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Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, Including Rural Route Residents, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory and Much Information of a Miscellaneous
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories (Publishers of the Belmont City Directory since 1941), present to subscribers and the general public, this the 1961 edition of the Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley City Directory, which also includes Alba Town, Brown- town, Catawba Heights, McAdenville, North Belmont, Spring- wood and Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of their civic and social activities, will be main- tained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Di- rectory is a mirror truly reflecting Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by render- ing the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organiza- tion, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the publish- ers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the ap- proval of every user, and that the Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authetic information pertaining to the communities.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following 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 con- cerns of Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley, ar- ranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of these communities. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individ- uals desiring to present 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 sup- ply or markets for goods. In progressive communities like Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always im- mediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an impor- tant role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major
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department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupa- tion and address of each adult resident of Belmont, Cramer- ton, Mount Holly, Stanley, Alba Town, Catawba Heights, Mc- Adenville, North Belmont and Springwood and the name of- ficial personnel, nature and address of each firm and corpora- tion.
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 resi- dences and business concerns are arranged in numerical or- der under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respec- tive crossing points on each street. Special features of this sec- tion 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.
Community Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a man- ufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as per- petual and reliable advertisements of Belmont, Cramerton, Mount Holly and Stanley.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
Page Abernethy Electric Co right top lines and 58 Acme Petroleum & Fuel Co Inc front cover, left bottom
lines, left and right center lines, 76, 77 and American Academy of Hair Styling 29
91
Andy's Auto Service. right side lines and 8
Archer "Fix-Um" Shop
17
Armstrong's Boat Landing left bottom lines and 32
17 Austin's Body Shop B & S Machine Co Inc left side lines and 134 103
Bailey's Stonewall Motel
Ballard H F & Son
left top and right bottom lines and 109
Bank of Belmont The
front cover, left and right side lines, 24 and 25
Barkley Machine Works. left side lines and 135 Barlowe Painting Co
Insert at name in Alphabetical Section and 110 Barlowe W J & Sons Tank Service
131 Belk-Matthews Co
front cover, right top lines, 46 and 62
Belmont Abbey College ..... right top lines, B and 127
Belmont Chamber of Commerce ...... left side lines and 42
Belmont Cleaners Inc back cover and 43
Belmont Electric Co left top lines and 68
Belmont Finance Co Inc. left top lines and 102
Belmont Marine Center 32
Belmont Plumbing Co. 114
Belmont Savings & Loan Assn. right side lines and 124 Belmont Sheet Metal Works ...... right side lines and
93 Beveridge H & Co
front lip margin, right side lines, 136 and 137 Black Monroe
114 Bradley Flyer & Repair Co ... ... left bottom lines and 138 Brewer Realty Co
back lip margin, right side lines, 116 and 117 Brotherton Exterminating Co 70
Carolina Sales Co 33
Carothers Funeral Home
back cover, left side lines, 5 and 81
Carter Electric Co
Charlie's Used Cars 18
Cherry Electric ...... front cover, left top lines, 52 and
67
Citizens National Bank The back cover,
Insert at name in Alphabetical Section, 26 and 100 132 City Cab left side lines and 37
City Supply Co
City Wrecker Service & Garage
right side lines and 22
Cobb Trucking Co
147 Consolidated Credit Corp. left top lines and 101
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Page Cox's Fish Fry right bottom lines and 122 Craig Realty & Development Co right side lines and 118
Credit Bureau of Belmont
42
Crossroads Cafe. left top lines and 122
D & W Lunch Bar 123
Davison G W Funeral Home 82
Deedy's Cloth Store left bottom lines and 45
Dellinger Exterminating Inc
Insert at name in Alphabetical Section and 69
Dixon Block Co Inc
.back cover, left and right center lines, 38 and 50
Dixon Motor Co Inc
right side lines and 10
Dixon Properties Inc. 119
Duke Power Co.
