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HILL'S LAURINBURG
(SCOTLAND COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1962
Including College Park, East Laurinburg, Homemont, Macland, McLaurin Acres, Pine Acres and Westwood
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private 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 Character; also a
BUYERS' GUIDE and a Complete CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY
FOR CONTENTS SEE INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX PRICE $30.00
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PUBLISHERS NOTE
The information in this Directory is gathered by an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to in- sure maximum accuracy.
The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors or omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.
The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next edition of the directory.
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NTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY COMPANY, publishers of Southeastern Directories, (publishers of the Laurinburg Directory since 1959), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1962 edition of the Laurinburg City Directory, which also in- cludes College Park, East Laurinburg, Homemont, Macland, McLaurin Acres, Pine Acres, Westwood and Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Laurinburg's industry, popu- lation and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Direc- tory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflect- ing Laurinburg to the world.
The enviable position 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, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation 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 the Laurinburg Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.
Five Major Departments
The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE BUYERS' GUIDE constitutes the first major de- partment, printed on goldenrod paper, and contains the ad- vertisements of leading manufacturing, business and profes- sional interests of Laurinburg. The advertisements are in- dexed 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 community like Laurinburg, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
II. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is the second major department, printed on canary paper. This de- partment lists the names of all business and professional con- cerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such, it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commer- cial, industrial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
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III. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns, is the third major de- partment, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occu- pation and address of each adult resident of Laurinburg, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the community.
IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUD- ING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is the fourth 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 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 intersecting streets appear at their respec- tive crossing points on each street. 'Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
V. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fifth major department, printed on blue paper.
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 manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broad- cast 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 Laurinburg and vicinity.
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The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an ad- vertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a com- mensurate return.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION
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Associated Realty of Laurinburg Inc ...... right top lines and 51 Belk's Department Store right top lines and 22
Bob's Jewel Shop Inc.
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Bowyer Oscar. right side lines and 21
Callahan's Ed Radio & TV Service. ..... left side lines and Carolinas Domestic Gas Co Inc The ...... right side lines and City Autos Inc. A and
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Cooper Oil Co front lip margin, left side lines and Cooper's Shell Service right side lines and
Cooper's Taxi
Don's Marine & Sport Shop left side lines and
Douglas Luther A Jr right side lines and
Dunbar Wade S Agency front cover, left top lines and
41
Everington's Drug Store
right top lines and 25 Fashion Fabrics Center
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Firestone Home and Auto Supplies
front cover, left top lines and 5
Forde Henry L. left side lines and 43
Gamble Yates J. left side lines and 43
Hardin Heating & Air Conditioning. ... right side lines and 40 30 45
Harris Ice and Fuel Co ...... back cover, right side lines and
Hasty Clothes "A" Clean left side lines and
Hasty Insurance Agency. right side lines and
44
Herman's Tire Co Inc. right top lines and 8 Hill Directory Company. 23
Hoke Concrete Works. 18
Hurricane Fence & Window Co.
right top lines and 28
Johnson Bros Realty & Construction Co
back cover, right side lines, 19 and 51
Johnson Funeral Home
left top lines, B, 2 and 35
Juanita's Beauty Salon right side lines and 16 Laurinburg Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning Co
left side lines and 50
Legion Drug Co back cover, left top lines and 24
Livingston Esso Servicenter .right top lines and 9
Market Furniture Co Inc right side lines and 37
McDougald Funeral Home. .back cover, right top lines and 36
Mckenzie Inc. left top lines, 27 and 49 McLaurin-McArthur Chevrolet Co Inc
front cover, left top lines and 6
McNair Insurance Agency Inc
back cover, left top lines and 42
McNair Oil Co Inc. backbone, left top lines, 31 and 49 McNeill Shop right top lines and 17 Medlin Claude V Building Contractor ...... left side lines and 22 Morgan Oil Corp front cover, right side lines and 32 North State Realty Co ... front stencil, right side lines, 20 and 52 17 One Hour Martinizing
P & T Pontiac-Cadillac Co Inc. right side lines and 9 Peoples Gas & Oil Co ... ... front cover, right side lines, 33 and Philco-Bendix Laundercenters 46
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Pine Acres Motor Lodge & Restaurant
right side lines and 47
Porter's Beauty Salon
right side lines and 16
Prevatt W Joe
bottom stencil and 3
Provident Finance Co. left side lines and 46
Regan Annie McLean Secretarial Service
Rivers Electric.
Robert's Jewelers
Robeson Office Supplies Inc.
