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High Point's unemployment set to surge 

News 14 Carolina - Oct 05 8:23 AM
HIGH POINT, N.C. -- More than 200 employees at Rose Furniture in High Point will lose their jobs when the store finally closes in the coming months. However, state unemployment agencies have begun to jump in to lend a hand to those affected employees.

3-Point Championship, LLC to Host First Ever High Stakes 3-Point Shooting Basketball Event 
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Hershey, PA (PRWEB) October 5, 2006 -- 3-Point Championship, LLC announced today plans to run the first event of its kind – a high stakes 3-point shooting championship with $500,000 to the winner and a total purse of nearly $1,000,000.

High Point: Strong-arm tactics denied 
Hernando Today - Oct 04 6:55 PM
HIGH POINT — Homeowners in High Point are asked to voluntarily contribute $45 a year to their volunteer fire department. High Point is no different than many volunteer firefighting organizations throughout the country that rely on donations to pay the bills.

State inspects High Point Fire 
Hernando Today - Oct 04 6:55 PM
HIGH POINT — Although the final results of a state inspection of the High Point Fire Department will not be released for at least two months, initial results appear positive.

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High Point, North Carolina
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Nickname: "Furniture and high point university Hosiery Capital of the World"
Location in Guilford County and the state of North Carolina
Country United States
State North Carolina
Counties Guilford, Randolph, high point dodge dealers Davidson, Forsyth
Mayor Rebecca Smothers
Area  
 - City 95.1 mi² - 205.3 high point used dodge km²
 - Land 94.7 mi² used dodge high point - 204.2 km²
 - Water 0.4 mi² - 1.1 km²
Elevation 926. m
Population  
 - City (2005) 93,352
 - Metro 1,308,869
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
Website: http://www.high-point.net

High Point is a city in North Carolina, United States. As employment in high point nc of the 2000 census, the city had a high point nc part time jobs total population of 85,839. (Estimates now place the full time job in high point nc city population at around 100,000).

High Point is known for its furniture, textiles, and bus manufacturing. It is generally regarded as full-time jobs in high point nc the "Furniture Capital of the World" and "North Carolina's International City" due high point nc employment to the bi-annual High Point high point nc part-time job Market that attracts 100,000 exhibitors and buyers from around the world. The area high point nc part-time work code is 336.

It is home to the only Bentley dealership in jobs in high point nc all neighboring states.

Most of the city is located part time work in high point nc in Guilford County, with portions spilling into neighboring Randolph, Davidson, and Forsyth counties.

1920s Postcard from High Point

Contents

  • 1 History
  • 2 Geography
  • 3 Climate
  • 4 Demographics
  • 5 Economy
  • 6 Transportation
  • 7 Education
  • 8 Media
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    • 8.2 Television high point chrysler dealers high point pre-owned chrysler high point pre-owned dodge high point used chrysler stations
  • 9 Notable new chrysler high point natives
  • 10 See also
  • 11 External links

History

Among the first Europeans to settle high point enterprise Guilford County were Quakers and German immigrants. High Point was high point firearms located at the highest point of the 1856 North Carolina Railroad between Charlotte high point furniture and Goldsboro where it intersected the 1852 Great Western Plank Road. high point nc classified Its central location and transportation allowed for the delivery high point nc classifieds of raw materials like cotton and lumber and processed goods in and out firearm gun high pistol point of the city and contributed to its early growth. It high point furniture market was incorporated in 1859. Before it became a major manufacturing center, the most important industries were tobacco, woodworking high point north carolina and textiles. The first of high point nc many High Point furniture factories was opened in 1889 [1].

High Point’s conception is not solely linked to manufacturing; it is high point insurance also tied to religious freedom high point north carolina furniture beginning as early as the mid-eighteenth century as a refuge for Pennsylvania Quakers who came to the region in high point regional hospital search of affordable land, good climate, and an opportunity high point nc furniture to create a principled and ordered community. Members of satellite dish high speed internet pilot point texas the Society of Friends held beliefs that many considered heresy in high point chiropractic the late eighteenth century. Central to these core convictions were values of community and crown point high school equality that led to the development high point file cabinets of specialized trades and early educational systems that were the foundations for the future growth of the region.

