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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of South- eastern Directories, present to subscribers and the gene- ral public, this, the 1959 edition of the Laurinburg City Directory, which also includes East Laurinburg and the rural routes emanating from the Laurinburg Post Office.
This is the first Hill Directory of Laurinburg, and is completely standardized according to the policies and practices of the Association of North American Directory Publishers.
Confidence in the growth of Laurinburg's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sec- tions of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Laurinburg to the world.
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Five Major Departments
The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major department of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the busi- ness and professional concerns of the city and vicinity, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate head- ings-a catalog of all the activities of the city and vicinity. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and busi- ness cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages rep- resent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or market for goods. In a progressive community like Laurinburg, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately avail- able, is obvious. The Directory is the common inter- mediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of
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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, martial status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Laurinburg and East Laurinburg, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the community.
III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, IN- CLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major department, printed on green paper. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business con- cerns 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 intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
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V. THE LAURINBURG RURAL ROUTES DIREC- TORY is the fifth major department, printed on white paper.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
Adams Bill Esso Service left side lines and 11 Anthony's Parts and Rebuilders left side lines and 3
Associated Realty Company ..
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Bill's Cleaning Service left side lines and 15
Bob's Jewel Shop
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Clary's
Coble Dairy Products Cooperative Inc.
Commercial State Bank
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Covington Supply Co left side lines and 14
Dunbar Wade S Agency front cover, left top lines and 42
Dunn's Electric Service right side lines and 19
Evans Bill Co Inc back cover, right top lines, 52 and
56 Firestone Home & Auto Supplies front cover, left top lines and 4
Harper Motor Lines. right top lines and 50
Harris Ice and Fuel Co
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Hatcher Austin Transfer right side lines and 51
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Keith Trading Company
front stencil, right side lines, 26 and 38 Laurel Hill Live Stock Market 47
Laurinburg Finance Co Inc 47
Liberty Tire Co Inc. right top lines and 5
Livingston Esso Servicenter
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Market Furniture Company Inc right side lines and 39
Master Tire Recapping Co. left side lines and 11
Matthews E M Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Service. left side lines, 2 and 58
McCall Edwin T left side lines and 44 McCarter Electrical Co back cover, right top lines and 27 McDougald Funeral Home back cover, right top lines and 37 McLaurin-McArthur Chevrolet Co Inc front cover, left top lines and 7 McNair Automotive Co Inc back cover, left top lines and 8 McNair Oil Co Inc
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McNeill Shop right top lines, A and 16 Monroe Ed Electric Service right side lines, 20 and 28
Morgan Oil Corp
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Nichols Esso Servicenter left side lines and 9
Owen Motor Co. right side lines and 10
Parker's Roofing & Sheet Metal
left side lines and 60
Pate Z V Inc ...... front lip margin, right top lines and 23
Peoples Gas & Oil Company
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Peoples Gas & Oil Company (L P Gas Division) right side lines and 40
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Roberts Jewelers left top lines and 45 Rockingham Dairy Products Inc 22
Scotland County Savings & Loan Association front cover, left top lines and 59
Scotland Oil Co back lip margin, right top lines and 35
Scottish Laundry & Cleaners
top stencil, right side lines and 46 Security Loan Corp of Laurinburg Inc ..... 29 Service Oil Co Inc
.back cover, left side lines, 36 and 54 Simmons Heating & Flooring Co
back cover, right top lines, 31 and 41 State Bank The front cover, left top lines and 13 Stearns J S Construction Co
back cover, right side lines and 18 Stone E B Finance Co Inc
front cover, left top lines and 48
Terry Brothers Dry Cleaners 25
W & H Clothing Co left side lines and 17
Warner's Heating & Air Conditioning
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Webb Floral Co 32
LAURINBURG (Courtesy of Laurinburg Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government-City Manager-Council.
Population-7,134 U. S. Census 1950, local esti- mate at present 8,500.
Parks-3.
Assessed Valuation-$9,004,000 with $1.35 per
$100 tax rate.
Bonded Debt-$378,000.
Financial Data-1 bank, with total deposits of $6,972,673 on December 31, 1957; total resources of $8,009,860 on December 31, 1957.
Churches-25, representing 9 denominations.
Industry-Chief industries of the city and sur- rounding territory are Manufacturing and Agriculture. Number of manufacturing establishments 9 employing 1,672 workers in 1956. Principal manufactured products Plywood, Textiles, Building Materials, Flour and Feeds, Cotton Seed Products.
Newspapers-Semi weekly 1.
Radio Broadcasting Stations-WEWO.
Hotels and Motels-6 with total of 96 rooms.
