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STEWART'S JEWELRY STORE
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121 N. MARKET ST.
JEFFERSON GAS & APPLIANCE CO. BOTTLE GAS Gas and Electrical Appliances
U. S. Hwy. 17, 1 Mile South
Phone 95
UPTOWN BRANCH
237 W. Main St.
Phone 743
JOHN G. BRAGAW
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Established 1888 First Insurance Agency in Washington (See Yellow Pages 60 and 61) 145 N. Market St. Phones Office 59, Res. 266 and 232
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INTRODUCTION and GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1957 edition of the Washington City Directory, which also includes Washington Heights and Washington Park, and the rural routes emanating from the Washington post office.
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Five Major Departments
The five major departments are arranged in the follow- ing order :-
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major de- partment of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of the city, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under ap- propriate 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 catalog 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 a busy and diversified community like Washington, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always 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 com- mercial, industrial and professional world.
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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, occupation and address of each adult resident of Washing- ton and vicinity, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation.
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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- 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 re- spective 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 WASHINGTON RURAL. ROUTE DIRECTORY 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
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Alligood's Welding & Machine Shop .left bottom lines and 74
Ammons Bake Shop. left side lines and 14
Atlantic Discount Corp
left side lines and 10 Bank of Washington
. front stencil, left and right bottom lines, 16 and 17
Barnes Tire Co Inc.
.left side lines and 13 Beaufort County Iron Works ... left bottom lines, 76 and 100 Belk-Tyler Co.
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Bell Jewelry Co. left side lines and 68
19 Bookkeeping & Business Services Inc. Bowers Insurance Agency left top lines and 68 Bragaw William & Co
. . front cover, left top and right bottom lines, 60 and Broome Haywood Jr Distributor
61
. back cover, right side lines, 29 and 40
Cargill Inc.
Carolina Dairies Corp. .right bottom lines and
Cherry Funeral Home
..... tabbed Insert at name in Alphabetical Section
City Shoe Hospital right side lines and 95 Clear-View Television & Appliance Co Inc
.right bottom lines and 96
Danny's Esso Servicenter
right side lines and
11
Day's Ted Sea Food Co
left center lines and
93
Engelhardt R F DC.
. left side lines and
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Evans Seafood Co.
left side lines and
94
Galloway & Taylor. left side lines and 78 Garris Adrian TV & Appliance Service
left side lines and 98
General Welding & Machine Co. left center lines and 75 Generator & Starter Repairs. left side lines and 5
Go-More Chevrolet Co Inc
left top and right bottom lines and 6
Greene Oil Co. .right top lines and 79
Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. . . right bottom lines and 18 Harding H E & Son. .. front cover, left side lines, 62 and Hill Directory Co Inc.
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Home Furniture Store. left top lines and 48
J & W Plumbing & Heating Co. .left bottom lines and 27
Jack's Furniture Store. right side lines and 46 Jefferson Gas & Appliance Co
. front cover, right side lines, 4 and 49 John Small Avenue Pure Service .left top lines and 11
Leggett. right top lines and 34 Leonard's Paint & Hardware Store .. . left side lines and Maola Ice Cream Co .. . front cover, left side lines, 57 and Mitchell H Reid Jr Mutual Insurance Agency Moore F Ray . left center lines and right side lines and 63 80 Morris Insurance Agency front lip margin, left bottom lines, A and 64
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Moss Planing Mill Co
. backbone, right top and left bottom lines, 20 and 72 Norwood Lumber Co. . back cover, right top lines, 70 and 71 Southern Furniture Co ... back cover, left side lines and 47 Oden Funeral Home .... back cover, right side lines and 44
O'Neil Electric Co Inc. . right side lines and 26 Paul Funeral Home. . back cover, left bottom lines, 3 and 45 Paul J W Real Estate & Rental Agent
back cover, left bottom lines, 88 and 89
Payne Insurance Agency.