Since its reseller web hosting high point incorporation, High Point has been an ambitious city. Whether rallying high point guns around Union carpetbaggers in the 1870s and textile barons in the 1910s, or planning public parks in the high point north carolina road runner high speed internet 1930s, the city has always been forward looking in its prospects. City historians high point university diploma frames such as J. J. Farriss, Stephen C. Clark, Frank Sizemore, presbyterian home of high point and Holt McPherson have high point nc furniture companies wholesale proudly documented the city’s past as if writing a user’s mikasa high point guide for building a model city. Memorialized in numerous successful businesses and family fortunes, this ambition also is recorded in the city’s architecture.

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Reflecting the city’s growth and influence is an architectural inventory increasingly representative of High Point's civic pride and high point market cultural sophistication. Since early settlement, hotels and high point police department merchant-houses presented fashionable façades to visitors and discerning shoppers. Later, wealthy industrialists had dodge truck for rent in high point north carolina ambitious houses and churches erected in popular styles that illustrated the growing town's sense of style. Finally, civic projects such as furniture high point schools and public works were built in increasingly popular and modern designs furniture market high point nc in a way that spoke to High Point's progressive spirit and greensboro winston salem high point event catering quickening pace. By the middle of the twentieth century, High high point mover Point had assembled an impressive collection of architecture representing nearly every high point newspaper popular style since the city was founded, high point raid controller some designed by nationally recognized architects and planners.

Within the twenty-first century, high point self storage increasing influence has been found in the city's institutions of higher education. Established in 1924, High Point University is a liberal arts high point storage pod institution furniture outlets in high point nc with approximately 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 52 countries and 36 states at campuses in High high point mini storage Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by U.S. News and World Report 12th among comprehensive universities high point moving in the South and in the top high point moving pod 100 nationally. The university offers 45 undergraduate majors and five graduate-degree programs. high point nc deep river park It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of high point portable storage Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference.

Geography

High Point is the only city in North Carolina local moving high point that exists within four counties: Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph. It also stands within two north carolina high point greensboro archdale houses for major watersheds: The Yadkin-Pee Dee and the Cape Fear. Parts of south point high school the city rise above sweet shoppe bakery, high point 1000 feet, making it among the highest cities in North Carolina's Piedmont.

High Point city of high point is located at 35°58′14″N, 79°59′51″W GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the furniture moving companies from high point nc city has a total area of high point country club 131.3 km² (50.7 mi²). 127.0 km² (49.0 mi²) of it is high point local moving land and 4.2 km² (1.6 mi²) of it (3.24%) is water.

Climate

The climate in High Point is temperate, with four seasons. high point pod Summers tend to high point pod storage be hot and sometimes humid, with the dewpoints rising to high point state park the upper 60s and low 70s during July and August. Fall and spring are mild. Winters are cold, but only mini storage high point a few days every winter does the bathroom mirrors high point nc temperature drop below -5° C. Rainfall patterns are generally spread evenly throughout the year, with between six furniture high nc point shopping and nine wet days per month. Snowfall is unpredictable, with some winters experiencing little high point enterprise newspaper and others characterised by occasional snowstorms. January lows average high point golf club -3° C (28° F) and highs average 7° C (48° F). July lows high point pods average 19° C (67° F) and highs average 30° C (88° F) although during high point raid controller compat issue heat waves, summer highs can cross 35° nano tech jobs high point C (95° F). The lowest temperature ever officially recorded for the stevens point area senior high school city was -22° C (-7° F), and the highest temperature ever recorded was the high point enterprise news 40° C (104° F). High Point has a humid continental climate, though being located between the west point high school mountains and the ocean it experiences less temperature fluctuation than all red metal stamping works inc high point inland areas.


Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Avg high °F 48 51 60 70 78 84 88 86 80 70 60 50
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Avg low temperature °F 28 30 37 46 55 63 67 66 59 47 37 30
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Rainfall in. 3.3 3.3 3.8 3.2 3.6 3.8 4.4 4.1 3.3 3.4 2.9 3.2
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Source: Weatherbase

Demographics

As of the furniture stores high point nc censusGR2 of 2000, there were 85,839 people, 33,519 households, and 22,524 families residing in the city. high point college The population density was high point college north carolina 675.7/km² (1,750.1/mi²). There were 35,952 housing units at an average density of 283.0/km² (733.0/mi²). The racial makeup high point handguns of the city was 60.56% White, 31.77% African American, 0.46% Native American, high point hosting windows linux web site hosting north 3.35% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.27% from other races, and 1.57% from high point nc contemporary furniture two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of high point nc furniture mart any race were 4.89% of the population.

There were 33,519 households out of which 32.9% had high point regional children under the age of 18 living with open a bank account at omni bank in high point them, 46.9% were married couples living together, 16.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.8% were non-families. 27.2% of all rose furniture high point nc households were made universal furniture high point nc up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. why does water have a high boiling point The average household size was 2.49 and the average camp point central junior high school family size was 3.03.

In the city the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age deliver furniture from high point nc to georgia of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 31.8% from furniture high nc point roses 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to furniture liquidators in high point nc 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median high boiling point of water age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 91.5 males. For every high point cosmetic surgeon 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males.

The median income high point cosmetic surgery for a household in the city was $40,137, and the median income for a high point north carolina tapestries family was $48,057. Males had a median income of $33,411 versus $25,293 for females. high point plastic surgeon The per capita income for the city was $21,303. About 10.5% of families and 13.2% of high point plastic surgery the population were below immaculate heart of mary high point nc the poverty line, including 18.6% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over.

Economy

High Point's point loma high school 10 Largest Private Employers
High Point Regional Healthcare System 1,825
Thomas Built Buses 1,614
Bank of rustic furniture high point nc America 1,550
NCO Group, Inc. 994
Tyco Electronic 934
Polo Ralph Lauren 920
Aetna 710
Marsh Furniture Company 658
Cornerstone Health 656
Mannington Mills 505

Once synonymous with furniture, hosiery, and Hatteras yachts, High Point has diversified its self storage high point economy as a center for distribution and logistics, customer service and wolf point high school banking, manufacturing, photography, and bakery, high point pharmaceuticals. The city has also benefited from the nearby Dell manufacturing plant in Forsyth County, and will likely city of high point nc see growth due to the planned FedEx air freight hub at the desert point high Piedmont Triad International Airport.

In 2005, High Point adopted “North Carolina’s International furniture floor samples in high point nc City™ ” as its official slogan. City Manager Strib Boynton furniture high nc point rose also unveiled an appropriate logo, that is being used by most municipal departments. High Point had been furniture high point nc using that furniture market samples high point nc slogan unofficially for several years.

The City considers itself “North Carolina’s International City™” since:

  • Approximately 70 internationally-owned companies have facilities in High Point.
  • Many more foreign-based furniture mart high point nc companies show their products furniture moving companies high point nc here twice each year at

High Point’s International Home Furnishings Market.

  • The International Home hampton brown high point Furnishings Market brings to town approximately 14,000

foreign guests each year. Those visitors high point carbine represent more than 110 countries.

The International Home Furnishing Market remains the centerpice to High high point chamber of commerce Point's economy. The massive trade show is the largest, high point deck lighting most well-known, and most important furnishings industry trade show in the world.

  • Approximately 12 million square feet of high point in nc furniture center showroom space is used by high point personal injury attorneys 2300 exhibitors,

in 188 separate buildings.

  • An average of 150,000 persons attend Market each year: manufacturers, exhibitors,

retail buyers, sales representatives, interior high point university soccer camp designers, architects, exhibitor support personnel, suppliers, and news lesson plans high point a hampton-brown media.

  • Approximately 14,000 foreign visitors, from 110 countries, attend Market annually.