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Elmore Insurance & Realty Co
right center lines and 120
Esther's Florist & Gift Shop 72
Featherstone's Service Station left side lines and 11
Finger Brothers Inc left side lines and 60
First State Bank & Trust Co
.backbone, right side lines and 27
First Union National Bank. left side lines and 28 Fite & Bumgardner Funeral Home Inc .bottom stencil, right side lines and 83
Fite Furniture Co
front cover, left side lines, 7 and 84
Floor Finishing & Tile Co left side lines and 71
Ford W R Hardware right top lines and 93
Forney Bros Masonry Contractors
right side lines and 61
Fowler H L Insurance Agency right side lines and 97
Frank's Finance Co right side lines and 102
Freeman's Esso Servicenter left top lines and 12
Gaston County Dyeing Machine Co
left side lines and 139
Gastonia Floor Sanding & Tile Co 72
Gastonia Gazette The
front cover, left side lines and 106 Gastonia Sheet Metal Works left bottom lines, 4 and 123
Gastonia United Oil Co Inc back cover, right top lines, A and 78
Gazette Publishing Co Inc front cover, left side lines and 106
129
Green Sign
Grier Cleaners '& Laundry Inc
42
Groner's Texaco Service left side lines and 13
Hand's Fish Fry 70
Hansel's Alinement 18
Henkel Concrete Co Inc
front cover, right top lines 51 and 57
Hill Directory Co Inc
Hinson's Inc right top lines and 89
64
Holland Drug Co left bottom lines and 65 Kendrick Brick & Tile Co Inc
right top lines and
35
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Kimbrell's of Belmont
85 89
Kimbrell's of Mount Holly
Kleenmaster Service
L & 'S Sales & Service
Lakewood Motor Sales & Service
right side lines and X
Land Termite '& Pest Control
133
Leazer's Dock Auto Electric ...... left center lines and
15
Lee Ann Beauty Shop left side lines and 30
Lee W D & Co left bottom lines and 140
Lineberger James R
59 53
Loftin Richard L.
left top and bottom lines and
Long Jim Inc. right center lines and
94
M & M Auto Parts & Service. ..... left bottom lines and Mack's Tire Service.
19
Mann Construction Co
back cover,
left side and right bottom lines, tabbed
Insert at name in Alphabetical Section, 36 and 54 Marlene's Flower School. left bottom lines and 73
Martin's Funeral Home
Mary Carter Paints right bottom lines and 108
6 McCall Brothers Pump and Well Company
right side lines and 148
McClure Lumber Co right center lines and 39
McGee Jewelers
145 90
McKee Sales Co
Mervin's Auto Electirc Inc. ... right center lines and 20
Mickey's Beauty Shop
31
Montbell Ice & Fuel Co left top lines and 74
Moon's Fish Camp left bottom lines and 71
Mount Holly - City Of
left and right bottom lines and 105
Mt Holly Funeral Home
back cover, left side lines, 5 and 81 Mount Holly Launderette ...... right bottom lines and 99
Murphy Jim Service Co
20 Mutual Building & Savings Assn
backbone, left side lines and 125
Nelle's right bottom lines and
48
Norris Engineering
34
Norris Supply & Machine Co left side lines and 34
North American Van Lines
104
Piedmont Machine Shop Inc .... .right side lines and 141
Pinnacle Electirc Co right center lines and 68.
Poole W A Trucking. right side lines and 146.