Railroads-City served by 2 railroads, as follows: Laurinburg & Southern Railroad Co., Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co.
Highways-The following highways run through, or to, the city: U. S. 501, U. S. 15, U. S. 74, U. S. 401.
Amusements-Number of moving picture theatres 2. Number of golf courses 1. Other Amusements: Leg- ion Stadium, Country Club, Swimming Pool and Fishing.
Hospitals-1, with total of 134 beds.
Education-Grade School enrollment 2,783. High School Enrollment 725.
City Statistics-Fire department has 4 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 15 men.
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA
Laurinburg, the county seat of Scotland County, is located in the extreme south-central portion of North Carolina. It has a population of 8,500 persons, and is located within 100 miles of such major population cen- ters as Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro and Wilmington.
The economy of Laurinburg and Scotland County is a well defined balance between industry and agri- culture. Textile mills, located throughout the county, comprise the major industry, while cotton, tobacco, corn soybeans, small grain and truck crops are the principal agricultural products. Economic progress over the past 20 years is well illustrated in the steadily climbing retail and wholesale trade, employment and wage sta- tistics.
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For industrial locators, the Laurinburg area offers a wide choice of level, well-drained terrain with abund- ant surface and underground water resources. The area is served by major north-south and east-west highways, plus a well maintained network of secondary roads, Three railroads and a number of motor freight carriers operate into Laurinburg and the county.
There is adequate bus service to all points, and major airlines operate full schedules from points within one to two hours drive. Excellent private airport faci- lities are maintained at Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base.
Laurinburg, which earned a LOOK Magazine All- America City Award in 1956 for civic improvements, is the home of Consolidated Presbyterian College, a four- year liberal arts school, which will open its doors in 1960.
HISTORY OF SCOTLAND COUNTY
Early History of the Forming of Scotland County From Richmond:
Some important facts regarding Richmond County, from which Scotland was formed in 1899, are neces- sary for a proper background.
Up to 1729, the State of North Carolina was com- posed of only three counties: Albemarle, Bath and Clarendon. New Hanover was created in that year. Bladen was sliced from Hanover in 1734; Anson taken from Balden in 1749; Mecklenburg was formed from Anson in 1762, and finally in 1799 Richmond was carved out of that portion of Anson that lay east of the Pee Dee River. South Carolina formed the southern boundry, Moore and Robeson Counties the eastern. Montgomery County the northern, while the great Pee Dee River formed the western boundry. The newly formed county contained 848 square miles and was named Richmond in honor of Charles Lenox, Duke of Richmond, an able advocate of the cause of America in the House of Lords, in the English Parliament.
In 1899 many prominent citizens of eastern Rich- mond County petitioned the General Assembly to divide the county. The request was finally granted, and the County of Scotland was formed on February 20, 1899, by the following Act:
"AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND PRO- VIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY OF SCOTLAND FROM THE TERRI- TORY OF RICHMOND." THE GENERAL AS- SEMBLY DO ENACT:
SECTION 1, That a county by the name of Scot- land be and the same is hereby created and established out of and embracing Laurel Hill, Spring Hill. Stewartsville and Williamson Townships in Richmond County, the whole to lie within and have the following specified bounds; that is to say: BEGINNING at a point
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in a line between the states of North and South Caro- lina, where the County of Robeson and the County of Richmond in the state of North Carolina converge on said state line, thence in a northernly direction with the line between the counties of Richmond and Robeson in the state of North Carolina to Cumberland County; thence with the line between Richmond and Cumber- land counties to Moore County; thence with the line between Moore and Richmond Counties to the line be- tween Beaver Dam and Spring Hill Townships in Rich- mond County; thence with the line between the Town- ships of Beaver Dam, Rockingham and Marks Creek Townships in Richmond County, and being the line dividing said Townships of Spring Hill, Laurel Hill, and Williamson's in the said County of Scotland to the line between the states of North Carolina and South Caro- lina; thence with said state line to the beginning . .
SECTION 3 of the foregoing act named Peter McRae and W. H. McLaurin of Scotland, as commis- sioners to meet with Commissioners of Richmond and Robeson Counties during the year 1900 and to survey and mark the boundries as designated in the act creat- ing Scotland County. The same act also provided that Laurinburg be the county seat and that the county com- missioners should select a site for a jail within a mile of the center of town.
The county began to function in December, 1900. The first court was held in a rented building. In 1901, however, a brick court house was built and this building is being used today. The wills and deeds books are dated as of December 1900.
