Hill's Gastonia (Gaston County, N.C.) city directory [1936], Part 1

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INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1936 edition of the Gastonia City Directory.

Confidence in the growth of Gastonia's industry, pop- ulation 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 Gastonia 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 organi- zation, and having had the courteous and hearty coopera- 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 Gastonia Di- rectory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic infor- mation pertaining to the city.

Four Major Departments

The four major departments are arranged in the follow- ing order :-

THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 29 to 50, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufactur- ing, business and professional interests of Gastonia. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive com- munity like Gastonia, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General ap- preciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 51 to 346. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Gastonia, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.

THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, covers pages 347 to 417. In this section the names of the strets are arranged in alpha- betical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersect- ing streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 419 to 463. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order un- der appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an in- valuable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests

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of the community. The Directory is the common intermedi- ary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and profession- al world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classi- fied Business Directory than through any other medium.

Municipal Publicity

The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manu- facturing 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 Gastonia.

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GASTONIA

"THE COMBED COTTON YARN MANUFACTURING CENTER OF AMERICA"

(Courtesy Gastonia Chamber of Commerce)

Statistical Review

Form of Government-City manager-council.

Population-Total, 17,093; males, 8,243; females, 8,850; total colored, 3,207; white males of age, 3,434; white females of age, 3,726 (1930 U. S. Census). Local estimate at present, 22,000. American-born, 99.3%.

Area-4.3 square miles.

Altitude-825 feet above sea level.

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 60.2 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 46.05 inches.

Parks-1, with 20 acres, valued at $10,000.

Assessed Valuation-$17,501,553, with $1.25 per $100 tax rate.

Bonded Debt-$2,874,000.

Financial Facts-2 banks, with total deposits of $3,000,- 000 (March 31, 1936), and total resources of $3,700,000 (March 31, 1936). 3 building and loan associations, with total assets of $950,000 (March 31, 1936).

Postal Receipts-$73,589.39 (calendar year 1935).

Telephones in Service-2,350.

Churches-29, representing 12 denominations.

Industry-Chief industry of city and surrounding terri- tory: Cotton goods manufacturing. 82 manufacturing estab- lishments, employing 5,500 men and 6,200 women, and pay- ing wages of $7,000,000 annually (Greater Gastonia survey, 1933). Principal manufactured products: Cotton yarns, tire fabric, sewing thread, labels, rugs, upholstery fabric, textile machinery, mattresses, rayons, silks, bedspreads and cro- cheting thread.

Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 25 miles, and population of 200,000; wholesale area, radius of 75 miles, and population of 1,341,000.

Newspapers-1 daily.

Hotels-4, with total of 233 rooms.

Railroads-3: Southern, Carolina & Northwestern and Piedmont & Northern.

Highways-U. S. 29, 74 and 321; State 16 and 20.

Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 1,654 per- sons. 5 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 3,158 persons. 2 golf courses.

Hospitals-3, with total of 275 beds.

Education-9 public schools, including 1 high for white pupils and 1 high for colored pupils. Number of pupils in public schools, 5,919; teachers, 141. Value of public school property $1,525,000.

Public Libraries-1, with 9,000 volumes.

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City Statistics-Total street mileage, 54.43, with 25.43 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 30.5; sewers, 48.51; electric street railway, 4. Number of water meters, 2,800; light met- ers, 2,867; gas meters, 842. Capacity of water works, 4,500,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 1,500,000 gallons; miles of mains, 65.5; value of plant, $1,061,210.17. Fire department has 16 men, with 2 stations and 7 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $39,995. Police depart- ment has 20 men, with 1 station and 4 pieces of motor equipment.

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The Heart of Growing Gastonia's Business District

Gastonia, a City of Humming Industry

Gastonia, incorporated in 1876, and known as "The South's City of Spindles," is the capital of Gaston County, "The Combed Cotton Yarn Manufacturing Center of Ameri- ca."

These sobriquets are not fanciful and fictitious, but founded on facts. With 42 cotton textile plants in which 600,000 spindles hum daily, Greater Gastonia is, in fact, the premier municipality in the South as regards spindles. By the same token, Gaston County, with 104 textile mills, most- ly making yarns, produces approximately 80% of all the fine combed cotton yarns manufactured in the U. S.

Gaston's History a Romance

Romance is woven into the warp and woof of Gaston County's history. Heralded far and wide scarcely more than a generation ago as the banner whiskey manufacturing county of the Carolinas, it has been transformed within the

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memory of middle-aged men into a cotton textile manufac- turing center that has challenged the attention of the world.

Today, instead of the 48 distilleries of forty years ago, we find 104 textile plants, the largest number in any county in the U. S. Gaston County ranks third in the nation in the number of producing spindles and sets the pace for the world in the making of fine combed cotton yarns. It was a pioneer in the state in the enactment of dry laws, and in the build- ing of good roads, good schools and good churches.

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One of Gaston County's Modern Combed Cotton Yarn Plants

Gastonia, a crossroads village fifty years ago, has be- come one of the important industrial cities of the New South. The 1930 U. S. Census gave Gastonia a population of 17,093, and Greater Gastonia, 28,250.

