*       5-digit zip codes begin

1964
*       Hagan Stone Park opens
*       Jesse Jackson graduates from NCA&T
*       Musician Lyonel Hampton plays at NCA&T Homecoming
*       Ben L. Smith High School opens

1965
*       Jaycees named World’s No. 1 Chapter
*       Portions of Warnersville neighborhood razed and replaced by Hampton Homes public housing
*       WUAG Radio Station founded
*       Gilbarco Co. moves to Greensboro
*       Red Camellia Japonica becomes official flower

1966
*       Wendover Ave. built for 12.5 million dollars
*       NBC-TV broadcasts Greensboro Ringling Brothers Circus performance for nationwide audience
*       Power House of Deliverance Holiness Church organized
*       Greensboro Preservation Society founded
*       Basketball player Lou Hudson becomes first Greensboro player drafted in NBA’s first round

1967
*       Greensboro named All-American City
*       Carolina Peacemaker begins publication
*       Las Amigas, Inc. founded
*       Joseph Fuller Products distributorship, forerunner to Dudley Products, established
*       Greensboro Urban Ministry founded
*       ACC Basketball Tournament held at Coliseum
*       Acropolis Restaurant opens
*       Las Amigas, Inc. holds first Vals Purez Hovenez Ball

1968
*       Henry Frye became first black to serve in the N.C. General Assembly in the 20th century
*       Greensboro Beautiful organized
*       Elreta Alexander becomes state’s first African American elected district court judge
*       Jefferson Standard and Pilot Life become Jefferson-Pilot Corporation
*       Greensboro Yankees affiliate with Houston Astros for one year, after which the city loses pro ball for 10 years

1969
*       Protest over election at Dudley High School spreads to NCA&T campus; National Guard called and one student killed
*       Carolina Cougars of American Basketball Association brings pro basketball franchise to town until 1974
*       Central YMCA opens at new W. Market St. location
*       City has 52,520 eligible voters in 29 precincts
*       Dudley Products established

1970
*       Medal of Honor presented posthumously to Pfc. Phill McDonald for heroism during Vietnam War
*       Notre Dame High School razed
*       Cosmos Club, later known as Trevi Fountain, opens
*       Malcolm X Liberation University moves from Durham to Greensboro
*       Dr. George Simkins and ten other African American parents file lawsuit demanding immediate school desegregation
*       Alonzo Hall Towers opens for senior citizens
*       Bryan Park opens
*       UNCG-run Curry School closes after 77 years
*       Greensboro Day School opens
*       Metropolitan YMCA established
*       Coliseum expansion doubles arena seating from 8,000 to 16,000

1971
*       Greensboro integrates public schools through federal order
*       Jaycee Park opens
*       Future astronaut Ronald McNair graduates from NCA&T, later dies in 1980 Challenger shuttle explosion
*       Greensboro National Bank opens
*       Genesis Marker erected in Fisher Park, marking geographical center of Guilford County
*       Vandalia Christian School founded
*       Greensboro Council of Catholic Women founded
*       Davie St. YWCA building opens
*       Downtown King Cotton Hotel imploded

1972
*       City’s first automatic teller machine installed
*       Lindley Recreation Center opens
*       Peeler Recreation Center opens
*       Drifters, Inc. founded
*       Metropolitan United Methodist Church founded
*       Prince of Peace Lutheran Church founded
*       NCA&T becomes constituent institution of UNC System
*       3232 farmers grow 8200 acres of tobacco

1973
*       Greensboro-Guilford Co. Governmental Center dedicated

1974
*       Walter Johnson becomes first African American to chair Greensboro School Board
*       David Caldwell Memorial Association established
*       Guilford Native American Association established
*       Four Seasons Town Centre opens
*       David Caldwell Historic Park dedicated
*       Downtown O. Henry Hotel closes

1976
*       Safety Town program launched to teach children traffic safety
*       Carolina Circle Mall opens, features skating rink
*       Craft Center opens
*       Fairview Center opens
*       Bicentennial Garden opens

1977
*       Trotter Recreation Center opens
*       Piedmont Chapter of Afro-American Genealogical Society founded
*       Chamber of Commerce launches Leadership Greensboro program
*       Black Child Development Institute of Greensboro founded
*       Women’s Professional Forum founded
*       Senior Resources of Guilford founded

1978
*       Hospice of Greensboro founded
*       Bryan Enrichment Center opens
*       Black Child Development Institute founded
*       Hamburger Square Post begins publication

1979
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