{"nrhp_refnum":"66000069","name":"Guilford Courthouse National Military Park","other_names":["Guilford Battlefield"],"category":"district","location":{"address":null,"address_restricted":true,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.1314,"lon":-79.8464,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2001-01-03","areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture","Transportation","Conservation","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 220-acre national military park about six miles northwest of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, preserving the core of the roughly 800-acre field where the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought on March 15, 1781.","why_significant":"The battle was a pivotal engagement of the Revolutionary War's Southern Campaign of 1780-81. Although the British won the field, they lost about 25% of their army, and Cornwallis withdrew to Wilmington. The nomination holds that this contributed to the surrender at Yorktown seven months later, and it rates the park of 1st Order significance.","narrative":"Guilford Courthouse National Military Park covers 220 acres northwest of Greensboro, North Carolina, the most important part of the roughly 800 acres where American and British forces fought on March 15, 1781. Citizens of the Guilford Battleground Company began preserving the field in 1887, adding monuments, roads, a lake and landscaping, and gave the land to the federal government in 1917. The National Park Service has managed it since 1933 and works to restore the battlefield's historic look. Today the park holds 28 monuments, markers and memorials, three historic roads, and the site of the vanished courthouse. The battle was a key moment in the Southern Campaign. Cornwallis held the field but lost about a quarter of his army, then retreated to Wilmington. Seven months later he surrendered at Yorktown. The park is rated of the highest order of significance.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (battle on March 15, 1781)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good, altered, on its original site; open to the public as a park and administered by the National Park Service since 1933, which works to restore the battlefield to its historic appearance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.987441-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7206/47720634/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/66000069.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000069/d67beb34d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000069/d67beb34d4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service Digital Image Archives","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guilford_Courthouse_National_Military_Park_GUCO0036.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service Digital Image Archives</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guilford_Courthouse_National_Military_Park_GUCO0036.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720634","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford_Courthouse_National_Military_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5615921"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/guilford-courthouse-national-military-park-66000069/"}