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SPRAY INSURANCE AGENCY ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE -C. GARVIN WARREN, Owner SPRAY
Phone MA in 3-3211
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JEWELER Your Jeweler Since 1918 102-104 W. Washington St.
TEL. MA in 3-3855
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MURPHY & MABES CONTRACTORS
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HILL'S Leaksville, Spray and Draper (ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1959
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory, a Directory of Rural Routes and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also the YELLOW PAGES
With a Special ADVERTISING SECTION and a Complete CLASSIFIED LIST
FOR CONTENTS SEE INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
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HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1959 edition of the Leaksville, Spray and Draper City Directory, which also includes the rural routes emanat- ing from the Leaksville and Draper Post Offices.
Confidence in the growth of Leaksville, Spray and Draper's industry, population and wealth, and in the ad- vancement of their civic and social activities, will be main- tained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Leaksville, Spray and Draper 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 co- operation of the business and professional men and resi- dents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Leaks- ville, Spray and Draper Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the communi- ty.
Five Major Departments
The five major departments are arranged in the follow- ing 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 business and pro- fessional concerns of Leaksville, Spray and Draper, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of Leaksville, Spray and Draper. Pre- ceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the cata- log itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In progressive communities like Leaksville, Spray and Draper, the neces- sity of having this kind of information up-to-date and al- ways immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common intermediary 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 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, marital status, oc- cupation and address of each adult resident of Leaksville, Spray and Draper and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the community.
III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUD- ING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major de- partment, printed on green paper. In this section the num-
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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.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY is the fourth major department, printed on blue paper.
V. THE RURAL ROUTE DIRECTORY the fifth major department, printed on white paper, with a section for Leaksville, followed by a separate section for Draper.
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, 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 perpetual and reliable advertisement of Leaksville, Spray and Draper.
The Out-of-Town City Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Leaksville, Spray and Draper City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Tri-City Chamber of Com- merce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 700 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Associa- tion of North American Directory Publishers.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recog- nition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Direc- tory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Acme TV & Radio Co .right side lines, 72 and 83
Advisor Magazine The.
72
Aheron Radio & TV Service. . tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section
Bateman's Flowers
43
Belk-Cline Co. . back cover, right top lines and 33
Boulevard Real Estate Co Inc.
bottom stencil, left top and right bottom lines and
52
Boulevard Restaurant 77
Boulevard Taxi. right bottom lines and 82
Carolina Coal & Oil Co Inc.
left bottom lines, 16 and 43
Carolina Drug Co. right bottom lines and
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Carolina Esso Servicenter.
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Central Barber Shop.
tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Chandler's Drug Stores. . left bottom lines and 38
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Cox A C & Son.
Dillard's Sunoco Service left bottom lines and 79
Draper Beauty Shop. tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Draper Merchants Assn.
tabbed Insert at name in Alphabetical Section and 66
Draper Shoe Store tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Draper Sinclair Service. tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Dyer's Plumbing & Heating.
Edens Grocery .back cover, left side lines, 29, 51 and 69
tabbed Insert at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Esso Servicenter . tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Fair Funeral Home Inc.
front cover, right bottom and left center lines, 3 and 45
Family Shoe Store. left top lines and 80
Fieldcrest Mills Inc. left center lines, B and 84
First National Bank of Leaksville
left top lines, 8 and 63
Fulp George Electrical Contractor
right side lines and 19
Gauldin Louis Mason Contractor . left side lines and 29
Green G B & Son Inc. left side lines and 31 H & H Clothing Co .. right side lines and 16
Hatley's Laundry & Dry Cleaning
Hill Directory Co Inc. .right top lines, 40 and 62
Hodges W M Building Contractor left side lines and 30
Home Savings & Loan Assn
front cover, right side lines, 10 and 78
Hopkins J Guy
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Cooper & Ratcliff Super Market. left side lines and 18
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Hopkins & Johnston Fuel Co. .right side lines and 44
Hopper Oil Co. left top lines, Z and 44
Ivie Tire Co. front cover, right top lines and 85 Johnston-Turner Furniture Co ...... right top lines and
Kirkpatrick Drug Co. left bottom lines and
L & W Restaurant.
Law's Home Supply Co.
