Editing Trinity, North Carolina (section)

==History==
The community was named after Trinity College, which later became [[Duke University]]. Trinity College started as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private [[subscription school]] founded in 1838.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2017/09/week-duke-history-trinity-college-moves-durham|title=This Week In Duke History: Trinity College Moves To Durham|last=Gerber|first=Carolyn|date=September 6, 2017|website=Duke Today|publisher=[[Duke University]]|access-date=July 10, 2022}}</ref> The school was organized by a group of [[Methodism|Methodists]] and [[Society of Friends|Quakers]], and was officially started by Hezekiah Leigh, who was also a founder of [[Randolph-Macon College]]. In 1841 North Carolina issued a charter for Union Institute Academy. The school took the name Trinity College in 1859, and in 1892, the college moved to [[Durham, NC|Durham]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-05-15|title=Duke Magazine-Retrospective-November/December 2006|url=http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111206/depret.html|access-date=2021-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515204431/http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111206/depret.html|archive-date=2011-05-15}}</ref>

[[Sealy Corporation]], the world's largest manufacturer of bedding products with sales of $1.2 billion in 2003, is headquartered in Trinity.