Guilford County has also been host to a number of recreational and cultural events, including the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, the City Stage street festival, the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic golf tournament, and the Atlantic Coast Conference and Southern Conference basketball tournaments. Agricultural products include tobacco, corn, chickens, swine, and beef and dairy cattle. The local economy, long centered around the manufacture of textiles, apparel, and furniture, has since greatly diversified (though the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point remains a celebrated and lucrative annual event). The county continued to thrive throughout the twentieth century, with many corporations such as Jefferson-Pilot, VF, and Lorillard taking up residence. In the wake of the Civil War, Guilford County's attractive combination of low taxes, inexpensive labor, and abundant raw materials such as cotton, timber, and tobacco promoted rapid industrialization. Greensboro was connected to seven main roads by 1820, and the arrival of the North Carolina Railroad in the 1850s facilitated the shipping of goods through the area. Throughout its history, Guilford County has depended upon its role as a commercial transportation hub to spark its economy. Institutions dedicated to presenting and interpreting Guilford County history include the Greensboro Historical Museum, the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum (a North Carolina State Historic Site), the High Point Museum, and Mendenhall Plantation, a Quaker homestead in Jamestown that dates to 1811. The sit-ins by four North Carolina A&Tstudents at a downtown Woolworth Store lunch counter in 1960 became a national focal point of the civil rights movement. For Name searches, enter in the first three letters of either the first or last name. Since our parcel numbers are consecutive numbers these would not yield the same results: 6868, 687 or 68687. High Point University in High Point was founded in 1924. Search Tips: For Parcel Number searches, enter the up to 7-digit parcel number, with no leading zeros. The city of Greensboro boasts several institutions of higher learning, including Guilford College (1837), Greensboro College (1838), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (1891), and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1891). The important Revolutionary War battle at Guilford Courthouse, commemorated today by a national military park, took place in March 1781. Guilford County's history and culture have been among the richest of any North Carolina county.
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