Leaksville Bank & Trust Co. left top lines and 9
Leaksville Lumber Co Inc front stencil, left side lines, 11 and
65
Leaksville News The right bottom lines and 68
Leaksville Paint Co. right side lines and
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Leffew H M Contractor
left side lines and 70 56
Lindsey's Insurance Agency
Martin Raymond R. ..... back cover, right side lines and Maud's Ladies Ready-To-Wear. tabbed Insert
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at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section McBride Bringle Movers. left center lines, Y and 67 Merchants Ice & Coal Co left top lines and 17 81
Mitchell H L Broker. .
Murphy & Mabes. . front cover, right side lines, 21 and Murphy's Central Service Station .... right top lines and New System Laundry Co. . . front cover, right top and left bottom lines, 39 and
61
Newton-Chappell Motors Inc. . ribbon book mark, left top lines and
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Nolen Cabinet Shop
Nora & Mary's .. tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section
O'Mansky Bros .right top lines and 14
Owen Realty & Insurance Co.
. top stencil, right top lines, 56 and 76
Pace-Stone Furniture Co back cover, right side lines, 42 and 47
Paige Raymond Contractor. right bottom lines and
Peoples Finance Co
Powell's Food Store. tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section
Purdy Herman Building Contractor . back cover, left top and right bottom lines and
24
Radford Grocery. tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Rockingham Block & Ready Mix Co.
left bottom lines, A and 17
Rockingham Insurance Agency
Rogers A D Jeweler ...... front cover, left side lines and Rogers Jewelry Company. tabbed Insert
59
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Roselawn Memorial Gardens Inc.
12
Sani-Freeze Dairy Bar
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25 Saunders J E & Son. left bottom lines and
Saunders Roy Texaco Station. tabbed Insert at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Shelton Motor Co ...... front cover, right side lines and Shope's Plumbing Service. left bottom lines and
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Smith John & Sons Inc. 26
Smith & Lane Appliance Co. 4
Spencer's Electric & Plumbing Co ..
. back cover, left side lines, 27 and 41
64 Spray Finance Co.
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Spray Insurance Agency
front cover, right top lines and 54
Spray Town of-Municipal Building. 13
Swinney Fred J & Sons. . right bottom lines and 70 Textile Workers Union of America AFL-CIO Bi-County Joint Board. .right side lines and 60
Tri-City Finance Co .right side lines and 7
Tri-City Glass Co.
right bottom lines and 28 Tri-City Pharmacy. .
left side lines and 57
Tri-City Insurance Agency Inc.
. front and back lip margins, right side lines and 37
Tri-City Pontiac. left bottom lines and 4
W L O E Radio Station
backbone, left side lines, 74 and 75
Wall Furniture Co back cover, left center lines
Wall Insurance Agency
Weaver's. left top and right bottom lines and 55
left bottom lines and 34
Wilson's A W Grocery. tabbed Insert
at Draper Merchants Assn in Alphabetical Section Winn Electric Co. .back cover, left side lines, 2, 31, 40 and 51
Wright's left top lines and 15
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Leaksville, Spray and Draper
"Wonderful Land of Eden" (Courtesy Tri-City Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Location in County- North Central Section, Leaksville Township.
Population-Towns 1950 Est 1957
Leaksville (Incorp 1874) 4,045 7,500
Spray (Incorp 1951) 5,542 6,500 Draper (Incorp 1949) 3,629 5,500 Central Area (Uninc) 1,500 2,000
Altitude-572.85 feet above sea level.
Climate-Mean annual temperature 60 degrees F .; Aver- age annual rainfall 44.20 inches
Taxes-1957 Tax rate: Leaksville, $1.40; Spray, $1.20; Draper, $1.50. Note County Tax Rate is 85 cts.
Financial Data-2 banks, with total assts of $7,825,181; 2 savings and loan associations, with total assets of $5,153,- 831.
Telephones in Service-5,540 (Central Telephone Co.). Churches-48, representing all denominations.
Industry-Chief industries of the city and surrounding territory are bedding mills, yarn, novelty tables and desk manufacturers, cement, block plant, brick plant, barrel stave plant and electricity. Number of manufacturing establish- ments 10, employing over 4,500 people.
Newspapers-1 weekly.
Radio Broadcasting Stations-2, WLOE and WREV. Hotels-1.
Aerial View of Leaksville, N. C.
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Railroads-City served by 1 railroad, as follows: Caro- lina & Northwestern.
Bus Lines-City served by 1 intra-city bus lines, as fol- lows: Tri-City Transportation Co.
