Short answers, pulled from the story.
Greensboro was planned in 1808 to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The town layout placed the courthouse at the intersection of Elm and Market streets to be closer to the geographical center of the county.
Jefferson Davis reassembled with his cabinet in Greensboro on the 11th of April 1865 after fleeing Richmond Virginia. This city served as the last place where the entire Confederate government met as a group before they separated to continue their war effort west of the Mississippi River.
Four black college students sat down at an all-white Woolworth lunch counter on the 1st of February 1960 and refused to leave after being denied service. They had purchased items elsewhere in the store and presented receipts to challenge why their money was accepted for goods but not for food.
Five members of the Communist Workers Party were killed when Klansmen and neo-Nazis exchanged gunfire during an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally on the 3rd of November 1979. Eleven Communist Workers Party members and one Klansman were injured in the confrontation that became known as the Greensboro massacre.
Construction began on the Boom Supersonic factory at Piedmont Triad International Airport in 2022 and it was completed in June 2024. The site serves as a final assembly line and test site for its supersonic passenger aircraft Overture.