.right side lines and 65
Perkins Body Shop .right top lines and 7
Pitt Perma-Stone Co. left center lines and 21
Rhodes E P Distributor
. front cover, right side lines, 41 and 81
Shelton B W Mrs Florist
. front cover, left top and right bottom lines, 39 and 53
Sloan Insurance Agency
. bottom stencil, left and right side lines, 66 and 90
Smith's Radio & Television Service
left bottom lines and 97
Smoke's Tire Rebuilders. ribbon bookmark and 12
Stewart's Jewelry Store
front cover, right top lines, 51 and 69
Swain Buick Co. right bottom lines and 8
Talley Implement Co Inc
. top stencil, left and right side lines, 9 and 38
Tayloe Drug Co. left bottom lines and 32
Taylor-Roberts Oil Co. . back cover, left top lines, 42 and 82
Thomas & Howard Co Inc. right side lines and 54
Thomson TV Co .. left side lines and 99 Tidewater Gas Co (Washington Gas Division)
right top lines and 50
Togo's Men & Boys' Shop. left side lines and 24
Tripp Radio & TV Co. left top and side lines, 2 and 100 Vann's Studio. left bottom lines and 85 Walker's Drive-In Cleaners .. . right bottom lines and 35 Washington Iron & Metal Co Inc
.back cover, right bottom lines, 25 and 91 Washington National Farm Loan Association left center lines and 37
Washington News Publishing Co Inc.
77 Washington Supply Co. right side lines and 36 Waters M G Lumber Co
. front cover, left side lines, 22 and 73 Waters & Robbins Oil Co .. . back 83 lip margin, left top and right bottom lines, Z, 43 and Welch's Drug Store. . left side lines and 33
Williams Jamie M. right top lines and 67
Winfield H G. . right top lines and 84
Wood's Salvage Yard. . right side lines and 92 Youmans E L Plumbing & Heating
. back cover, left and right bottom lines, 56 and 86
WASHINGTON
"THE ORIGINAL WASHINGTON"
(Courtesy Washington Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government-Council-Manager. Incorporated as a town in 1771.
Population-9,698 (1950 U. S. Census); local estimate at present, 12,000.
Area-2 square miles.
Altitude-15 feet above sea level.
Climate-Mean annual temperature 64.7 degrees F .; av- erage annual rainfall, 49.7 inches.
Parks-1, with total of 12 acres, valued at $80,000.00.
Assessed Valuation-$12,000,000, with $1.80 per $100.00 tax rate.
Bonded Debt-$2,447,000.
Financial Data-3 banks with total deposits of $12,- 000,000 on Oct. 15, 1956 and total resources of $14,000,000 on Oct. 15, 1956. 2 building and loan associations, with total assets of $3,707,938.51 on June 30, 1956.
Postal Receipts-$104,188.77 for year ended Dec. 31, 1956. Telephones in Service-3,000.
Churches-29, representing 12 denominations.
Building and Construction-Number of building permits issued, 634, valued at $4,481,718.00 from Dec. 1, 1948 to April 21, 1956.
Industry-Chief industries of the city and surrounding territory are: Tobacco, lumber, textiles, concrete, truck bodies, mattresses, boat builders. Number of manufac- turing establishments, 11.
Principal Manufactured Products-Lumber, sport shirts, yarns, redried tobacco, concrete blocks, truck bodies, mat- tresses and boats.
Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 50 miles, and population of 300,000. Wholesale area has radius of 100 miles and population of 1,000,000.
Newspapers-1 (daily).
Radio Broadcastings Stations-2, WHED and WRRF.
Television Stations-1, WITN.
Hotels-2, with total of 105 rooms.
Railroads-2, Norfolk Southern and Atlantic Coastline.
Bus Lines-4, Seashore Transportation Co., Carolina Trailways, Englehard Co and Belhaven Co.
Highways-U. S. 17 and 264 and State 33, 32 and 92.
Airports-1.
Automobile Registrations-11,220.
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 800 per- sons. 2 moving-picture theatres with total seating capacity of 1,200 persons. 1 golf course. Also bowling alleys, tennis courts and an athletic field.
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Hospitals-2, with 100 beds. New County Hospital under construction (100 beds).
Education-Number of public schools, 2 (1 elementary and 1 junior-senior high school). 3 parochial schools. Num- ber of pupils in public schools, 4,170; in parochial, 304. Number of teachers in public schools, 145; in parochial, 13. Value of public school property, $1,900,000.
