12 new citizens naturalized at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
Under the Nathanael Greene monument, 12 people from 8 countries became U.S. citizens at a battlefield that shaped the Southern Campaign.
The lawn beneath the Nathanael Greene monument became a place of first civic belonging on Wednesday, May 27, when 12 new U.S. citizens from 8 countries were welcomed at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro. The ceremony, listed as free and set for 11 a.m. near Stop 8 on the park Tour Road, invited visitors to bring American flags and named Thomas Sobol as the contact.
The choice of site tied the oath to one of Guilford County’s most important historic landscapes. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park preserves the battlefield of March 15, 1781, where General Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis faced off in a fight the National Park Service says changed the course of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. The park’s 29 monuments and gravesites include the Greene monument, one of its two most recognizable memorials, making it a charged backdrop for a ceremony about becoming part of the nation’s civic future.
That local symbolism lands in a county where immigration is already part of daily life. Guilford County’s population is 558,816, and about 11.8% of residents were foreign-born in the latest ACS-based profile. In Guilford County Schools, more than 118 languages are spoken in classrooms, with more than 142 student cultural and ethnic groups represented. For employers across Greensboro, High Point and the surrounding county, that mix shapes the labor pool and customer base; for schools, it means multilingual support is not peripheral but central to how families are served.
The ceremony also pointed to a larger civic shift. Guilford County listed 390,475 registered voters as of April 1, 2026, a number that grows whenever new citizens take the final step USCIS describes as the oath of allegiance. USCIS and the National Park Service have partnered on naturalization ceremonies at historic sites since 2006, welcoming thousands of new citizens at parks, monuments and other protected places. Under Greene’s monument, that national tradition met a county whose schools, workplaces and voter rolls are increasingly shaped by people born far beyond North Carolina.
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