Rorie Construction Co .. ..... front stencil, right side lines and
Safeway Motors back cover, right top lines and
Sanford Cecil L.
left top lines and 52
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Scotland County Savings & Loan Association
right side lines and 53
Scottish Laundry & Cleaners
back lip margin, left side lines and 26
Service Oil Co Inc front cover, right side lines and 34
Service Trading Co Inc
Singer Sewing Center
left side lines and
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Southern National Bank. back cover, left top lines and
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State Bank The. front cover, left top lines, 14 and 15
front cover and 11 Stone E B Finance Co Inc.
Zaiden's Garage
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Scotland Concrete Co Inc.
LAURINBURG (Courtesy of Laurinburg Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Council-City Manager.
POPULATION-1960 U. S. Census 8,242; Scotland County 25,183.
ALTITUDE-218 feet above sea level.
CLIMATE-Average temperature 63.3 degrees F .; Average annual rainfall 46.25 inches.
PARKS-3, and 6 playgrounds.
CHURCHES-25, representing 7 denominations.
INDUSTRY-Chief industries of the city and surrounding ter- ritory are textiles, watch manufacturing, cotton ginning, boat building and fertilizer production. Number of manu- facturing establishments 16, employing 3,200 persons. Prin- cipal manufactured products are watches, tire cord, bed- spreads, dish cloths and towels, cotton and synthetic yarns and fabrics, boats, lumber, plywood and fertilizer.
NEWSPAPERS-1 semi-weekly.
RADIO BROADCASTING STATION-1.
MOTELS-3, with total of 84 rooms.
RAILROADS-City served by 2.
HIGHWAYS-The following highways run through, or to, the city: U. S. Highways 15, 74, 401 and 501.
AMUSEMENTS-Number of moving picture theatres 2. Num- ber of golf courses in, or near city 1, Go-Cart Track; 3 swimming pools.
HOSPITALS-1, with total of 135 beds.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES-1.
Scotland County
After generations of labor and education, Scotland County, citadel of North Carolina Scots, is gathering spectacular fruits. A robust economy equally shared by time-honored young, strapping farm and industry; a multi-million-dollar college with a fresh approach to the wisdom of the ages. These are the most spectacular.
Balanced
Only twenty-eight miles long and twenty miles wide, Scot- land County is nevertheless chockfull of lively history, produc- tive countryside, and industrious people. 10,000 of them live within the four incorporated towns. The remaining 15,000 make their homes in the country or grouped about the eight or nine farm and mill communities. The stamp of Scottish character
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is everywhere-in the ring of the name, in the neatness of the home, in the prosperity of business, in the well-managed farm, in the tenacity of purpose, in the vigor of church and school.
Scotland's 318 square miles straddle the wispy border be- tween sandhills and coastal plain. Her southern border lies on the South Carolina line. The county is varied in its topography, the southeast side being low and flat, and the northwest sec- tion higher and rolling. Draining the area is a web of small creeks and streams, all of which flow eventually to either the Cape Fear or Pee Dee basins. Scotland's main waterway is Lumber River, which runs down the northeast and east border.
A small county to begin with, Scotland further reduced by government-owned Sandhills Game Management Area, which occupies the northern fifth of the area. This territory and about two-thirds of farm-owned land are thickly wooded. Much of this forest, of tall long-leaf pines, gum and oak, has remained untouched, and thousands of acres have recently been reforested. These woods are Scotland's most attractive natural asset, and within their depths a variety of wildlife make their home.
Cotton Country
Subtract the forests, the park and the towns, and it leaves only 50,000 acres of farm land. But Scotland has a way of making the most out of what it has; and the county currently ranks high among cotton-producing areas in North Carolina. Out of a 1961 agricultural income of 6.3 million dollars, cotton brought 21/2 million. Tobacco was next with one million dollars, and livestock accounted for another one and a half million. Products of the forest represent a potential which has been hardly realized. One-third came from this source in 1960.
Commercial hog and cattle production are comparatively new elements in the agricultural picture, but are expected to expand rapidly with the stimulus of the gigantic Laurinburg- Maxton cattle feed lot.
Truck Crops Fade
While cotton has held its own in Scotland, with steadily increasing yields due to mechanization, insect control, and more know-how, a few familiar crops have passed out of the picture. There used to be around 30,000 acres of canteloupes and melons; now there are little more than a thousand. In the twenty's and thirties, peaches were thought to be Scot- land's most promising young crop. Now there is only one commercial peach orchard in the county.
The sharecropper is becoming obsolete in North Carolina and in Scotland County. What work can not be done by ma- chines is done by the day laborer. Only 25 percent of the farm population can be strictly classed as tenants. Another agricultural trend is the cash renting of land on which to grow cotton. This trend has grown out of the urgency to use the right land for the right crop, and in many cases, cotton is being grown on poorly-suited acrcagc. So the enlightened planter is sceding his own land with some other crop, and renting a field for his cotton.
