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General Index
Abbreviations.
64
Advertisers -- Index.
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Alphabetical List of Names.
65
Apartment Buildings.
750
Associations and Clubs-Commercial
750
Banks.
Buildings~Office and Public
757
Business Directory (Classified)
749 29
Buyers' Guide.
Cemeteries
Chamber of Commerce.
Churches
City Courts
198
City Officials.
197 198 749
Classified Directory
761
Clubs.
763
County Officials
199
Halls.
779
Homes and Asylums
779
Hospitals.
780
Introduction.
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Labor Organizations
785
Libraries
787
Newspapers
792 795
Population
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Preface
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Savings and Loan Associations
803
Schools-Public
803
Schools, Colleges and Academies
803
Societies.
805
Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal
805
State Government. 408
Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders 589
United States Post Office.
535
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758 197 759 198
City Police Department
Clergymen
Parks.
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Index to Advertisers
Alexander Motor Co
left side lines and 32 34
Bache J S & Co.
52
Bain-Kimball-Milam Co
left side lines and
Bell Vern E.
. right bottom lines and
Bennett Machine Co
Blackley O R Plumbing Co
left top lines and
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Blacknall R & Son.
marginal line front cover and
40 54
Brame Specialty Co
. right side lines and
58
Budd-Piper Roofing Co
Camera Craft Studio. marginal line front cover and"~55
Carolina Heating & Engineering Co.
right side lines and
33
Carpenter Motor Co
right side lines and
Cash Coal Co
right top lines and
Clements W Wallace.
left bottom lines and
Delamar C F
Dixie Awning & 'Shade Co.
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Duke University
30
Duncan Margaret Advertising, Stenographic and Record Service
Durham Bond & Mortgage Co.
. marginal line front cover and
Durham Brazing & Welding Works.
back cover and 39
Durham Coca-Cola Bottling Co
backbone and 43
Durham Dairy Products Inc.
left bottom lines and
Durham Electric Construction Co
Durham Furniture Co Inc
left top lines and
Durham Loan & Trust Co.
Durham Paint. Co.
right top lines and
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Durham Public Service Co
left top lines and
56 60
Durham Shoe Rebuilders.
front cover and 35
Fidelity Bank The.
backbone and 36
First National Bank The.
.right bottom lines and 55
Five Points Loan Co
left bottom lines and
47
Ford Furniture Co
Fuel Oil Equipment Co
Fulford Realty Co.
Globe Jewelry Co Inc.
left bottom lines and
Griggs & Couch Inc
front cover, left top lines and
46
Hall-Wynne & Co.
. right side lines and 57
Haywood & Boone
right top lines and
Home Insurance Agency Inc.
.right top lines and 38
Home Savings Bank
33
Horton Motor Co.
Hotel Malbourne.
49 left top lines and left side lines and 33
Johnson Motor Co.
.left side lines and 53 56 52 31 32
Harris Dolian.
.right bottom lines and 45 50
Goodrich Silvertown Inc.
left top lines and 54
Durham Realty & Insurance Co
right bottom lin es and
45 47 36 38
Durham Industrial Bank
left top lines and 53 62
41 50 56 30 34
Cheek Insurance Agency
left side lines and 43
47 32 55
Borden Brick & Tile Co.
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Johnson-Prevost Dry Cleaning Co Inc.
left bottom lines and 40 Jourdan Transfer
left side lines and 61
Kane George W
front cover and 42
Lakewood Dairy
bottom stencil and
Latta E J Roofing Co Inc.
.right top lines and Lawrence Telphor H
Lougee W J Roofing Co
Lyon W C Co
Martha Washington Tea Room
. right bottom lines and
May Claude M.
marginal line front cover and
May D C.
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
Merchants Bank The
Modern Electric Co
Montgomery's Florist
Morris Plan Industrial Bank marginal line back cover and
Muirhead Wm Construction Co
marginal line back cover and
Mutual Life Ins Co of N Y.
Nicholson Motor Co.
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
right bottom lines and
44
Owl Pharmacy
left bottom lines and
Paschall Bros.
Permanent Wave Studio
Perry W P Transfer.
Piedmont Letter Shop Inc
Pritchard, Bright & Co.
Pullen A M & Co.
left side lines and 57
Reeves American Inn
Rochelle Sidney E.
left side lines and 39 31 53 49
Royal Ice Cream Co
left bottom lines and
41 2
Shaw Paint & Wallpaper Co.
marginal line back cover and 31
Southern Battery & Electric Co
right bottom lines and 40
Southgate J & Son Inc.
right top lines and
60
Tatlock Safety Signal.
left bottom lines and
51 32
U-Drive-It-Yourself Inc
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Washington Duke Hotel
back cover and 59
Young Roofing Co.
left top lines and 60
Zuckerman Solomon
back cover, 53 and 61 54 38 front stencil and 37 45 45 37 42 . top stencil and 49 51 34
Murdock J A Co Inc.
right side lines and
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56 38 61 52 41 30
Rochelle's Battery & Ignition Service
Rose Agency Inc The
right top lines and
Scott S T Coal Co.