Public Libraries-1, with 16,000 volumes.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 33.71, with 15.76 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 16; sewers, 45. Number of water meters, 2,990; light meters, 6,274. Capacity of water works 3,000,000 gallons, with daily average pumpage of 1,200.000 gallons; 30 miles of mains, and plant valued at $1,500,000. Fire department has 54 paid men, with 1 station and 6 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department real estate and equipment, $150,000. Police department has 20 men, with 1 station and 3 pieces of motor equipment. Birth rate, 1,065; death rate, 395 (1955).
STORY OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, N. C.
The City Today
The Original Washington was founded on the 337 acres granted to Christopher Dudley in 1726. In 1771 James Bon- ner, then owner of the land, founded a town called "Forks of the Tar River," which by 1776 was known as Washington, the first town in the United States so named.
Washington was incorporated by the General Assembly at Hillsboro in 1782. In 1784 the assembly established a trading port of Washington "for the speedy decision of mer- cantile transactions with foreigners and transient persons."
The official 1950 census of Washington was 9,698 popu- lation, and the present population is estimated at 12,000. This growth is due to new industrial plants brought into the area in the last few years and real estate figures on new homes constructed. On the basis of new businesses in the city, there is every reason to believe that the city will con- tinue to grow steadily in the future.
Washington is in the western part of Beaufort County in the east-central portion of the Coastal Plains section of North Carolina. Located at the confluence of the navigable Tar and Pamlico rivers, it is 135 miles south of Norfolk, Vir- ginia, and 105 miles east of Raleigh, North Carolina. It is on U. S. Highways 17 and 264, and on three state highways and two railroads.
Beaufort County has 112,000 acres of farmland averaging 40 acres per farm, with 3,200 farms, 2,800 of which are com- mercial farms. Main agricultural products are tobacco, cot- ton, corn, soy beans, potatoes, and livestock.
Existing industries consist of a yarn spinning plant, a shirt manufacturing plant, grain elevators, lumber and planing mills, mattress manufacturing plants, a manufac- turer of automobile truck bodies, boat builders and meat processors. These industries draw on raw materials available locally and in surrounding area. The Washington Tobacco Market serves a wide area.
Service Institutions
Washington has an unlimited supply of electric power, furnished by the City of Washington Utilities Commission. Locally generated power is supplemented by purchase power
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from the Virginia Electric and Power Company. Washing- ton's new Jordan water filtration plant, among the most modern in the state, filters 2,750,000 gallons per day, and the average daily usage is 1,000,000 gallons. The new sewage disposal plant has clarifiers sufficient to handle double the present requirements, with capacity of 21/2 million gallons per day to serve up to 48,000 population. The extensive fa- cilities of the Washington Gas Company provide gas to customers on existing city mains. Several local bottled gas companies render service within the community at reason- able rates. Natural gas will be available in Washington during the coming year.
The city is served by two railroads, the Norfolk Southern Railway Company and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. Both rail terminals are located near the center of the town. Washington is served by four bus lines at the Union Bus Terminal, and numerous national trucking lines. Bay boats and barges provide cheap transportation for bulky cargoes on the Pamlico River with its 12-foot channel connecting the city directly with the Intracoastal Waterway. The nearest commercial airport is at New Bern, 35 miles south. Wash- ington's airport is used by private land and sea planes. The local airport is Government-built and has concrete runways 150 feet wide and 5,000 feet long.
Washington's educational facilities consist of one ele- mentary and one junior-senior high school with 4,170 stu- dents. Nearby colleges are East Carolina College at Green- ville, Atlantic Christian College at Wilson and Chowan Junior College at Murfreesboro.
New homes and residential developments constantly add to the beauty of Washington's residential areas. The people are naturally friendly and hospitable, which adds to the charm of this old, historic city. Its natural advantages of being near the water attract people to Washington for the numerous water sports, and the hotels, motels, and tourist homes cater to the fisherman, hunter, water skiing en- thusiast, yachtsman, and all interested in the advantages which the big Pamlico River has to offer.
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