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Greensboro is located in southeastern Greene County at (39.792911, -79.912087 It is situated on the west bank of the Monongahela River , opposite New Geneva and the mouth of George's Creek. It is bordered by Monongahela Township in Greene County to the north and west, and by Nicholson Township in Fayette County to the south and east, across the ...
The Greensboro factory functioned from 1807 into the late 1840s, but closed in 1847 because it could no longer compete with newer, nearby glasshouses. [ 5 ] In 1837, the sons of Reitz and the Kramers (New Geneva's first glassblowers) founded a second glassworks in New Geneva and produced the same products as the earlier factories.
The original section of this historic structure was built circa 1810, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, four-bay, brick dwelling that was designed in a vernacular Federal style. An addition was built circa 1880 that has Italianate-style details.
Greensboro: 33: Peters-Graham House: Peters-Graham House: March 9, 1995 : Junction of Walnut and Second Streets: Greensboro: 34: Reppert-Gabler House: Reppert-Gabler House: July 27, 1995 : State Route 2014 in Glassworks
Chandler, Alfred. "Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the 'Industrial Revolution' in the United States", Business History Review 46 (1972): 141–181. in JSTOR; Churella, Albert J. (2013). The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume I, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4348-2. OCLC 759594295.
Monongahela Township is in eastern Greene County, bordered on the east by the Monongahela River, which forms the Fayette County line. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 18.0 square miles (46.6 km 2), of which 17.5 square miles (45.2 km 2) is land and 0.54 square miles (1.4 km 2), or 3.05%, is water.
Greene County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,954. [1] Its county seat is Waynesburg. [2] Greene County was created on February 9, 1796, from part of Washington County and named for General Nathanael Greene.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the National ...