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GREENVILLE 



ing a colossal statue of Washington, now in the 

 Capitol at Washington. Here are also to be 

 found his groups of The Rescue, which took 

 him eight years to complete. Among the well- 

 known Americans who sat for portraits to him 

 are John and John Quincy Adams. Henry 

 Clay, John Jacob Astor and John Marshall. 



GREEN RIVER, an important tributary of 

 the Ohio River, rising in Lincoln County, near 

 the center of the state of Kentucky. It flows 

 west and northwest until after a course of 300 

 miles it joins the Ohio about eight miles from 

 Evansville. It is navigable for small vessels 

 for about 200 miles, with the aid of locks and 

 dams. Green River passes close to the mouth 

 of the Mammoth Cave (which see) and re- 

 ceives the waters of the Echo River, which 

 flow through an underground passage from the 

 cave. 



GREENSBORO, N. C., one of the pro- 

 gressive cities of the New South, situated 

 northwest of the geographical center of the 

 state, in Guilford County, of which it is the 

 county seat. It is eighty-one miles northwest 

 of Raleigh, the state capital, and on the 

 Southern Railroad. The place was settled in 

 1808, was chartered in 1870 and was named 

 in honor of General Greene, who commanded 

 the Continental army in the Battle of Guil- 

 ford Courthouse (March, 1781). Since 1911 

 the commission form of government has been 

 in operation. The population has grown 

 steadily; in 1916 it was estimated by the Cen- 

 sus Bureau to be 19,577, an increase of 3,682 

 since 1910. The area of the city is four square 

 miles. 



The region in which Greensboro is located 

 is rich in tobacco, fruit and grain, and the city 

 has a considerable trade in these and its manu- 

 factured products, which include cotton goods, 

 cotton-mill supplies, carpets, fertilizers, furni- 

 ture, stoves, tiles and buggies. Iron, copper 

 and gold are also found in this locality, and 

 the city has a large blast furnace. In its terri- 

 tory, Greensboro is noted as an educational 

 center, being the seat of Greensboro Female 

 College (Methodist Episcopal South), opened 

 in 1846, and the State Normal and Industrial 

 College, for white students. For colored stu- 

 dents the city has the Bennett, the Lutheran 

 and the State Agricultural and Mechanical 

 colleges. There are two parks, several hos- 

 pitals, a public library and a Masonic Home. 



GREENSBURG, PA., the county seat of 

 Westmoreland County, sinutnl m the south- 

 western section of the stutr. tliirtv-onr miles 



southeast of Pittsburgh and on the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad. Electric lines connect with 

 cities south, and through Pittsburgh with 

 cities west. The people are engaged in coal min- 

 ing and in making glass, iron and brass products 

 and steam-heating apparatus. Saint Mary's 

 and Saint Joseph's academies, in addition to 

 the public schools, offer educational advan- 

 tages. The borough was settled in 1784, be- 

 came the county seat in 1787 and was incor- 

 porated in 1799. In 1773 the first organized 

 court of justice west of the Allegheny Moun- 

 tains was held in Hanna's Town (destroyed 

 by Indians in 1782), a few miles from the site 

 of Greensburg. The boroughs of East Greens- 

 burg, Southeast Greensburg and Ludwick were 

 annexed to Greensburg in 1905. In 1910 the 

 population was 13,012 ; in 1916 it was 15,483, by 

 Federal estimate. The area of the borough 

 is nearly two square miles. 



GREENVILLE, Miss., the county seat of 

 Washington County, situated on the north- 

 western border of the state and on the Mis- 

 sissippi River. Jackson, the state capital, is 

 100 miles southeast, and Memphis is 139 miles 

 north. Railway transportation is provided by 

 the Southern and the Yazoo & Mississippi Val- 

 ley railways, and there is steamer connection 

 with the various river ports. This section of 

 the country has a remarkable growth of cotton, 

 and large quantities of it are shipped from 

 Greenville. Aside from the kindred cotton 

 establishments, ^eettonseed oil factories, gins, 

 compresses, etc., saw and planing mills are the 

 only important industrial plants in the city. 

 Greenville was incorporated in 1870 and was 

 chartered in 1886. In 1910 the population was 

 9,610; in 1916 it was 10,846, by Federal esti- 

 mate. 



GREENVILLE, S. C., the county seat of 

 Greenville County, is an important cotton- 

 textile-manufacturing city in the northwestern 

 part of the state. It is 111 miles northwest 

 of Columbia, the state capital, thirty-two miles 

 west by south of Spartanburg and 160 miles 

 northeast of Atlanta, and is on the Reedy 

 River, near rapids which furnish power for 

 several large mills. Transportation facilities 

 are provided by the Southern, the Charleston 

 & Western Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Line 

 and the Greenville & Western railroads, and 

 by the Piedmont & Northern interurban elec- 

 tric line. The population of the city in 1910 

 was 15,741, and in 1916 it was 18,181, by Federal 

 estimate. It lies near many smaller towns, and 

 covers an area of nearly five square miles. 



