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6 unusual facts about Guilford


Elizabeth Mills Brown

Elizabeth Mills "Betty" Brown (November 28, 1916 – December 27, 2008) was a prominent American architectural historian, preservationist, and civic leader who lived in New Haven and Guilford, Connecticut.

Guilford, Baltimore

The houses were designed by some of the most prominent Baltimore architects of the era, included Edward L. Palmer, Bayard Turnball, John Russell Pope, W. D. Lamdin and Laurence Hall Fowler.

Guilford, Missouri

His hits included "Primrose Lane", "Shutters And Boards", "In The Misty Moonlight", and If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry.

Ogle Marbury

Marbury was born in Guilford, Howard County, Maryland to Reverend Ogle Marbury and Eleanora Brevitt MacKenzie Marbury.

Thomas Martin Easterly

Born in Guilford, Vermont, he was the second of five children born to Tunis Easterly and Philomena Richardson.

Verandah Porche

Verandah Porche (born November 7, 1945) is a poet living in Guilford, Vermont.


Battle of Gilford

Battle of Guilford Court House, an American Revolutionary War battle in 1781, Guilford County, North Carolina.

Del Amo Fashion Center

In 2003 The Mills Corporation acquired Del Amo Fashion Center from the Guilford Glazer Family for $420 million (USD).

Douglas Thomas

He is author or editor of numerous books including Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (Guilford, 1998), Cybercrime: Security and Surveillance in the Information Age (with Brian Loader, Routledge, 2000), Hacker Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies (with Marita Sturken and Sandra Ball-Rokeach).

Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of Guilford

John Evelyn, author of the book The Life of Mrs Godolphin, depicts Lady Guilford as a harsh, overly religious governess.

Ellen Palmer Allerton

Her father, a farmer, was born in East Guilford, Vermont on November 1, 1786 and her mother, a descendant of Dutch pioneers, on July 10, 1792 at Salisbury, Connecticut.

Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford

Guilford had been an eminent lawyer, Solicitor-General (1671), Attorney-General (1673), and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1675), and in 1679 was made a member of the Council of Thirty and, on its dissolution, of the Cabinet.

Gabriel T. Harrower

Gabriel T. Harrower (September 25, 1816 Guilford, Chenango County, New York – August 15, 1895 Lawrenceville, Tioga County, Pennsylvania) was an American politician from New York.

Guilford County, North Carolina

At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Guilford County were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura.

Guilford Glazer

The business school of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, established in 1995 and now named the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, was named for him in 2007 following a major donation.

Guilford Technical Community College

The school opened in 1958 with 50 students and two classes as the Guilford Industrial Education Center on the site of the Guilford County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which had operated from 1924 to 1955.

Henry Whitfield House

Henry Whitfield, one of Guilford's founders and first minister, is estimated to have been born sometime between June 8 and October 1, 1592 in Greenwich in the English county of Kent.

James Albert Gary

He spent much of his working life in textile manufacture in the Baltimore, Maryland, region, and was involved with cotton mills along the Patapsco and Patuxent Rivers, including Ely, Guilford, and Laurel, Maryland.

Joanne W. Bowie

Joanne W. Bowie was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-seventh House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

John Blust

John Marshall Blust (born June 4, 1954) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the state's sixty-second House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Other books include Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005), The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, co-authored with J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Zindel V. Segal (Guilford, 2007), and The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, co-authored with Richard Davidson (New Harbinger, 2012) (based on the 13th Mind and Life Institute Dialogue in 2005).

Maggie Jeffus

Margaret A. Moore Jeffus (born October 22, 1934) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-ninth House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

Nouvelle Droite

Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, New York: Guilford Press, 2000.

Pan Am Systems

Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System), a regional freight railroad network that covers most of northern New England.

Simeon B. Chittenden

Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, he attended Guilford Academy and from 1829 to 1842 engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven.

Southeast Guilford High School

Southeast Guilford High School is located in the southeast Guilford County, off U.S. Route 421.

The Early College at Guilford

Clubs include a Harvard Model Congress team (under the umbrella of Early College Model Congress), Guilford Model Congress, Interact Club, Math Team, a Red Cross club, Interact Service club, an active FIRST Robotics team, Academic Quiz Bowl team, Student Council, Student Human Relations Club, EducateUS, Science Olympiad, Speech and Debate Club, Film Club as well as many other arts and interest clubs.


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