In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

Montgomery County is a sustaining member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.

However, Triangle-area fans balked at making the drive down I-40 to Greensboro, and fans from the Piedmont Triad mostly refused to support a lame-duck team that had displaced the longtime Greensboro / Carolina Monarchs minor-league franchise.

Greensboro is served by Piedmont Triad International Airport, which also serves the nearby cities of High Point and Winston-Salem as well as the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region.

The Business Journal, a member of the American City Business Journals chain of business weeklies, is based in Greensboro and covers business across the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region.

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Commercial flights are available through Piedmont Triad International Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

Yadkin County is part of the Piedmont Triad radio and television market but many broadcasts from the Charlotte market also can be received.

The whole county is generally considered part of the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area.

Rockingham County is a member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.

Randolph County is a member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.

Person County offers a strategic location for business and industry, as it is within an hour ’ s drive of North Carolina's two major economic centers, the Research Triangle Park ( Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh ) and the Piedmont Triad ( Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point ), and a two-hour drive of Richmond, Virginia.

The county is part of the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area.

Guilford County is a member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.

Davidson County is a member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.

Caswell County is a member of the regional Piedmont Triad Council of Governments.

Burlington is a short drive to Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville.

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Lexington is part of the Piedmont Triad region of the state.

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* Clemmons, population 18, 627, is part of the " Piedmont Triad " and the Greensboro / Winston-Salem / High Point Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.

After spreading desolation through North Italy and striking terror into the citizens of Rome, Alaric was met by Stilicho at Pollentia, today in Piedmont.

North of Denver it flows through the agricultural heartland of the Piedmont ( a shale region that was formed through erosion by the ancestor of the river following the creation of the Rockies ).

Amtrak's daily Crescent, Carolinian and Piedmont trains connect Greensboro with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans.

To the north, the land drops into the Great Valley of Virginia, to the south, the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Yadkin County is located in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina.

Beginning in 2006, the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation ( PART ) began offering limited bus service between Boone, North Carolina and Greensboro, North Carolina as part of its US 421 Mountaineer Express.

Wilkes County's terrain gradually becomes more level and less hilly as one moves to the east ; the far eastern section of the county lies within the Piedmont region of North Carolina.

Wake County is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the North American Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet.

Its central Piedmont location situates the county about three hours west of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, by car and four hours east of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Surry County is located both within the Piedmont region of central North Carolina and in the Appalachian Mountains region of western North Carolina.

The county lies within the Piedmont region of western North Carolina, and most of the terrain consists of gently rolling countryside.

Randolph County is located in the Piedmont section of central North Carolina, a region of gently rolling hills and woodlands.

Person County is a county located in the Piedmont region in north-central North Carolina in the United States.

McDowell County lies within the Piedmont ( United States ) and Foothills ( North Carolina ) regions of Western North Carolina.

Iredell County is located within the Piedmont Region of central North Carolina.

Gaston County is a county located just west of Charlotte ( Mecklenburg County ) in the southern Piedmont in the U. S. state of North Carolina.

The county is located in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina, which consists of gently rolling terrain frequently broken by hills, river and creek valleys, and low, isolated mountain ridges.

Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 ( Johns Hopkins University Press ; 2011 ) 248 pages ; examines how marketing, technology, and demand figured in the rise of Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco, a variety first grown in the inland Piedmont region of the Virginia-North Carolina border.

The Roanoke Gap proved a useful route for immigrants to settle the Carolina Piedmont region.

The first European settlers in the Carolina Piedmont, traditionally called the Upcountry, were Scots-Irish Presbyterians.

Orangeburg County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U. S. state of South Carolina.

Lancaster County () is a county located in the Piedmont of the U. S. state of South Carolina.

Local excavations reveal that Native American peoples made stone tools, using materials brought to present-day Robeson County from the Carolina Piedmont.

Due to the county's proximity to Virginia, the Carolina coast, and the Appalachian foothills, a wide variety of Southern American English dialects can be heard, with Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern, South Midland, and African American Vernacular English the most common.