Scotland County, with an area of only 205,440 acres or 321 square miles is one of the smallest counties in the state. It has a very irregular outline-the west- ern, northwestern, northern and north eastern bound- ries following the courses of streams or roads. The maximum length of the county is about 28 miles, while its width varies from 13 to 21 miles. It is bounded on the north by Richmond and Hoke Counties, and Lumber River (or Drowning Creek); on the east by Hoke and Robeson Counties, and Lumber Counties; on the south by Marlboro County, South Carolina and on the west by Richmond County.
This county is divided into two distinct physio- graphic divisions. A line drawn from the county line two miles northeast of Gibson and extending in a gene- ral northeast direction across the county to a point on the line about two miles north of Wagram would sep- arate these sections. The county north of this, about one-third of the total area of Scotland County, is locally known as the "Sandhills".
The sharp definition of this area has led geologists to speculate that the area was once the shore of a huge inland sea, and frequent pits or depressions in the land have also lent credence to the theory that the entire area was once showered by meteors.
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The section south of the Sandhill line is known as the "Flatwoods." The topography of the latter section is level, although basin-like depressions representing old lake beds occur frequently. In passing from the "Flatwoods" section to the "Sandhills" there is an abrupt rise in elevation of six to eight feet and the sur- face becomes hilly. With the exception of Lumber Ri- ver, Joe's Creek, and Bridge Creek, the regional drain- age of the county is accomplished by streams having their sources in the Sandhill section. Gum Swamp, Juniper, Jordan's, Big Shoe Heel and Little Shoe Heel, creeks all rise in the Sandhills and flow south, either emptying into the Lumber River or the Pee Dee River. Formerly there were many dirt dams on these streams, forming ponds, which furnished water power to run mill of yarious kinds, and few of these are still oper- ated.
During most of the year Scotland County affords a very delightful climate, the winters are mild and short, while the summers are long and hot. Snows are not infrequent in winter, but they are usually light and last only a short time. The average temperature is 48 degrees Farhenheit in the winter, while the summer average is 76.5. The rainfall is somewhat evenly dis- tributed throughout the year, the average rainfall being 50 inches. Elevation is 220 feet above the sea level.
Scotch Settlers
The early settlers in Scotland County were largely composed of Highland Scotch emigrants from Skye, Argyleshire, Isley, Coll and other western isles of Scot- land. This fact is well established by most writers of Scottish history and by the names, records and testi- monies of prominent citizens of the county today. It is uncertain just when these emigrants first entered this territory, but it is agreed that many Highlanders were living here as early as 1729, at the time of the separa- tion of the province into North and South Carolina.
Perhaps the following excerpt from the most au- thoritative book on the "Highlanders in America" (Mc- Lean) will confirm this belief.
"The earliest, largest, and most important settle- ment of Highlanders in America prior to the peace of 1783 was in North Carolina, along the Cape Fear River, about 100 miles from the mouth and in what was then Bladen, but is now Cumberland County. The time when the Highlanders began to occupy this terri- tory is not definitely known; but some were located there in 1729, at the time of the separation of the province into North and South Carolina. (P. 102)"
While it is quite probable that a few Highlanders had pushed farther westward and settled the territory now known as Scotland County by 1729, there are many facts to prove that most of them took up residence here during the next quarter century.
Gabriel Johnson, himself a Scotman, became Gov- ernor of the province of North Carolina in 1734 and
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was very friendly to the Highlander's cause. During his administration in 1740, Dugal McNeill and Mc- Allister presented a petition in behalf of the High- landers' stating:
"If proper encouragement be given them, that they'll invite the rest of their friends and acquaint- ances over." Accordingly, the House of Commons pass- ed a resolution appropriating 1000 Pounds for new settler's subsistence and exempting them from taxation for the next ten years; providing as many as forty would come in each company. But the House of Com- mons deferred action on this resolution until the next assembly, and so the act was never passed.
Another factor that encouraged many Highland Scotch to settle in the Cape Fear region was the report of Neal McNeal, one of the earliest of the Scotch set- tlers, who went back to his native land in 1739, carry- ing the glad news of the good land in the New World. He told of the fertile soil and how one could actually own the land which he tilled. When he returned, he brought a shipload of 350 Highlanders with him. Soon thereafter, Highlanders in great numbers poured into America, clustering in Nova Scotia, New York, Pennsyl- vania, North Carolina, and as far south as Georgia. It was during this period that the Scotland County area became thickly settled. As one historian (Connor) puts it: "Shipload after shipload of sturdy Highlander set- tlers reached the shores of America, and most of them landing at Charleston and Wilmington, found their way to their kinsman on the Cape Fear. Here in a few years their settlements were thickly scattered through- out the territory now embraced in the Counties of Anson, Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland and Hoke (p. 55)".
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