Airports-Greensboro 40 miles, Capital, Eastern and Piedmont Airlines; Danville 25 miles, Eastern and Piedmont Airlines; Winston-Salem 50 miles, Capital, Piedmont and Eastern Airlines.
Recreation-Number of Playfields 6. Number of Play- fields lighted 2. Number of Golf Courses 1 (9 hole Country Club). Number of Theatres 5 white; 1 colored. YMCA, Boys Club and swimming pools.
Hospitals-1, with total of 56 beds. A new 75 bed hospital under construction.
Education-Number of public schools 7; with 1 senior high school and 2 junior high schools. Number of pupils in public schools 4,286. Number of teachers in public schools 179.
Public Libraries-2, with total of 71,654 volumes; also 2 Bookmobiles.
Water-For industrial or other use is available in un- limited supply throughout the year with two major rivers, the Smith and the Dan joining at the Tri-Cities.
Natural Gas-Supplied by the North Carolina Gas Cor- poration and Transcontinental Gas Company, is also avail- ble in more than adequate supply for industry, home or busi- ness use.
Power-Furnished by Duke Power Company, and Dan River Steam Station with an output of 300,000 KW.
Historical Sketch Based On Writings Of The Late Judge Henry P. Lane, of Leaksville, N. C.
The Towns of Leaksville, Spray and Draper have come to be known as the Tri-Cities of Rockingham County, North Carolina. This is proper, as they are so intimately linked in their industrial, social and cultural interest as to form one Metropolitan area. Leaksville was incorporated in 1874; Draper in 1949; and Spray in 1951.
These towns are in an historic area. Here Colonel Wil- liam Byrd, the famous Virginian, came in 1728 when he led the commission running the dividing line between Virginia and Carolina. In 1733 he received his grant of twenty thou- sand acres, and named it the "Land of Eden," and said in his immortal book, it was the most beautiful section he has ever seen. All of Spray and Draper, and much of Leaksville lie within the confines of Byrd's tract. When Leaksville's radio station, the first in Rockingham county, went on the air in December, 1946 the call letters, with perfect propriety, were WLOE, representing the "Wonderful Land of Eden."
Leaksville is the oldest of the triplets; and one of the oldest towns in the county. Some years prior to 1797, John Leak had received from Robert Galloway, a large land owner, a tract of one hundred acres of land on the north side of the Dan River, near the point where the Smith River runs into the Dan. By reason of the beauty and healthfulness of the location, Leak decided to promote a town here and had sold a number of lots. In 1797 the Legislative body of the State passed and act authorizing him to lay off a town site on his
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Leaksville Bank & Trust Co,
tract acording to the plans drawn by a board of commission- ers named in the Act, This was done, and the town was named for Leak. Two streets running East and West, Wash- ington and Jay, and three running North and South, Pat- rick, Henry and Hamilton were laid out, and on these streets lots were sold and the town grew up,
The first business houses, as well as residences, were erected on Henry street, near the river where the Karastan rug mill and Bedspread mill now stand.
In 1812, with the creation of the Roanoke Navigation Co., boats began to ply the river from Weldon, N. C, up to Roa- noke River to the Dan, thence up that stream to Leaksville, which became the head of navigation, This created a great boom in the town and a rapid growth. It became the trad- ing center of a great section, extending to and across the Blue Ridge Mountains into Virginia,
Produce from this section, accumulated by the merchants, was conveyed from here down the river, and the songs of the boatmen, as they poled the long batteaux, heavily laden
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with tobacco, and other products along the Dan, were famil- iar sounds.
Around 1818 a great building boom had started here, a large bank was established, a branch of the state bank, and lots were sold for almost fabulous prices. In a few years, the beom collapsed and a more substantial growth began.
In 1819 an academy was opened at Leaksville and later a school for girls was conducted. In later years, Nathan Hen- ry, a son of Americas great orator and patriot Patrick Henry, conducted the Academy for males. In 1846 Patrick Henry III was head of the school. In that year he closed the school, formed a company, and as captain of it, went to Mexico with a North Carolina regiment. Other noted teachers con- ducted the school here, the best known being Professor N. S. Smith and B. W. Ray.
In 1813, James Barnett had erected the largest grist mill in this part of North Carolina, at a point on Smith River, where is now the bank building at Spray. He also operated a saw mill, oil mill and cotton gin and a large store there. He sold his interest, including a large tract of land and valuable water power to John M. Morehead, and in 1839, Morehead built the Leaksville Cotton Mill. In later years,
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