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On April 7, 1850, citizens in northwestern Guilford County met and appointed a board of trustees to erect a schoolhouse. The school would eventually become Oak Ridge Academy, the first coeducational military high school in the nation.

On March 15, 1781, American and British forces clashed near Guilford Courthouse. The battle was the culmination of several months of hard campaigning by the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis.

On January 11, 1887, education advocate Calvin Henderson Wiley died.  Born in Guilford County in 1818, Wiley practiced law, edited a newspaper, and wrote novels before entering the political realm.