High Point’s Market – held every rose furniture high point six months – is also the state’s largest economic event. According to a 2004 3212 flanders high point study by Dr. Andrew Brod of the University of North american drew furniture jessica mc clintock high point nc Carolina at Greensboro:

  • 13,000 jobs are attributed to Market’s existence.
  • Market pumps approximately $1.14 billion into the city, region, deliver furniture high point nc georgia furniture marsh industries high point nc and state

economies annually. The International Home Furnishings Market Authority has taken the leadership hgl pipes high points examples role in improving and expanding Market as a world-class show. The Authority was formed in 2001 due to the high point 9mm efforts of the City of High Point and its business leaders to create a sponsor for high point anvil lopper the 97-year-old Market. International Home Furnishings high point central football Market Authority

Transportation

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High Point is served by Piedmont Triad high point enterprise high point enterprise International Airport, which also serves Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

Amtrak's Crescent and Carolinian and Piedmont trains connect High high point nc furniture manufacturers Point with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, high point nc furniture market Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. high point nc furniture stores The recently refurbished historic Amtrak station is situated at 100 West High Street.

Interstate 85 runs through southern High Point, southeast of high point nj the original interstate roadway, high point north carolina sprint dsl which is now designated Business 85. High Point is going to have Interstate 74 east of center city in the future. high point public criminal records Construction on the project is scheduled to high point public library start after 2012. Part of Interstate 74 is already built, and is signed US 311.

The Piedmont high point world resort Authority for Regional Transportation(PART) also operates in High Point. It is high points a service that shuttles people inbetween most of the cities the enterprise high point nc in the northwestern Piedmont region of North Carolina. High Point also provides public townhomes and condos for rent in high point nc transportation. The main service for bicycle toy & hobby high point nc public transportation in High Point is hitran, the local bus service

Education

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Private schools for the education of children were established in and around High Point as early as the early craig curty, high point university nineteenth century by Quakers. The New York frazier downs high point Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, a network of Quakers from that state, started a school in furniture high point north carolina Asheboro in the 1880s for African American students. The school relocated to High furniture land south high point nc Point in 1891 on land east of town on Washington Street. The institution furniture liquidators high point nc was named high point apostolic the High Point Normal and Industrial School (later William Penn High School), and was administered high point arms by the Quakers until 1897. In that year, black educator Alfred J. Griffin accepted the position high point furniture company nc of principal and led the establishment into a long period of growth.

The High high point furniture industry high point nc Point public school system was founded in high point library 1897 with the approval of a $10,000 bond, in part to finance the purchase of J. Elwood high point nc arsenic poisoning Cox’s family home on South Main Street for use as the first school building. high point nc furniture outlet Twelve school commissioners were appointed to administer the 350-student system of five grades. high point nc furniture outlets Growth of the city’s institutions reflected improved primary educational high point nc newspaper facilities. A school building campaign coupled with high point regional high school additional grades and improved classes resulted in four additional schools for white students: Elm high point resort Street School (1905), Park Street School (1910), Fairview School (1910), and Grimes Street School (1911). Many other schools high point yellow pages were all born in the 1920s during a period of rapid international furniture market high point nc growth.

This building spree culminated in 1927 with the opening of High Point High manchester furniture high point School. modern furniture stores in high point nc Among the many high styled school complexes in the state, few surpass High Point’s grand 1927 high school. The campus moss point high school joined the talents of two north point high school designers; Greensboro architect Harry Barton and Charlotte landscape architect Earl S. Draper. The prominent building was matched in 1931 with the addition of obituaries in greensboro high point north carolina Ferndale owner operator truckers for hire high point nc Middle School just to the east, designed to incorporate details from the high school so that it maintained a campus theme. Both plato wilson of high point nc shared athletic facilities on a large tract of land time warner cable high point between downtown and Emerywood. An additional high school named after T. Wingate Andrews west point junior high utah was established in the 1960s.

Several private and independent schools are center point urbana high school found in High Point, including High Point Christian Academy (Baptist), High Point Friends School (Quaker), crown point high school alumni Immaculate Heart of Mary (Catholic), Wesleyan Christian Academy (Methodist), and ecco high point Westchester Country Day School (Nonsectarian).

