Thomasville, North Carolina Thomasville, North Carolina Nickname(s): T-Vegas, Chair City, Tater Town Location in Davidson County and the state of North Carolina Location in Davidson County and the state of North Carolina State North Carolina Thomasville is a town/city in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States.
The populace was 26,757 at the 2010 census. The town/city is notable for its furniture industry, as are its neighbors High Point and Lexington.
Built around the small-town stockyards system, Thomasville is home to the earliest barns depot in the state, just a several hundred feet from the city's most notable landmark, "The Big Chair".
7.1 Thomasville Senior High Bulldogs Knowing the barns was coming, Thomas assembled the community's first store in 1852 at present-day West Main and Salem streets, and the improve was titled "Thomasville" for its founder.
In 1855 the North Carolina Railroad was assembled through Davidson County, reaching Thomasville November 9.
On January 8, 1857, Thomasville was incorporated and occupied one square mile, with the barns dividing the town into north and south sections.
In 1860 Thomasville had 308 citizens .
Other furniture companies were Lambeth Furniture, Thompson Chair, and Queen Chair Company.
Cramer Furniture was said to be the South's second biggest furniture business in 1901.
Thomasville Chair, started in 1904, soon became the town's dominant furniture manufacturer.
By 1909 Jewel Cotton Mills and Amazon Cotton Mills gave Thomasville another industry, textiles.
Sellers Hosiery Mills of Burlington opened in 1913, and Thomasville Hosiery in 1916. The Abbott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Brummell's Inn, Church Street School, Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery, Shadrach Lambeth House, Mitchell House, Randolph Street Historic District, Salem Street Historic District, Smith Clinic, Thomasville Downtown Historic District, and Thomasville Railroad Passenger Depot are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thomasville is generally referred to as the "Chair Town" or "Chair City", in reference to a 30-foot (9.1 m) landmark replica of a Duncan Phyfe armchair that rests in the middle of the city.
The initial "Big Chair" was constructed in 1922 by the Thomasville Chair Company (now Thomasville Furniture Industries) out of lumber and Swiss steer hide to reflect the city's prominent furniture industry.
The Big Chair attained national consideration in 1960 when then Presidential candidate Lyndon B.
Johnson greeted supporters on the monument amid a campaign whistle stop. Although larger ones have been built, many Thomasville inhabitants still boast that the Big Chair between the two Main Streets is the "World's Largest Chair".
Thomasville is positioned in northeastern Davidson County at 35 53 9 N 80 4 38 W (35.885848, -80.077323). It is bordered to the east by the town/city of Trinity in Randolph County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city of Thomasville has a total region of 16.8 square miles (43.5 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2), or 0.07%, is water. Climate data for Thomasville, North Carolina The ethnic composition of the town/city was: 68.3% White, 19.6% African American, 14.4% Hispanic or Latino American, 1.1% Asian American, 0.01% Native American, 0% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 8.1% some other race, and 2.1% two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Thomasville's populace has grown much faster than the rest of North Carolina and the United States.
Enumeration Bureau estimates that as of 2005 Thomasville's populace reached 25,872, an annual average expansion of over 6% from 2000.
North Carolina interval at an average rate of 1.6%, and the United States interval at an average rate of 1%.
Thomasville has been historically associated with furniture and cabinetry manufacture, as well as for a wholesale and retail furniture market.
"Thomasville" is used as a trade designation for artisan furniture made by either Thomasville Furniture Industries or furniture companies that are based in the city.
Thomasville Furniture Industries was started here in 1904 as a chair business before becoming a furniture manufacturing business in the 1960s.
After the last two plants closed in 2014, the Thomasville Furniture Industries Showroom became the only part of the business still positioned in Thomasville.
The business also operates a plant in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Other companies based in Thomasville include trucker Old Dominion Freight Line.
Although Thomasville is positioned in Davidson County, it has its own enhance school system.
The Thomasville City Schools fitness consists of four schools: Thomasville Primary (K-2), Liberty Drive Elementary (3-5), Thomasville Middle School (6-8), Thomasville High School (9-12).
Davidson County Schools has eight schools in the Thomasville area: Brier Creek Elementary (K-5), Fair Grove Elementary (K-5), Hasty Elementary (K-5), Wallburg Elementary School (K-5), Friendship Elementary School (K-5), Pilot Elementary (K-5), E.
Lawson Brown Middle School (6-8), Ledford Middle School (6-8), East Davidson High School (9-12), and Ledford High School (9-12).
Thomasville Senior High Bulldogs Thomasville Senior High School Bulldogs won the state 1 - AA Football Championship from 2004 to 2006, and again in 2008.
Also, the Thomasville Senior High School marching band, The Scarlet Regiment, is an award-winning band.
The Thomasville Bulldogs are well known throughout the state for excelling in athletics, especially football. Thomasville is also home to the High Point-Thomasville Hi - Toms of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league sanctioned by the NCAA.
The Hi - Toms play at Historic Finch Field in Thomasville, which was assembled in 1935.
The Thomasville Times, a bi-weekly improve newspaper, covers the city.
In addition, three larger daily Triad newspapers cover Thomasville: The Winston-Salem Journal, The High Point Enterprise and The Greensboro News & Record.
Johnny Allen, a pitcher in primary league baseball, spent part of his youth in the Baptist orphanage in Thomasville, and attended Thomasville High School. Dan Clodfelter, politician, attorney, and former acting mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, born in Thomasville. Sam Watford Politician, State Senator from Davidson County, former Davidson County Commissioner, well known enhance servant United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Thomasville city, North Carolina".
Bob Burchette, "Thomasville: Ready for Fresh Start," Greensboro News & Record, September 23, 1990, Centennial section p.
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"The Big Chair" United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Monthly Averages for Thomasville, NC".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
(1994), Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 5, University of South Carolina, pp.
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