Editing Greensboro, Pennsylvania (section)

===The beginning of settlement===

Like much of the region, Greensboro can trace its roots back to Native American settlement, to the [[Mingo]] tribes of the [[Iroquois|Northern Iroquois]]. What was to later become Greensboro was first known to the Mingo as "Delight", so named in recognition of the rich farmland that stretched along the banks of the [[Monongahela River]]. As early as 1752, settlers from the east and south began to stake their claims in the lands along the Monongahela. The first white settler of Delight was explorer-trader John Badolet, who was a close friend of John Minor. Minor was the leader of the first group to settle in the area presently known as [[Mapletown, Pennsylvania|Mapletown]], to the northwest of Greensboro in Monongahela Township.

In the early 1780s, Elias Stone bought Delight and divided it into blocks and streets; these still carry their original names. On February 9, 1790, Stone's growing village was named "Greensburgh" (later changed to "Greensboro") in honor of the Revolutionary War hero [[Nathanael Greene]], for whom Greene County was also named when it was formed from [[Washington County, Pennsylvania|Washington County]] in 1796. Due to its advantageous geographic location along the river, it quickly became an early trading center for settlers and travelers heading north to [[Pittsburgh]] and to points West.

[[Albert Gallatin]], a partner in Albert Gallatin & Company and later the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] under Presidents [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[James Madison]], purchased lots in Greensburgh in 1795.<ref name=carnegie /> He also purchased a great deal of land in Fayette County, including what was to become later the town of New Geneva, directly across the river from Greensburgh. On a trip to Washington, D.C., Gallatin met a group of German glassblowers who were heading to [[Kentucky]] to form their own company. He urged them to consider settling in Greensburgh instead of Kentucky. With Gallatin's assistance, the group settled in nearby New Geneva and operated the [[New Geneva Glass Works]] there until about 1805. Around that time, Gallatin was appointed the Secretary of the Treasury and sold his interest in the glassworks to his partners.<ref name=antiquarian>{{cite journal| last1=Abraham| first1=Evelyn| title=The Glass of New Geneva and Greensboro| journal=The Antiquarian| date=August 1931| volume=17| issue=2| pages=15–17}}</ref> The remaining partners moved the operation across the river to the northern section of Greensburgh, which consequently took on the name of Glassworks.