Greensboro, Georgia. The city of Greensboro is the county seat of Greene County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 3,359 as of the 2010 census.
Actor Andy Griffith, who played folksy Sheriff Andy Taylor in the fictional town of Mayberry, died Tuesday at the age of 86, his family said. Griffith died at about 7 a.m. at his home on Roanoke Island, according to Dare County, North Carolina, Sheriff J.D. Doug Doughtie.
The pilot of âThe Andy Griffith Show,â in February 1960, was actually an episode of âThe Danny Thomas Showâ in which Mr. Thomas, as Danny Williams, is arrested by a sheriff for running through a stop sign while driving through Mayberry.