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Founded by Methodist Church in 1924 with aid from City of High Point. University since 1991.
First settlement by Moravians in North Carolina, 1753; known also as Old Town. Church erected 1788. Town is 1 mile N.E.
Early on Mar. 15, 1781, the British and American forces skirmished near the New Garden Meeting House prior to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Major in Revolution, a commander at Kings Mountain, Congressman, state legislator. Town of Winston named for him. Home was 4 mi. W.
Governor, 1905-1909; legislator. Champion of Prohibition and of railroad regulation. Home stood 1 block W.
Site of a skirmish between American forces under Col. O. H. Williams and British troops under Col. James Webster, Mar. 6, 1781, is 6 mi. E.
First building erected 1851-52. Opened during academic year 1852-53. Since 1929 Oak Ridge Military Institute.
A coeducational college operated by the Society of Friends. Chartered as New Garden Boarding School in 1834. Opened in 1837.
Established by John M. Morehead, operated, 1840-1862, 1868-1871. Building, burned in 1872, stood at this site.
Presbyterian, organized about 1756. Present building, the third, was erected in 1827. Revolutionary soldiers buried here.