Pure Oil Co The (Dixon Oil Co)
front stencil, right side lines and 79
Quality Store The
47
R & W Shoe Repairing
128
Rabb Florist right top lines and 73 Y
Rainbow Paint Store
Rankin-Armstrong Co Inc left top lines and 86
Rankin L S & Sons Inc 80
Rawlings-Lyda Co Inc 87 Rayfield & Stewart Inc.
left top lines and 142
Rhyne Leonard A Co. 107
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Rhyne & Simmons Owners Jenkins Reneedling Co
Inc ...... ribbon book mark, right bottom lines and 143 River Valley Chevrolet Co ............ right side lines and 21
Riverbend Township Merchants Assn Inc right bottom lines and 49
Roseberry's Wrecking Service
41
Rudisill Brothers Co Inc
94
Sacred Heart Junior College
right bottom lines, C and 128
St Leo's Junior Military School
right top lines and 126
Seth Builders Supply Inc .top stencil, left side lines, 40, 55, 95 and 103
Shepherd's Jewelry. ..... back cover, left top lines and 98
Shuford J Fred right side lines and 56
Smith E E & Son Inc right side lines and 144
Smith, Wilson & Minges Co
left bottom lines, 3 and 115
Southern Precision Spring Co Inc
.back cover, right side lines and 130
Southpoint Realty Co Inc left center lines and 121
Stowe Mercantile Co
Summerrow Furniture Co. 88
Taylor Motors Inc. left side lines and 16
Thermo Control Service Inc.
4
Turner Painting Service. right bottom lines and 111
Village Mobile Homes. right bottom lines and 145
Vogue The right bottom lines and 48
W CG C Central Broadcasting Co
right side lines and 2
Wade's Grocery 92
Watkins Pharmacy Inc
front cover, left top lines and 66
Watson Insurance Agency Inc. 96
Williams E S & Sons right center lines and 112
Wilson & Satterfield 92
Young Mercantile Co Inc. 95
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BELMONT
(Courtesy Belmont Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Aldermanic (City), Mayor and five Commissioners elected at large.
POPULATION-1960 U. S. Census, 5,007 Greater Belmont, 12,000.
AREA-1.7 square miles.
ALTITUDE-676.5 feet above sea level.
CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature, 60 degrees F .; aver- age annual rainfall, 50 inches.
RECREATION-7 parks with total of thirty (30) acres. Athlet- ic stadium seats 4,000.
ASSESSED VALUATION-$15,000,000.
BONDED DEBT-$280,000.
FINANCIAL FACTS-June 30, 1956, 1 bank with total re- sources of $15,000,000; 1 building and loan association with assets of $8,122,814.80.
POSTAL RECEIPTS-$113,291.91 (Fiscal year ending June 30, 1960).
TELEPHONES IN SERVICE-3,257.
CHURCHES-40, representing all denominations.
INDUSTRY-Chief industry is the manufacture of textiles and both men's and women's hosiery. 30 plants, employing 6,500 workers, paying wages of more than $15,000,000.00 annually.
TRADE AREA-Radius of 3 miles with 18,000 population. NEWSPAPERS-Belmont has one weekly newspaper, and is served by a number of daily papers.
MOTELS-Several modern motels are located in or near Bel- mont.
RADIO STATIONS-Radio Station WCGC, operating on 1,000 watts, serves Mt. Holly, Cramerton and Belmont.
RAILROADS-Southern Railway and Piedmont and Northern serve Belmont.
HIGHWAYS-U. S. 29 ad 74; State 7 and 273 and Interstate 85.
AIRPORTS-3 near by.
AMUSEMENTS-Largest Auditorium (High School) 1,000 Ca- pacity. 3 moving picture theatres, 6 golf courses in vicin- ity.
EDUCATION-Belmont Abbey College-a four year college for men; Sacred Heart Academy, a Junior College for
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Women; and St. Leo's School for Boys are located here. 9 public schools, including 2 high schools and 2 parochial schools. Number of students in public schools, 3,570; num- ber of teachers in public schools 123; number in parochial 54. Value of public school property, $1,500,000; parochial $50,000; colleges $2,000,000; North Carolina Vocational School with 300 students and 10 teachers, valued at $500,- 000.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES-1, with 6,500 volumes, access to Cen- tral Library with 103,874 volumes.