Southern Cafeteria.
back cover and 50
Terry & Bullock Inc.
marginal line back cover and
44 58 43 59 47 57
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Introduction
Hill Directory Co., Inc., publishers of the Durham City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public this, the 1931, edition of the Durham Directory.
Confidence in the continued growth of Durham's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic 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 the estimation of the public has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, having 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 Durham Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
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 headings 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 an ambitious and pro- gressive community like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of in- formation immediately 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 588. (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 589 to 748. 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 749 to 812. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and pro- fessional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business
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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."
MUNICIPAL 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 more than 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-"Durham, a Center of Industry and Education."
Form of government-Council-Manager.
Population-Government census, 52,036.
White population of age-Males, 13,789; females, 15,767.
Total colored population-18,316.
Number of all males is 24,717, and of all females is 27,319.
Native-born population is more than 99% of whole population.
Predominating nationalities in city are American.
Area-12.8 square miles.
Altitude-406 feet.
Average temperature-59.6; rainfall, 47.19.
Parks-5, with 85 acres, valued at $100,000.00.
Free tax rate.
City's bonded debt is $12,072,000.00.
Financial-8 banks, 1 trust company, with total deposits of $21,068,644.87; resources, $26,147,324.68. and clearings of $151,414,229.82; debits to individual accounts annually, $326,904,012.00.
Post Office receipts of $231,034.71, with $4,393.00 in special deliveries; total, $231,- 034.71.
Telephones in service-5,775.
Churches-72.
Building and construction-Value of building permits, $1,052,961.00, with 166 new dwelling units constructed this year.
Real estate transfers total 1,495; number of homes, 10,216 (each apartment considered a home), with about 50 per cent owned by occupants.
Industry-Number of establishments, 85, employing 7,365 (U. S. Census), paying wages $6,089,384.00 annually, and having products valued at $138,224,445.00 annually (U. S. C'ensus).
Trade-Territory (retail) serves 148,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 25 miles. Jobbing territory serves 508,000 people within a radius of 50 miles.
Principal products-Smoking tobacco and cigarettes, silk and cotton hosiery, cotton piece goods and small tobacco bags.
Newspapers-Durham Morning Herald, Durham Sun (daily), Messenger and the Pic- ture Press (weekly).
Hotels-There are 9 hotels, with total of 800 rooms. Newest hotel was built in 1925. City served by 5 railroads, as follows: Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Durham and South- ern, Norfolk-Southern and the Norfolk and Western.
Amusements-There are 5 theatres, with a total seating capacity of 2,733 persons. Largest theatre or auditorium seats 1,750 persons.
Hospitals-4, with 767 heds.
Education-Duke University, Durham College of Commerce and North Carolina College for Negroes. Number of schools, 19, including 4 high schools, 1 parochial and diocesan school. Number of pupils in public schools, 11,088; in private schools, 95. Totals of all teachers is 351. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $3,142,158.00.
Libraries-4, with 278,753 volumes.
City statistics-Total street mileage, 205, with 75 miles paved and not any miles under construction or ordered. Miles of gas mains laid, 63; of sewers, 301; electric street rail- way, not any-buses are used-31 miles bus route. Capacity of water works (municipal), daily average pump of four and one-half million gallons, with 189 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $4,685,000. Fire department employs 47 men, with following equip- ment : 2 autos, 1 steamer and 5 triple combination trucks, 2 hook and ladder trucks in four station houses. Value of fire department with property is $252,189.10. Police depart- ment has 52 men, with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment.
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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 sur- rendered 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
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guerilla warfare, while others took the position that the cause of the Confederacy was for- ever 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 favor-
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able to the South that General Grant refused to approve it, but after several days' con- ference 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.
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.
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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, con- sisting 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 replacement. 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.
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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 busi- ness. 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.
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AIRPLANE VIEW SIIOWING EAST CAMPUS, DUKE UNIVERSITY, AND PART OF CITY OF DURHAM
James Buchanan Duke, becoming convinced that it was neither practicable nor profitable to compete with Bull Durham smoking tobacco, turned the vision of his great genius into the cigarette field, and from that day to the present hour the increasing volume of the to- hacco industry has become the common property of mankind.
In 1869, on April 10th, almost exactly four years after Johnston surrendered to Sherman, Durham was born. There was less than 258 inhabitants 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 to- bacco. While much of this type of tobacco was grown around Durham, it was sold at
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tobacco markets in Richmond and other Virginia cities, and our manufacturers had to pay the cost of transporting the tobacco back from Virginia to Durham. This condition made desirable the opening of warehouses for the sale of leaf 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 manufacturers, merchants, and the city and county governments, the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern Railway, and the Nor- folk and Western Railway were given access to this market. Later the Norfolk Southern
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Railroad and the Durham and Southern Railway were added to the number of railway 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 commercial 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 Uni- versity has a physical plant worth $20,000,000, more than 2,000 students, a 456-bed hos- pital, and ranks among the leading educational institutions of the nation.
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