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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, (publishers of the Ahoskie City Directory since 1959) present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1961 edition of the Ahoskie City Directory, which also includes the Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Ahoskie's industry, popu- lation and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Ahoskie to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co- operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Ahoskie Direc- tory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic informa- tion pertaining to the community.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the follow- ing order :-
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major de- partment of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of the city and vicinity, arranged in alphabetical or- der under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city and vicinity. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to pre- sent a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a progressive community like Ahoskie, the neces- sity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the com- mon intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, in- dustrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Ahoskie, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the community.
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III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUD- ING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major de- partment, printed on green paper. In this section the num- bered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in nu- merical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the num- bers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this department are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers ..
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fourth major department.
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PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Ahoskie Beauty Shop right top lines and 11
Ahoskie Feed & Fuel Co Inc left top lines and 38
Ahoskie Hardware Co backbone, right bottom lines, 15 and 28
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Ahoskie Laundry
Ahoskie Meat & Provision Co Inc
Ahoskie Tire Service left bottom lines and 35
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Atlantic Discount Corp left bottom lines and 7 Belk-Tyler Co left top lines and 13
Bobo's Esso Service
front cover, left bottom lines and 40 Boone's Pharmacy ...... back cover, right top lines and 18
Boyette Dan Agency Inc The
left bottom lines and 31
Brett's Gulf Service front cover and 41
Bryan W H Distributor
back cover, left top lines, 36 and 37
Capps Drug Co Inc front cover, right bottom lines and 19
Copeland Drug Co Inc
front cover, right top lines and 20
Earley Co Inc The right bottom lines and 22
First Baptist Church 14 Harrell's Pastry Shoppe
front cover, left bottom lines and 8
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Hunter's Funeral Home right bottom lines and 24
Jernigan L S & Son right bottom lines and 22
Jernigan Oil Co right bottom lines and 23 35
Jones H T Lumber Co
Joyner's Radio-Television Service
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Manhattan Cafe right bottom lines and 39
Martin-Odom Motors right side lines and 4
Modernistic Beauty Shop front cover and 9
Nancy's Beauty Shop left bottom lines and 10
O'Berry's Sunoco Service
front cover, right top lines and 42. Powell Mutual Insurance Agency
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Rawls Chester G. left bottom lines and 34 3
Rawls & Winstead Inc
Reynolds Funeral Home left side lines and 25
Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
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Sears, Roebuck and Co right side lines and 16 5 Sessoms Brothers left top lines and Sharp Cabinet Shop back cover and 12 Standard Chevrolet Co Inc left side lines and 6
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Thornton's ..... front cover, right top lines, 2 and 27 Walker Drug Co Inc back cover and 21 Whedbee-Britton Hardware Co Inc left bottom lines and 29
AHOSKIE
"THE TRADING CENTER OF THE ROANOKE CHOWAN SECTION"
STATISTICAL REVIEW
(Several people contributed statistics. Parts of the history came from the 1959 Edition of the Milestone Edition of the Hertford County Herald, our local bi-weekly newspaper.)
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Mayor-Council-Manager. Incor- porated as a town in 1893.
POPULATION-1950 U. S. Census, 3,579; 1960 U. S. Census, 4,583. Between the ages of 18 and 64; Males 1,159; females 1,393. Non-white of total population 41.1%. American-born population is 99.8% of the total. Predominating nationality of foreign-born residents is Greek. Ahoskie has 1,682 school age children 18 years and under.
AREA-1.50 square miles.
ALTITUDE-60.023 feet above sea level.
CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature 65.5 degrees F .; aver- age annual rainfall 45 inches.
PARKS-1, with total of one-third acre. (Privately owned, but maintained by town.)
ASSESSED VALUATION-$6,750,000, with $1.70 per $100 tax rate. (30% assessment valuation.)
BONDED DEBT-$328,000.00.
FINANCIAL DATA-2 banks, with total deposits of $32,987,- 596.94 (April, 1961); Total resources of $36,372,536.90 (April, 1961). 1 building and loan association, with total assets of $800,000.00 (December, 1960).
POSTAL RECEIPTS-$79,729.56 (December, 1960).
TELEPHONES IN SERVICE-(Through April, 1961) Ahoskie Exchange 2,285.
CHURCHES 9, representing 7 denominations.
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-55 building permits issued in 1960, valued at $419,650.00.
