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Established 1888 FIRST INSURANCE AGENCY IN WASHINGTON (See Yellow Pages 42 and 43) Phones Office WHitney 6-2520 145 N. Market St. Res. Whitney 6-2325 and WHitney 6-2291
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HILL'S WASHINGTON (BEAUFORT COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1961
Including Washington Heights and Washington Park
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate 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 the
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PUBLISHERS NOTE
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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 1961 edition of the Washington City Directory, which also includes Washington Heights, Washington Park and the Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Washington'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 Washington 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 organiza- tion, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the pub- lishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Washington Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following 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 con- cerns of the city and vicinity, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-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 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 progressive community like Washington, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always im- mediately 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 stauts, oc- cupation and address of each adult resident of Washington 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 respective 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, on blue paper, is the fourth major department.
Community 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 manufactur- ing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this infor- mation 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 advertisements of Washington.
The Washington Out-of-Town City Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Washington City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 700 of these Directory Libraries, installed and maintained in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada through the courtesy of members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a com- mensurate return.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
Alligood O E left side lines and 55 Alligood W W Painting & Paper Hanging Con-
tractor .back cover, left side lines, 24 and 61
Anderson Milling Co Inc. left top lines and 31
Atlantic Discount Corp left top lines and 13
Bank of Washington
front stencil, left top lines and 15
Belk-Tyler Co
Bell Jewelry Co left top lines and
49
Bostic-Sugg Furniture Co Inc ...... left side lines and 37 Bragaw William & Co
front cover, left top and right side lines, 42 and 43
Carolina Dairy Products Corp. left side lines and 25
Cole's Electric Motor Shop left side lines and 30 Eastern Optical Co. back cover and 54
Elliott Chevrolet Co Inc
front cover, right top lines and 4
General Welding & Machine Co right side lines and
49
General Wholesale Building Supply Co back cover, left side lines and
16 5
Greene Oil Co front cover, right top lines and
52 56
H & S Front End Service left side lines and
Hamilton C W
left side lines and
Hamilton Grocery
Harding H E & Son
front cover, left top lines, 47 and 56
Harris Hardware Co left side lines and 41 27
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Hill Richard H Jr right side lines and 18 Hill Walter Truck Line right side lines, A and 51 9
John Small Avenue Pure Station ... left top lines and
Jones Body Shop left side lines and
9 Leggett-Merchant of Cleanliness ...... back cover and
29 Mitchell H Reid Jr Mutual Insurance Agency
right top lines and 44
Mobley's Tire Service left side lines and 14
Modern Upholstering & Refinishing Co
Morris Insurance Agency left top lines and 47
Moss Planing Mill Co
backbone, right top lines and 17
New Bern Provision Co
back cover, right top lines and 50
O'Neil Electric Co Inc. right side lines and 23
Pat's Garage. left side lines and 12
Paul Funeral Home
front cover, right top lines and 35
Perry D T Jr left side lines and 55
Pinkham J H Esso Products. left side lines and 34
Rhodes E P Distributor Inc. front cover and 32
14 22 41
Generator & Starter Repairs ...... left side lines and Godley E H. right side lines and
21
Grimes Willie right side lines and
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S & W Steak House left side lines and 57 St Agnes Catholic Church left side lines and 19
Security Loan Corp left top lines
Service Garage. right side lines and 11
Slade's Perma Stop Co left side lines and 30
Sloan Insurance Agency
bottom stencil and 46
Smiley Roofing Co
back cover, left side lines, 2 and 58
Smith Motor Co left top lines and 10
Smith's Radio & Television Sales & Service
right top lines and 61
Smoke's Tire Rebuilders
front cover and 6
Sneed Louis F right side lines and 25
Spain Roofing & Sheet Metal Works
right side lines and 59
Stancil Flying Service
right top lines and 3
Swain Ray Motors
right top lines and 7
Swindell Guy T Jeweler
left top lines and 48
Talley Implement Co Inc
top stencil, right top lines and 8
Tayloe Drug Co
right top lines and 28
Taylor B F Oil & Tire Distributor
left top lines and 34
Thomas & Howard Co Inc. right side lines and 40
Thomas Romie L
right side lines and 21
Togo's Men & Boys' Shop. left side lines and 19
Washington Furniture & Gas Outlet
back cover, left side lines, 38 and 39
Washington Iron & Metal Co Inc
back cover, right top lines, 20 and 60
Waters Oil Co front cover, left top lines and 33
Whitfield & Whitley Funeral Home
right side lines and 36
Winfield H G right top lines and 53
WASHINGTON
"THE ORIGINAL WASHINGTON" (Courtesy Washington Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Council-Manager. Incorporated as a town in 1771.
POPULATION-9,764 (1960 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 .; aver- age 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-2 banks with total deposits of $40,148,547 (Sept. 1958) and total resources of $44,750,937 (Sept. 1958). 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 per- mits 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 manufactur- ing establishments, 11.
PRINCIPAL MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS-Lumber, sport shirts, yarns, redried tobacco, concrete blocks, truck bodies, mattresses and boats.
TRADE AREA-Retail area has radius of 50 miles, and popu- lation of 300,000. Wholesale area has radius of 100 miles and population of 1,000,000.
NEWSPAPERS-1 (daily).
RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS-1, W R R F.
