He taught mathematics there when he graduated, then at the Georgia Military Institute in 1885-86, as well as a 2-year stint teaching at South Georgia College in Thomasville.
Church whose Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery, in Thomasville, North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
Martin's headquarters is located in south-central Pennsylvania, at 5847 Lincoln Highway West in Thomasville; the company distributes to retailers in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Rolf Kauka (9 April 1917 in Markranstädt, Saxony – 13 September 2000 in Thomasville, Georgia) was a comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi.
Butler was born in Thomasville, Georgia to William Sloan and Winnie Williams on January 4, around 1872, just seven years after slavery was abolished.
The Big Chair gained national attention in 1960 when then Presidential Candidate Lyndon B. Johnson greeted supporters on the monument during a campaign whistle stop.
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Thomasville is commonly referred to as the "Chair Town" or "Chair City", in reference to a 30 foot landmark replica of a Duncan Phyfe armchair that rests in the middle of the city.
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Williams debuted with a band named The Santa Fe Trail Riders on WPAX in Thomasville, Georgia around 1940.
Eddie Mathews, Hall of Fame baseball player, played for Thomasville in 1949 before going to the majors.
Grooverville was once known as Key and was located at the crossing of the Thomasville and Madison and Sharpe's Store Road, which was in Thomas County prior to the creation of Brooks County, Georgia from Lowndes and Thomas County in 1858.
The team's name dates back to a team that was shared by the High Point and Thomasville communities in the Carolina League (1954-1958, 1968).
Augustine Hansell House, also known as Jeffries House, a historic house in Thomasville, Georgia
TV commercials for De Beers diamonds 2004 and Thomasville Furniture (voice-over) 2005
Rodenbery was reelected to the 62nd and 63rd Congresses; however, he died in Thomasville on September 25, 1913, while in office and was buried in that city's Laurel Hill Cemetery.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed through Spence while en route to the plantation of the former United States Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphreys, in Thomasville.
On a hunting visit to Thomasville with colleague George M. Humphrey, Dwight Eisenhower stopped by to take a photograph of the tree on his way to the airport.
Heritage Home Group bought most of that company's assets in 2013 and announced the end of Thomasville Furniture's operations in Thomasville in 2014.
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On January 21, 2014, the company's new owner, Heritage Home Group, announced that all operations in Thomasville would be shut down March 21.
In 1909, Wadesboro was a stop between Miccosukee and Lloyd on the 47 mile stretch of the Florida Central Railroad on its way south from Thomasville, Georgia to Fanlew, Florida.
WJDB-FM, a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to Thomasville, Alabama, United States
WBLO, a radio station (790 AM) licensed to Thomasville, North Carolina, United States and once called WTNC
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WIST-FM, a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to Thomasville, North Carolina, United States and once called WTNC-FM