INDUSTRY-Chief industry within the city and surrounding area: Tobacco marketing, lumber and lumber products, insecticides, pickle and relish plant, children's garments, pleasure craft boats, commercial printing and aluminum extrusion. 16 industrial plants employing 850 men and 400 women, paying wages of $2,575,000, annually, and hav-
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ing products valued at $4,375,000 annually as per report covering the year 1960. Principal manufactured products: lumber and lumber products.
TRADE AREA-Retail area has radius of 20 miles and popu- lation of 50,000. Wholesale area has radius of 75 miles.
NEWSPAPERS-1 daily (printed locally) 2 daily and Sunday; (printed in Norfolk, Va.); 1 daily and Sunday (printed in Raleigh, N. C.); 1 semi-weekly (printed locally).
RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS-1, WRCS.
HOTELS-1 with total of 54 rooms. 2 motels with total of 52 beds, 1 swimming pool.
RAILROADS-1, Atlantic Coast Line, running 2 trains daily from Norfolk to Rocky Mount, N. C., for freight only.
HIGHWAYS-U. S. No. 13 running north and south; State 350 north and south; 305, east and west.
AIRPORTS-1 privately owned. Planes can be chartered from private individuals.
AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATIONS-1,300 (1960).
AMUSEMENTS-Largest auditorium in city seats 825 persons (White High School). 2 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 1,500 persons. 1 golf course. Bath- ing, boating, skiing, fishing on Chowan River 10 miles dis- tant. High School Athletic Field with bleachers and lights. Well lighted baseball park with 2 diamonds, bleachers.
HOSPITALS-1, with total of 107 beds.
EDUCATION-Chowan Junior College 18 miles away at Mur- freesboro, N. C. 3 public schools, with 2 senior high schools. Number of pupils in public schools 2,969. Number of teachers in public schools 101. Value of public school property, $1,357,900.00.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES-1, with total of 5,400 volumes.
CITY STATISTICS-Total street mileage 20.34, with 13.37 miles paved. 25 miles of sewers. 1,625 water meters. Capa- city of water works 300,000 gallons, with daily average pumpage of 1,000,000 gallons. 20.25 miles of mains and plant valued at $75.000. Plans in the making for new sewer disposal plant to be in operation by March, 1963. Fire de- partment has 3 paid men, with 1 station and 5 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department real estate and equipment, $40,000. Police department has 7 men, with 1 station and 2 pieces of motor equipment. "Birth 594 *death 192. (*These figures for Hertford County for 1960).
FACTS ABOUT AHOSKIE, NORTH CAROLINA
Ahoskie, the youngest incorporated town in Hertford County, and the center of Hertford County's commercial and industrial life, is located between the Roanoke and Chowan
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Aerial view of Ahoskie showing the main business and indus- trial area.
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Showing sales being tabulated' at the Ahoskie Tobacco Market.
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Rivers, in the northeast section of North Carolina. The 1950 census showed a total population of 3,579. According to 1960 census it was 4,583, with a township population of approxi- mately 8,000.
This progressive town, ever on the alert for new ideas for growth, is the largest town in Hertford County, and can read- ily claim the title of "The Trading Center of the Roanoke- Chowan Section."
The main economy is derived from a large surrounding farming area, with the chief crops being tobacco, cotton, corn and peanuts. The first tobacco market was established here in 1907, and the present market, one of the largest one- set buyer markets in eastern North Carolina, with 6 warehouses covering an area of 235,000 square feet, gives quite a finan- cial boost to the area during the tobacco season.
Industry in Ahoskie is gradually replacing farming as the leading economy. Lumber and wood products lead in employ-
Ahoskie Manufacturing Company, one of Ahoskie's leading industries, makers of children's coats. 28,000 sq. ft. of floor space has been added to this building.
ment. The manufacture of children's garments, and all types of pleasure craft boats are an important part of our industrial progress. Like people of other towns and cities, the people in Ahoskie are beginning to realize the need for more industry to suppliment the farm income, and we are making every effort to raise the standard of living and to encourage new industries to locate in this area.
For a town of its size, Ahoskie is well favored with whole- sale establishments, being one of the largest wholesale distri- buting points per population in the world. There are 7 whole- sale houses here serving an area of more than 75 miles and employing between fifty and one hundred people each. The financial support from these firms adds quite a large sum to our income.
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In keeping with its slogan, Ahoskie has a better than aver- age quality of merchandise with 55 retail firms keeping pace with the modern trends. The store buildings are clean and progressive looking. Those who have not recently remodeled have repainted with bright cheerful colors. The theme is "Shop at home for quality and service."
