Hill's Durham (Durham County, N.C.) city directory [serial], Part 1

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CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS CONCERNS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS, AND A DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, OCCUPANTS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS AND BUSINESS PLACES, INCLUDING A COMPLETE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE;

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE

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Index to Advertisers

Pain-Kimball-Milam Co ..

Parker-Suggs Printery Inc

Classified Divider

l'ell Vern E.

left top lines and 47

Blacknall R & Son

left top lines and 44

Borden Brick & Tile Co. marginal line front cover and 38 40

Brown Ernest

Budd-Piper Roofing Co right side lines and

Camera Craft Studio marginal line front cover and 57

Carolina Heating & Engineering Co. left side lines and 43 31

Carolina Motor Rebuilding Co. left side lines and

Carpenter Motor Co

right side lines and

C'ash C'oal Co

right side lines and

41 52

Cheek Insurance Agency.

right top lines and

Christian-Harwood Furniture Co

marginal line front cover and

City Plumbing & Heating Co.

('ity Real Estate Co

('ity Transfer Co

right bottom lines and

Clements W Wallace.

Consolidated Construction & Bldg Co Inc. left top lines and

Delamar Christopher F

left bottom lines and 30

Duke University.

Duncan Margaret L Advertising Stenographie & Record Service,

Durham Bond & Mortgage Co

left top lines and 30 51 39

Durham Builders Supply Co

Durham Dairy Products Ine

Durham Electric Construction Co Ine

left bottom lines and

Durham Industrial Bank

backbone and 44 41 34 54 53

37 56

Durham Paint Co.

Durham Public Service Co. right top lines and 2 59 Durham Realty Ins Co left top lines and 35

Fidelity Bank The front cover and

First National Bank.

backbone and 36

Fuel Oil Equipment Co

see left side lines and

Fulford Realty Co ..

Gateway's Stores Inc.

Globe Jewelry C'o Ine.

Gloria IIcating Co.

right bottom lines and 40

Griggs & Couch Inc. Hall-Wynne & C'o Ine

front cover, opposite name in Alphabetical and

Harris Dolian. right side lines and 59

Home Building & Loan Assn. .left top lines and 40

Home Insurance Agency Inc. right top lines and 52

right top lines and 37

Home Savings Bank.

left bottom lines and

Greater Durham Bldg & Loan Assn.

55 50 56 53 55

Durham Iron Works.

Durham Laundry Co

Durham Loan & Trust Co left side lines and

left top lines and

48 58 58 62 58 43

Hotel Malbourne

left top lines and 51

Howerton R T & Sons Inc.

. back cover and 47

Johnson Motor Co left side lines and 32

Jones W. Murray. right side lines and 59 Jourdan Transfer. left side lines and 62

Kane Geo W.

Latta E J Roofing Co Inc.

bottom stencil and

Lawrence T H

.right top lines and

Lyon W C Co

Markham J C & Sons

. left side lines and

Martha Washington Tea Room.

May D C.

marginal line front cover and

McLaurin Funeral Home

Merchants Bank The

Messenger The.

Montgomery's Florist.

Morris Plan Industrial Bank.

right top lines and

Muirhead Wm Construction Co

top stencil and 42

Murdock J A Co Inc.

marginal line back cover and

Myers E M & Co. back cover and

Noell Bros Hardware Co.

right side lines and

Novelty Fur Co

right bottom lines and 48

Paschall Bros

.left bottom lines and 5S

Perry W P Transfer

. marginal line back cover and

Ray C D & Son.

right bottom lines and

Reeves' American Inn

left side lines and 60

Rochelle Sidney E.

left side lines and

Rose Agency Inc The

right top lines and

55 51

S & S Sales Co

marginal line back cover and

Servall Service Station.

right bottom lines and 32

Shearer W O Motor Co Inc.

left side lines and 34 2 31

Southern Battery & Electric Co

marginal line back cover and

Southern Paint & Glass Co

left bottom lines and 57

Southgate J & Son Inc.

left side lines and 53 41

Tyson George F.

U-Drive-It Yourself Inc.

Union Loan & Pawn Co Inc

Washington Duke Hotel.

Waverly Ice Cream Co Inc.

. Classified Divider

White's Funeral Home Inc.

back cover and 46

back cover and 61 Young Roofing Co The.

33 49 52

North Carolina Mutual Life Ins Co.

62 41 30 39

Pritchard, Bright & Co

Pullen A M & Co.

Royal Ice Cream Co

Smith Royal W

.front cover and 42 61 43 48 45

.right bottom lines and 60 56 front stencil and 46 36 55 45 right side lines and 37

Introduction

Hill Directory Co., Inc., publishers of the Durham City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public this, the 1930 edition, of the Durham City Directory.

Confidence in the continued growth of Durham's wealth, industry and population, and in the advancement of its municipal and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting the community to the world.

The enviable place occupied by Hill's directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, having the courteous and hearty co-opera- tion 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 Durham Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.

FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS

The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:

The Buyers' Guide, pages 29 to 64. printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Durham. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under head- ings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best and, as such, merits a survey by all buyers anxious to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The community's activities, in many interesting phases, are authentically pictured. In a great commercial center like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of information im- mediately available is very great and, frequently, pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.

The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and cor- porations is included in pages 65 to 692. (A feature of this section is the inclusion of the wife's name in parenthesis following that of the husband.)

The Directory of Householders, including Street and Avenue Guide, covers pages 693 to 832. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order; the residences and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.

The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 833 to 908. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and profes- sional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."

COMMUNITY PUBLICITY

The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, de- picting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial 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 perpetual and reliable advertisements of Durham, for business men everywhere realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.

THE DURHAM DIRECTORY LIBRARY

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Durham City Directory a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Chamber of Com- merce for free reference by the general public. This is one of nearly 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.

The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.

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Statistical Review

Name of City-Durham.

Slogan or sub-phrase-"Durham: A Center of Industry and Education."

Form of government-Council-Manager.

Population-United States Census, 52,036.

Area-12.8 square miles. Altitude-406 feet.

Assessed valuation-$82,000,000, with .0148 mill tax.

White population is 33,720. Colored population is 18,316.

White population of age (21 years and over) -- Males, 13,789; females, 15,767.

Number of all males is 24,717, and of all females is 27,319.

Native-born population is more than 99 per cent of whole population.

Predominating nationalities in city are American.

Parks number 3, with 37 acres, valued at $85,000.

City's bonded debt is $11,810,000.

Financial-8 banks, 1 trust company, with total deposits of $18,801,995; resources, $24,366,095.08, and clearings of $185,368,180.08 annually. Debits, $366,517,749.33, representing above banks.

Post Office receipts of $223,305.32, with $4,444.00 in special deliveries. Telephones in service-5,750.

Church buildings-71.

Building and construction-Value of building permits, $1,924,443.50, with 251 new dwelling units and 71 business units constructed during 1929. Real estate transfers total 1,838. Number of homes-10,050, with about 50 per cent owned.

Industry-Number of establishments, 65, employing 13,500 men and 2,500 women, paying wages $12,000,000 annually and having products valued at $130,000,000 annually.

Trade-Territory (retail) serves 148,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of twenty-five miles. Jobbing territory serves 508,000 people within a radius of fifty miles.

Hotels-There are 9 hotels, with total of 800 rooms. Newest hotel was

built in 1925.

City served by Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Durham and Southern, Norfolk Southern and Norfolk and Western Railroads.

Amusements-Largest theatre or auditorium seats 1,760 people. There are 4 theatres, with a total seating capacity of 2,357 people.

Hospitals-4, with 767 beds.

Education-Names of colleges, etc., Duke University, Durham College of Commerce, North Carolina College for Negroes. Number of schools, 19, including 4 high schools, 1 parochial and diocesan school. Number of pupils in public schools, 10,897. Total of all teachers is 349. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $3,142,158.00.

There are 184,637 volumes in the libraries of the city.

City statistics-Total street mileage, 202, with 73 miles paved, 21/2 miles under construction or ordered. Miles of gas mains laid, 63; of sewers, 301; served by bus lines, 31 miles bus route. Capacity of water works (muni- cipal), daily average pump of 412 million gallons, with 182 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $4,685,000. Fire department employs 48 men, with following equipment : 2 autos, 1 steamer and 5 triple combination trucks, 2 hook and ladder trucks, in 4 station houses. Value of fire de- partment with property is $252,189.10. Police department has 47 men, with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment.

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

In April, 1865, at a log cabin known as the Bennett Place, near Durham's Station, there occurred one of the most historic events in the history of our nation. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, and the future looked dark indeed for the Southern States. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet had escaped to Greensboro, North Carolina, and there had held fiery debate as to the advisability of continuing the Civil War. Some members of the cabinet favored continuing hostilities at any cost, even though it meant carrying on a guerilla warfare, while others took the position that the cause of the Confederacy was forever lost and that no good could be accomplished by further bloodshed. Finally it was decided to instruct General Joseph E. Johnston, Commander of the Confederate Armies of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, to negotiate terms of peace with General William Tecumsech Sherman, Commander of the Federal Army which had broken the backbone of the Confederacy by reason of its famous march to the sea. These two generals met at the Bennett Place and signed a tentative peace agreement. This agreement was so favorable to the South that General Grant refused to approve it, but after several days' conference it was amended to meet General Grant's demands and was signed and approved by the governments of the North and South, and the War Between the States came to a close.

VIEW OF MAIN STREET, LOOKING EAST

VIEW OF CITY HALL

Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been erected, through the generosity of Mrs. S. T. Morgan, a beautiful monument consisting of two columns, one representing the North and the other the South, joined together by a cross piece on which is the word Unity. This historic spot is visited each year by thousands of people as the birthplace of a reunited nation.

