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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