Most important in the progress of this growing town are the many religious opportunities for its people. With its very beginning established with the coming of a church its people have not forgotten such a heritage. There are six Protestant denominations and one Roman Catholic church within the town limits, and a number of smaller churches in the sur- rounding area. The Protestant churches are: Baptist, Metho- dist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Church of Christ, Holiness, and Church of God.
Although not a rich county, Hertford as a whole is well advanced in modern education methods, and is proud that it ranks second in the State of North Carolina in scholastic rat- ing. Ahoskie has a large accredited high school, a 20 room elementary school, for white students, and an equally modern high school and elementary school for Negro students. Our high schools offer special courses and training in agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, business education, music and dramatics.
Huge pile of timber on the yard at Barrow Manufacturing Company ready to be dressed for material used in the many wood products made here.
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The Roanoke-Chowan Hospital. Another wing has recently been completed on the north end. This makes it a. 107 bed unit.
Complete hospital and medical facilities are available to the citizens of Ahoskie and surrounding area at the beautiful Roanoke-Chowan Hospital. Since its opening in 1948 with a 50-bed unit, it has expanded to 107 beds and 14 bassinets, with an adequate number of trained nurses. Seven of the 13 medical doctors on the hospital staff are specialists. There are 4 dentists and 2 optometrists with offices in Ahoskie. The Hertford County Health Department holds regularly scheduled clinics here each week, and an Orthopedic Clinic is sponsored 1 day each month by the Ahoskie Kiwanis Club.
Accommodations for tourists are the Garrett Hotel, lo- cated in the business section of Ahoskie; the Chief Motel, with 28 modern air conditioned rooms, and adequate parking space; the Tomahawk Motel, Ahoskie's newest, most modern 24 room unit, is currently adding a swimming pool to their fa- cilities.
Dining facilities are available at the Tomahawk Restau- rant on Highway 13, North, across from the Tomahawk Motel. In the downtown area the Manhattan Cafe and The Garrett Hotel are ready to serve noon and evening dinners.
Ahoskie has had the Town Manager form of government since November, 1957, and it has been most effective. The governing body consists of: Mayor, five Councilmen, and Town Manager, with the Councilmen and Mayor elected at large for two-year terms.
The financial status of Ahoskie is very good. The pres- ent bonded indebtedness is $328,000. A bond issue was passed in August of 1958 to make possible a much needed street im-
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provement program, and to add another deep well to the town water system. A new sewer disposal plant will be in operation by March, 1963. This should take care of several years of expansion and growth. The present tax rate for the town is $1.70 per $100, based on 30% of true market value.
The town police force consists of 7 uniformed men. The patrol cars are fully equipped with two-way radios, and the State Highway Patrol maintains offices in a new building two miles from the corporate limits.
The town also maintains a volunteer Fire Department with 3 paid employees and twenty-five volunteer firemen, who man four pieces of modern equipment and a booster tank truck. The present insurance rate is 7.
Another interesting feature of Ahoskie is its number of active civic organizations, who are constantly working for the benefit of the community. Through their efforts we have a beautiful landscaped cemetery; a supervised summer recrea- tion program, consisting of swimming classes, little league, Pony League and American Legion Junior baseball teams, a large play area for small children with swings and sand boxes; a picinc area with outdoor fire places and tables; a large well-lighted high school athletic field with bleachers; a newly lighted baseball park for the use of all baseball teams; an outstanding 70-member high school band; and many other worthwhile projects too numerous to mention.
Since 1923 Ahoskie has been very fortunate in having (most of the time) either a Chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade. The public spirit of the citizens connected with the different Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade have entered into and worked for all the improvements and developments of the town, and have been responsible for a great deal of its progress and growth. The efforts of those loyal men who have worked with these organizations in the past and those who are still working for the present and future of our town, will not have been in vain.
The present Chamber of Commerce is a most active and progressive organization. It serves not only its membership, but invites inquires from both individuals and business firms. The Chamber takes pride in spreading the Ahoskie Story, and we are happy to serve you.
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The National Guard Armory completed in August, 1954.
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Ahoskie is known far and wide, not only for its unusual name, but for its friendliness to strangers and its benevolence to the less fortunate. We extend a warm welcome to all, whether passing through, or seeking a place to live, work, trade or play. The people who have lived here know that its possibilities for future growth are unlimited. We are proud of our heritage from the past; we are ever conscious of the present; and are constantly planning for the future.
Story written by Mrs. Jean M. Tayloe, Secretary to Mana- ger of Ahoskie Chamber of Commerce, February, 1959. Re- vised May, 1961.
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