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High Point

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High Point

City in north-central North Carolina, USA, 14 mi/23 km southwest of Greensboro, on the Piedmont Plateau; population (2000) 85,800. The furniture industry is very important to the economy; the Southern Furniture Market is held here four times a year, and the International Home Furnishings Market, held twice a year in High Point, attracts national and international exhibitors. Other industries include the manufacture of hosiery.

High Point was settled by Quakers in the 1750s, laid out in 1853, and incorporated as a city in 1898.

The city is the seat of High Point University (1924) and John Wesley College (1932).
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