Favored by nature in location and climate, Gastonia is a city of humming industry.

This transformation, constituting as it does one of the thrilling romances of industry, was wrought almost entirely by native sons of Gaston. Men of vision, native to the soil, swept the old order from the path of progress, and builded here the foundation of a great industry in the South.

Industrial Supremacy

Textile manufacturing is the basic industry of this com- munity. Gastonia has 42 cotton mills and 600,000 spindles, a mill capitalization of more than $16,000,000 and an average daily payroll of about $20,000.

A wide variety of textile products is produced in the city and county, including tire fabric, sewing thread, ging- hams, flanneling, sheeting, damasks, rayons, silks, hosiery, mattresses, labels, rugs, bedspreads, crocheting thread, etc.

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Successful operation of the textile industry in Gastonia and Gaston County has never been hampered except in periods of world-wide depression that have finally affected this center. Even in such periods of economic depression, this city has been among the first to show a healthy reaction toward normalcy. This indicates local conditions insuring the success of well-managed new industries of similar type.

While the textile industry predominates, there is a grow- ing tendency toward diversification. Industries and prod- ucts in Gastonia include: Machine shops and foundries, wood-working plants, gear factories, leather belting, roller covering shops, comber needling, knotters, textile supplies, novelties, and the largest builders of textile machinery in the South.

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One of the Largest Tire Fabric Plants Under One Roof in the World, Located in Gastonia

Firestone Chooses Gastonia

In 1935 the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., after a careful survey of labor conditions and other factors affecting indus- try in the South, selected Gastonia as the site for a mam- moth branch plant, establishing here a corporation for the manufacture of fabrics to be used in the making of its na- tionally-famous tires. This is one of the important industrial movements to the South in recent years.

Location

Gastonia is on the main double-tracked line of the Southern Railway from New York to New Orleans. The Car- olina & Northwestern and the Piedmont & Northern lines also serve the city. The Seaboard Air Line traverses the eastern section of the county. Service by the Railway Ex- press Co. and by the Southeastern Express Co. is available to the shipper.

North Carolina has spent $160,000,000 in the past ten years in bringing her highways up to the highest state of excellence. Ten magnificent paved highways radiate from Gastonia in every direction. Complete and convenient bus

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Scene on the Famous Wilkinson Boulevard (U. S. Highway No. 29) Leading East from Gastonia, Sixty Feet Wide, Four Traffic Lanes, Carrying the Heaviest Traffic of Any High- way in the State of North Carolina

service, with motor express, over these roads to all points is provided.

Among the several highways passing through Gastonia is U. S. Highway No. 29, "The Main Street of the South."

Whether for freight or travel, speedy, economical means of transportation are available

Climate

On an altitude of 825 feet, with a mean annual tempera- ture of 60.2 degrees and an average rainfall of 46 inches, Gastonia enjoys the famous Piedmont climate, unexcelled anywhere. Temperatures below 20 degrees are very rare, and the growing season lasts 222 days.

Electric Power

Industry cannot thrive without adequate power, and in this respect Gastonia is peculiarly fortunate. In close prox- imity to the Duke Power Co., with several of its mammoth plants located in Gaston County, ample electric power is available and at low rates. The quality of service available and the economical rates for the use of electricity are highly important factors in the consideration of Gastonia as a place of residence or as a location for a business.

Taxation

North Carolina has no ad valorem property tax. The city tax rate is $1.25 and the county rate is 51 cents. In spite

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Gastonia-A City of Beautiful Homes

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of all the conveniences afforded by the local government, by means of economical administration the tax rate for both the city and county has been lowered materially for the past several years.

Investment Opportunities

With its railway and highway advantages, coupled with its strategic location in the very heart of the Piedmont tex- tile industry, dense population, nearness to markets and low production costs, Gastonia is an ideal distribution center for the entire Southern textile territory. Approximately 1,- 000,000 people live within a radius of fifty miles from Gas- tonia.

Leadership in the textile industry, and the reasons for attaining this leadership, make Gastonia a peculiarly favor- able location for industries, large or small, that use cotton yarns in any way. The raw product, without freight cost, is immediately available.

Equable climate, transportation facilities, industrious native labor, cheap power, combined with a largely unde- veloped field, make Gastonia and Gaston County an especi- ally inviting location for a large variety of diversified indus- tries. Write the Chamber of Commerce for further particu- lars.

Gastonia, a City of Beautiful Homes

Gastonia is a city of attractive homes. Fifty-four miles of paved streets extend to every section of the city. Three live building and loan associations have largely contributed to make home-owning the rule rather than the exception.

Schools

Gastonia believes in education and is proud of its mod- ern school system. Gastonia has never defeated a bond issue for schools. In less than fifteen years the school enroll-

Gastonia's Magnificent New High School Plant-One of the Largest and Best Equipped in the State 3

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One of Gastonia's Seven Elementary Schools

ment has almost doubled, the number of teachers employed has more than doubled, and the number of buildings has increased from three to nine. All nine have up-to-date equipment, including a large auditorium in each building, libraries, adjustable steel desks, steam heat and good ven- tilation systems.

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Hill's Gastonia (Gaston County, N.C.) city directory [1936], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1936 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 472

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1936
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 472