In 1921, the Chamber of Commerce made furniture land south in high point nc the establishment of a college in High Point a furniture manufacturers in high point nc high priority and initiated a High Point College Campaign. The campaign solicited funds in order to attract the furniture market samples in high point nc attention of the North Carolina furniture outlet high point nc Methodist Protestants, who had desired for decades to found furniture shopping high point nc a college. High Point succeeded in attracting the college over rivals Greensboro and Burlington with a gift of sixty acres furniture show high point nc and $100,000 in pledges from leading citizens. High furniture store in high point nc Point College opened in 1924 (changed to High Point University in 1991) furniture stores in high point with three buildings at various stages of development. Many of hampton brown high points the numerous civic organizations founded in the 1920s pledged funds, high point , nc trains including the Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitan, and the American Business Club. The architectural design of the High Point College campus high point accident attorneys was in keeping with traditional and historical architectural initiatives found at many private colleges and universities high point accident lawyers across the state in the 1920s. The administration building (Roberts Hall), high point central high school male and female dormitories (McCulloch Hall and Women’s high point community theatre Hall, respectively), and a central heating plant were all erected between 1922 high point design and 1924 according to designs by Washington, high point elementary school D.C., architect R. E. Mitchell with assistance by High Point architect Herbert Hunter. Today, High Point University is a four-year, coeducational, liberal high point elks lodge arts university related to the United high point gun magazine Methodist Church. It offers 50 majors in a traditional day format. It also offers non-traditional Evening Programs, and the high point injury attorneys Graduate Studies offers four Master's degrees and six programs.

Media

Newspapers

The High Point Enterprise, established in high point inventory employment 1885, is the sole daily newspaper published in High Point. City news coverage high point life insurance rates is also served by the Greensboro News and Record, the Business Journal of the Triad, the Winston-Salem high point malpractice attorneys Journal, and the Jamestown News.

Television stations

High Point makes up part of the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point television designated market area. These high point medical center, mn stations are listed by call letters, channel number, network and city of license.

  • WFMY-TV, 2, high point n. carolina CBS, Greensboro
  • WGHP, 8, high point nc furniture store FOX, High Point
  • WXII-TV, 12, NBC, Winston-Salem
  • WGPX, 16, Pax, Burlington
  • WCWG, 20, WB, Lexington
  • WUNL-TV, 26, PBS/UNCTV, Winston-Salem
  • WXLV-TV, 45, high point new jersey camping ABC, Winston-Salem
  • WUPN-TV, 48, UPN, Greensboro
  • WLXI-TV, 61, TBN, Greensboro

Notable natives

  • Fantasia Barrino, high point north carolina fitness franchise from American Idol Season 3
  • Robert Brown, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, B&C Associates, Inc. Director, aaiPharma, Inc., high point north carolina furniture mirror screen AutoNation, Inc., high point office furniture Duke Energy Corporation, Sonoco Products Company, and Wachovia.
  • Luke Appling, Chicago White Sox inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame 1964
  • James Cain, Ambassador to Denmark
  • John Coltrane, high point personal injury lawyers celebrated saxophonist, high point pistol was born in Hamlet, NC and moved to High Point shortly after birth, where he remained through high school.
  • Anthony Dean high point treatment center plymouth ma Griffey, soloist tenor with history high point north carolina opera companies and symphony orchestras in major cities worldwide.
  • Dave Phillips, North Carolina history of high point in west seattle Commerce Secretary from 1993 to 1997
  • Phil Phillips, United States Ambassador to Barbados in the George leather sofas high point north carolina W. Bush administration
  • Maxwell Thurman, U. S. Army General, developed the "Be All That lee furniture high point nc You Can Be … Because We Need You, In Today's Army" campaign.
  • Capus Waynick, lloyds of high point United States Ambassador to Nicaragua and Colombia in the Truman administration
  • Adam Lazzara, lead north carolina nc furniture stores high point nc furniture singer of Taking Back Sunday
  • Jim Paschal, NASCAR driver
  • Bill Davis, owner phoenix academy new construction high point of Bill Davis Racing of NASCAR
  • Kyle Petty, rose furniture in high point nc NASCAR Driver

See also

  • Piedmont Triad
  • I-85 Corridor
  • High Point University

External links

  • Official website of High Point, NC
  • High Point showroom props high point north carolina Chamber of Commerce
  • High Point Furniture
  • High Point Convention and Visitors the high point enterprise newspaper of high point nc Bureau
  • High Point University
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