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Fewer, Larger
There have been some dramatic changes in the last six years in size and number of farms. The number of farms in Scotland decreased from 1241 in 1954 to 810 in 1959. During the same period, the average size of farms increased from 100.5 acres to 111.4 acres. And the value went up from $88.35 per acre to $136.64 per acre. Although the small farmer is still the agricultural backbone, the movement toward large farms is rapid.
Industry
Scotland County's industrial receipts equal those from agriculture. Textiles comprise by far the major portion of in- dustry, there being eleven plants in the county producing tire cord, bedspreads, dish cloths and towels, cotton and synthetic yarns and fabrics. Products of Heritage, Scotland, and Mor- gan Mills are sold under the Morgan-Jones label. Dixiana and Waverly Mills produce carpets and yarns respectively. One of the most interesting items is the Minuet bedspread made by Heritage Weavers. This spread is a machine-made duplication of a authentic colonial pattern, and rivals in beauty and strength anything that Grandma could have created by hand.
Scotland's mill towns and villages are for the most part clean and attractive. The plants themselves have all been updated and beautified since the war, the surroundings land- scaped, and the homes in the area range from strikingly hand- some to modestly neat. There is nothing about these towns to disturb the natural grace and tranquility of Scotland's scenic countryside.
Almost all of the textile mills are owned or managed by native families, who have been in the business for a long time; but their products are sold all over the world.
First
Richmond Mill Pond was the site of Scotland's first textile plant. It was built by Capt. Charles Malloy from Cumberland County just after the Civil War. The industry was preceded by Murdock Morrison's gun factory, destroyed by Sherman in 1865. Mark Morgan came into the business in 1872. and sub- sequently became president and sire of a whole family of Morgan Millers.
With home offices at historic Richmond Pond, Morgan Mills now has 6 plants and employs the largest single work force outside of farming in the county.
Other native industries are lumber and plywood, fertilizer production, and other farm-related manufacturers and boat building.
Watch Makers
Scotland's most recent and different excursion into the in- dustrial field was the acquisition of a branch of the Ingraham Watch Co. Ingraham came to Laurinburg from Bristol, Conn. in 1959. Citizens of Laurinburg put up $325,000 toward the $700,000 plant, whose executives and workers have been warmly accepted into the community.
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Scotland County is served by four railroads: Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Rockingham, and the Laurin- burg and Southern. The Seaboard is what used to be the Caro- lina Central Railroad. The removal of their stock from Wil- mington to Laurinburg in the 1860's was one of the biggest impetuses to growth in the area. It is around this time that the shift of importance from Laurel Hill Church to Laurinburg schools becomes apparent.
First Industry
Scotland's first big enterprise is dying away with the in- exorable march of time and progress. In 1920, 45,625 bales of cotton were ginned in the county, and in 1958 the figure dropped to 9,702 bales. Presently there are around eight gins operating in Scotland, Neill Mckay's (pronounced McCoy) at Wagram being one of the largest. With increased produc- tion through modern farm methods, it is hoped that the gin- ning business will hold its own in years to come.
History
Scotland County's early history is also that of its parent, Richmond. The territory was settled in the 18th century by waves of Highland Scotch, overflowing from the Cape Fear and Pee Dee regions. The exact date is not known, but Laurel Hill Church was raised in 1797. A considerable settlement grew up around Laurel Hill Church (not to be confused with Laurel Hill community of today.)
The New York to New Orleans Coach Road cut right through the middle of Scotland. Entering the county at Wag- ram, the road ran to Laurel Hill Church, thence to Spring- field Mills and on into South Carolina. Inns and taverns for overnight travelers were located in each of these villages, and the social and commercial life of the area centered around them until the coming of the railroad.
Scotch Fair
Laurel Hill Church was also the site of the old Scotch Fair, inaugurated by Duncan McFarland for the benefit of settlers who were too far removed from Fayetteville or Che- raw, S. C. In time, the folks from Fayetteville and Cheraw were coming to it. And remote mountaineers drove their cov- ercd wagons out of the hills and down to this flatland market.
Education
There is a legend explaining why the area's pioneers were more school-minded than their neighbors. When emigrants were pushing up the Cape Fear River from Wilmington, someone posted a sign reading: "The best land lies 100 miles west of here." The illiterates stared blankly at the sign; those able to read pushed on to establish themselves in what is now Scotland, and to breed a competent race.
The earliest known school was Spring Hill Academy at Wagram. Spring Hill Academy was in existence at least by 1820, and (as in the case in Laurinburg) subsequent public schools arc lineal descendents of this pioneer academy. School building or not, education went on and produced a record- making number of orators, lawyers, preachers, politicians,
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