CITY STATISTICS-Street mileage 20, with 18 miles paved and 2 miles secondary streets; miles of sewers, 26; num- ber of water meters, 1,250; light meters, 3,500. Daily ca- pacity of water works, 5,000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 1,500,000 gallons; miles of mains, 22. Fire de- partment has 3 full time firemen and 20 volunteers; two modern fire trucks, hose and apparatus value at $30,000. Police department has ten men operating from one sta- tion.
General Review
Belmont is located in what is known as the South Point section of Gaston County. This section is formed by the junc- tion of the South Fork River with the Catawba River. Belmont is the second largest town in Gaston County. Two hundred years ago this section was inhabited by thousands of the tribe of Catawba Indians, and it is from this tribe that the river which divides Mecklenburg and Gaston counties gets its name.
No section of Gaston County is richer in history than this section, in which Belmont is located. During the War of the Revolution, Major Wm. Chronicle, from this section, together with many from South Point, fought in the battle of Kings Mountain and in other important engagements of the war.
Many from this section, with family names now prom- inent in Gaston County, served in the Civil War. The same was true in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the World War of 1917 and 1918, and of those who served in World War 2 and the Korean War.
An example of the rich history of this section is the monu- ment, near Belmont, erected on what is alleged to be the spot where Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, lived with her uncle, Dicky Hanks, during her girlhood, before marry- ing Thomas Lincoln and moving to Kentucky. The monument is of granite, and stands in South Point Township of Gaston County, a mile from Belmont, on the farm formerly owned by the late C. T. Stowe. It was erected by descendants of Mr. Stowe.
The Southern Railway built its road through this section in the early 1870's, and this hitherto agricultural section soon became a trading center of much importance. In 1878, leaders of the Order of St. Benedict, with Leo Haid as director found-' ed a monastery here, which is known as the Belmont Abbey, and about that time this trading center was named "Garibal- di." In 1895, by an act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, Belmont became an incorporated town with a popu- lation of approximately 100.
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During the 65 years that have come and gone since then, the town has grown rapidly. In 1900 the population of Belmont was 145; in 1910, 1,176; in 1920, 2,941; in 1930, 4,121, and the Census of 1950, gave the town a population of 5,330.
This community, known as "Greater Belmont," has a population of approximately 12,000.
Belmont is primarily a manufacturing town. In its trade territory there are 30 manufacturing establishments, employ- ing 6,500 men and women and having a payroll in excess of $15,000,000 annually. The majority of these plants are spinning mills. Others include a dye plant, a processing and finishing plant, a silk-throwing plant, a plant for the manufacture of men's hosiery, two plants manufacturing full-fashioned ho- siery, a box factory, a lumber company and several knitting mills.
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View of North Main Street
The products of most of these manufacturing corporations are sold in every country in the world.
Belmont has an aldermanic form of government, with a mayor and five aldermen elected at large. Its finances are in excellent condition, the town having taxable property amount- ing to $15,000,000 and with a tax rate of only $1.05 per $100.
Belmont has all the conveniences found in the larger cities. It has twenty-six miles of sewer line. It has 18 miles of paved streets completed. It has 2 miles of secondary streets; over ten miles of concrete sidewalks; a modern water system; ad- equate departmental equipment, including 2 modern fire trucks tractors, trucks and other accessories; a community house and recreational center; a modern athletic field, includ- ing parks, tennis courts, football field, baseball field, and a stadium with a seating capacity of 4,000, representing an ex- penditure of more than $2,000,000 in permanent capital assets of the city.
Belmont is especially proud of its school system, consist- ing of nine buildings. The magnificent new high school building, occupied for the first time, in the fall of 1940, cost more than $200,000. The system employs 142 teachers and has a total enrollment of 4,222 students. Four years ago Belmont citizens voted a supplementary tax for the operation of the nine-month term.
Numerous championship athletic teams and dramatic and forensic groups have been produced at Belmont High School and at Belmont Abbey. Two years after Belmont High School's band was organized, it won the national championship in its class at a national tournament in Richmond, Va., in the spring of 1941.
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