TELEVISION STATIONS-1, W IT N.
HOTELS-1, with total of 75 rooms.
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RAILROADS-2, Norfolk Southern and Atlantic Coastline.
BUS LINES-4, Seashore Transportation Co., Carolina Trail- ways, 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 persons. 2 moving-picture theatres with total seating capacity of 1,200 persons. 1 golf course. Also bowling alleys, tennis courts and an athletic field.
HOSPITALS-1, with 100 beds. New County Hospital. 3 Clinics. EDUCATION-Number of public schools, 2 (1 elementary and 1 junior-senior high school). 2 parochial schools. 1 kinder- garten. Number of pupils in public schools, 4,170; in paro- chial, 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 pump- age 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 Bonner, 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 mercantile transactions with foreigners and transient persons."
The official 1960 census of Washington was 9,764 popula- tion, 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 continue 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 on the navigable Tar and Pamlico rivers, it is 135 miles south of Norfolk, Virginia, and 105 miles east of
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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, cotton, corn, soy beans, potatoes, livestock, oats, peanuts, and les- pedeza.
Existing industries consist of a yarn spinning plant, a shirt manufacturing plant, a dressmaking plant, grain elevators, lumber and planing mills, mattress manufacturing plants, a manufacturer 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. There are 47 industries in the county employing 1,100 workers.
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 from the Virginia Electric and Power Company. Washington'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 212 million gallons per day to serve up to 48,000 population. The extensive facilities of the Washington Gas Company provide gas to customers on exist- ing city mains. Several local bottled gas companies render service within the community at reasonable 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 Ter- minal, 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 Inland Waterway 30 miles east of the City. The nearest commercial airport is at New Bern, 35 miles south. Washington's airport is used by private land and sea planes. The local airport is Government-built and has con- crete runways 150 feet wide and 5,000 feet long. Flying charter service is available.
Washington's educational facilities consist of one elemen- tary and one junior-senior high school with 4,263 students. Nearby colleges are East Carolina College at Greenville, Atlantic Christian College at Wilson and Chowan Junior Col- lege 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 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 enthusiast, yatchman, and
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all interested in the advantages which the big Pamlico River has to offer.
Among the leading civic, fraternal, and social organiza- tions are the following: Washington Shrine Club, Loyal Order of Moose, Lions Club, Elks Club, Woman's Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Garden Clubs, Masonic lodges, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Book Clubs, American Legion, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Degree of Pocahontas, Toastmaster Club and Order of Redmen.
Industrial Situation
Living conditions in Washington are good, and available industrial labor in the city and county is already housed. Labor relations are particularly good in industrial establishments, and there is an adequate supply of available labor in the area.
Financial Situation
The bonded debt of the city is $2,447,000. The city council awards contracts to the lowest bidder. The city has never faltered in payment of any bond or obligation, and is in a sound financial condition. The city is constantly expanding its water and sewer facilities to meet the growth and expan- sion of the city. Any developments or expansions in the im- mediate future will be done from current revenue rather than bond issues.
Retail Trade
Washington is a retail and wholesale trading center. The retail area covers a radius of around 50 miles, serving a popu- lation of 300,000. The wholesale area has a radius of around 100 miles and covers a population of 1,000,000. Almost every type of retail store will be found in Washington's modern shopping section, and it is the natural hub of market activities for six surrounding counties. The Washington Daily News, published each afternoon except Sunday, has an average daily circulation of 4,800. The retail trade area handles the highest quality merchandise.
Wholesale Trade
Among leading wholesale dealers here are those dealing with clothing and hardware.
Civics and Welfare
Washington is currently served by one new hospital with 100 beds. Additional rooms are to be added to the new Beau- fort County Hospital, which is entirely air conditioned. There are three clinics in the city. City and county health depart- ments have active programs. Amusements consist of two mod- ern motion-picture theatres, bowling alleys, a city-owned rec- reation center, two drive-in theatres, a public park, a new air-conditioned public library with 16,000 volumes, two full- time radio stations and a locally-owned NBC TV station. CBS television is received strongly from a station 20 miles away.
The Washington Yacht and Country Club has an excellent nine-hole golf course and yacht basin with docking facilities. There are public tennis courts. Swimming and fishing arc ex- cellent in the Pamlico River and the country club has a swim-
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ming pool of the finest and most modern construction. Boating, sailing and hunting are excellent in and near Washington. The nearest beach on the Atlantic Ocean is 70 miles away.
The Chamber of Commerce sponsors an annual Christmas parade, as well as special events throughout the year.
City as a. Center
Located on Ocean Highway U. S. 17 between Maine and Florida, Washington is of interest historically to many tourists, being surrounded by historical points of interest regarding the first settlers of America.
Advantages and Claims
The advantages of Washington as a recreation center are unexcelled, due to its water sports facilities and its prox- imity to the Atlantic Ocean. Industry seeking sites for cxpan- sion will find Washington an excellent location due to its mod- ern facilities, available sites, modern climate, good labor re- lations and high quality of large labor supply.
City as a Service Center
The Washington Chamber of Commerce, 131 East Main Street, P. O. Box 665, telephone WHitney 6-2531, is prepared to give complete information on any phase of Washington's facilities to interested parties.
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ITY T IRECTORY
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MORE GOODS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS LISTS
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