The death of the Confederacy gave birth to the city of Durham, and out of the ashes of the hopes of the Southern people has been built a great and beautiful city. In 1865 Durham Station was a small and insignificant point on the North Carolina Railroad, consisting of less than 100 people. There was one lone business enterprise here, a crude and unimportant tobacco factory with total assets of less than $2,000, including not only products on hand, but representing also the entire investment and re- placement. History and tradition unite in saying that this factory was broken into by Sherman's soldiers and a large part of the stock carried away. Tradition further says that the product carried away was so well made and of such quality that when the soldiers returned to the pursuit of · civil life letters came back to Durham to ascertain if there was more of the product upon the market. To supply this demand a broken business was rebuilt.

In 1865 Washington Duke, a Confederate soldier, walked from New Bern to his home in Durham, and with the same stout heart which had carried him through the vicissitudes of a lost cause, turned his attention to the battle for bread, which was doubtless as cruel and bitter as the war

from which he had returned. He built the second factory in Durham, composed of a log cabin 20x30 feet, and with his own hands manufactured a product out of a small supply of tobacco which the Federal soldiers had not found. This he called Pro Bono Publico. The output of this factory was originally four or five hundred pounds, and in 1872 had grown to 125,000 pounds.

In the meantime, W. T. Blackwell had moved to Durham to engage in the tobacco business. He was to the early development of the tobacco industry in Durham what Napoleon was to France, or Caesar to Rome. The Durham Bull got upon the map and in a few brief years his sonorous voice, like the shot at Lexington, was heard around the world. In 1872 the two small tobacco factories had grown into twelve.

James Buchanan Duke. becoming convinced that it was neither prac- ticable nor profitable to compete with Bull Durham smoking tobacco.

SCENE OF NEW CAMPUS

turned the vision of his great genius into the cigarette field, and from that day to the present hour the increasing volume of the tobacco industry has . become the common property of mankind.

In 1869, on April 10th, almost exactly four years after Johnston surren- dered to Sherman, Durham was born. There were less than 258 in- habitants in the village, and the total municipal revenue was the sum of $357.44. The largest taxpayer paid a sum of $40.62 in taxes. In 1870 there were probably less than 100 wage-earners in industrial pursuits in the town.

The tobacco industry grew at a very rapid rate, using large quantities of bright leaf tobacco. While much of this type of tobacco was grown around Durham, it was sold at tobacco markets in Richmond and other Virginia cities, and our manufacturers had to pay the cost of transporting the to- bacco back from Virginia to Durham. This condition made desirable the opening of warehouses for the sale of lead tobacco in Durham, and resulted in this city becoming one of the largest bright leaf tobacco markets in the world.

During all of this time there were no banks in the town, practically all of the banking being transacted in Raleigh, and on days of big sales at the tobacco warehouses it was necessary to obtain cash from the merchants in order to pay the farmer for his product. Such inconveniences could not long continue and soon two banks were established.

The next step in the industrial and commercial history of the town was the bringing in of additional railway lines. By the co-operation of manu- facturers, merchants, and the city and county governments, the Seaboard

NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY'S BUILDING

Air Line, the Southern Railway, and the Norfolk and Western Railway were given access to this market. Later the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the Durham and Southern Railway were added to the number of rail- way lines serving the city, giving a total of five railway companies with seven lines of railroad radiating in every direction.

The town of Durham had now grown into a very prosperous and thriving community, but its citizenship was not satisfied with having purely a com-

mercial and industrial town. The people felt the need of better schools and, in 1885, after a heated political campaign, bonds were voted for public school buildings and a tax levied for maintaining a public school system. To-day Durham has one of the finest public school plants of any city of its size, with physical property valued at more than $3,000.000 and with a personnel of teachers and management which gives it first rating among the cities of North Carolina.

In 1892 Trinity College, now Duke University, was brought to Durham through the philanthropy of Mr. Washington Duke and General Julian S. Carr. To-day Duke University has a physical plant worth $20,000,000. more than 2,000 students, a 400-bed hospital, and ranks among the lead- ing educational institutions of the nation.

As the tobacco industry grew and prospered, certain persons used some of their dividends in establishing cotton mills, and this industry soon as- sumed a position of importance in the industrial life of the city. Later hosiery mills were established, until to-day Durham ranks as the first city of the South in the manufacture of full-fashioned silk hosiery. Other

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industries were added from time to time, including flour mills, fertilizer plants, iron works, wood-working plants, printing establishments, etc., until in 1930 there are engaged in industry more than 16,000 wage-earners, producing $150,000,000 of manufactured products annually. These in- dustries pay into the Federal treasury approximately $70,000,000 each year.

In 1924 a program of civic improvement was undertaken, and although it was interrupted by the World War, it has now reached the point where Durham has all of the conveniences of a modern city, including complete sewerage, asphalt streets, paved sidewalks, electric power, gas, the latest dial telephone service, Western Union and Postal Telegraph service, Ameri- can Telegraph and Telephone repeater station, insuring rapid long-distance telephone communication, a fine recreation program, and a system of water works with an impounding reservoir sufficient to care for the needs of a city of 100,000 people.

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Hill's Durham (Durham County, N.C.) city directory [serial], Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Richmond, Va. : Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 916

Author:
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 916