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HILL'S WILLIAMSTON (MARTIN COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1961
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
YELLOW PAGES With a Special ADVERTISING SECTION and a Complete CLASSIFIED LIST
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, (publishers of the Williamston Directory since 1959), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1961 edition of the Williamston City Directory, which also in- cludes Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Williamston industry, popula- tion and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Wil- liamston 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 that the Williamston 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 ad- vertising 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 Williamston, the necessity of hav- ing this kind of information up-to-date and always immediate- ly available 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 residents and business and professional concerns is the second major de- partment, printed on white paper. This is the only record in ex- istence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Williamston, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the community.
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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 resi- dences 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 sec- tion 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
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Alpha Cleaners right top lines and 20
Automotive & Tractor Parts Co Inc
front cover, left and right side lines, 6 and 7
B & W Tire Co ..
back cover, left side lines, 15 and
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Baker Gas Co. front cover, right top lines and 32
Baker Oil Co front cover, left top lines and 26
Belk-Tyler Co.
right bottom lines and
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Boco Servicenter
right side lines and
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Branch Banking & Trust Co
back cover, right top lines, 16 and 17
Central Service Station
City Beauty Shoppe 18
Community Motors
front cover and 36
Courtney B S & Son
front cover, right bottom lines- and 28
Custom Shell Homes Co right side lines and 20 Dixie Motor Co Inc
front cover, right side lines, 8 and 9 Economy Homes Co ... back cover, left top lines and 19
Enterprise Publishing Co
Green N C Marketer left side lines and 27
Griffin Motor Co .... .front stencil, right top lines and 10
Harrison-Crawford Co Inc
ribbon book mark, right top lines and 38
Heilig-Meyers Furniture Co
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Malone R C "Tim" Agent. left side lines and 39
Manning Garage & Welding Co back cover, right side lines and Manning Wheeler Insurance Agency right top lines and B
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Martin County Savings & Loan Assn Inc front cover, left bottom lines and 46
Martin Feed Mills
front cover, left bottom lines and 25
Miller W J & Son left side lines and 35 Mobley Insurance Agency
front cover, left top lines, 40 and 41 Nicholson T O Pure Oil Station .left side lines and 33 Peele Insurance Agency
back cover, right bottom lines, Z and 42
Peele W G. left bottom lines and 44 Ray Woodrow W ... back cover, right bottom lines and 21
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Roanoke Chevrolet Co Inc
back cover, left bottom lines and 11 Roanoke Real Estate & Auction Co
left side lines and 45
Roberson C T Tire Co. right bottom lines and 51
Roberson Maurice Electric Co back cover, left bottom lines and 24
Royal Photographic Center
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front cover, right bottom lines, A and 43
Tea House of Antiques The. 4
Television & Appliance Service Inc
right side lines and 48 Western Auto Associate Store ...... left side lines and
12 White's Heating & Sheet Metal Works
backbone, left side lines, 3 and 37
Williamston Furniture Co Inc
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Williamston Hardware Co .left bottom lines and 3.4 Williamston Motor Co bottom stencil, right side lines, 13 and 52 Woolard Furniture Co Y
WILLIAMSTON
COMMUNITY DATA WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA N. C. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Statistical Review
(Courtesy Williamston Chamber of Commerce)
LOCATION-Williamston is in Martin County in the Northeast- ern part of the State. Its elevation is approximately 72.5 feet above mean sea level.
POPULATION-1950, 3-720; White 55 percent, Native born: 75 percent, Martin County: 27,938. 1960 6,904, White 55 percent Native born: 75 percent, Martin County: 29,265.
LABOR-Estimated labor force for new plants within 20 mile radius: 5,780.
Skilled: Male 275; Semi-Skilled: 725; Unskilled 2,600. Fe- male Skilled: 50; Semi-Skilled: 380; Unskilled: 1,750. Area U. S. Unemployment Compensation Office located in Wil- liamston.
GOVERNMENT AND FINANCES-Form of Government: Mayor-Commissioners. Assessed value of property: City, $6,742,306; Bonded indebtedness: $366,500; Tax rates (Per $100) $2.00. Assessed value of property: County, $29,500,- 000; Bonded indebtedness: $382,000; Tax rates (Per $100) $1.45.
POLICE, FIRE PROTECTION-Number on police force: 9, Fire Stations: 1, Water Pressure: (lbs)60. Insurance rat- ing: Class 2, N. C. Rating Class 7, National Rating.
FUEL AND UTILITIES-Coal: Freight rate nearest mines $4.35 per ton. Bunker C' Fuel Oil: 6.789c per gallon de- livered in car lots. Water: Hardness, 7.9 parts per million, 600,000 gallons daily available for industry. Power: Virgin- ia Electric and Power Company. Sewage: Gravity flow to Roanoke River. Water Pump: 700 gallons a minute.
EDUCATION-School Enrollment: 2,300; Grade: 1,200; High: 1,100. Colleges: East Carolina, Greenville, 32 miles. Chow- an, Murfreesboro, 56 miles - both co-ed.
INDUSTRY-There are 12 manufacturing establishments in Williamston which employ approximately 713 workers. Principal types are: tobacco, oil terminals, food, lumber, fertilizer, chemical.
HOSPITALS-Number of beds: 65; Total physicians: 6; Total dentists: 2. Name of hospital: Martin General.
CHURCHES-Number: 16; White: 10; Negro: 6. Denomina- tions: Baptist, Catholic Mission, Christian, Episcopal, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian.
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TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION- Railroads: Atlantic Coastline. Airlines: Rocky Mount, 47 miles. Air- port: Class 3. Motor Freight Lines: 4; 1 district terminal. Newspapers: 1 Semi-Weekly "The Enterprise". Radio Sta- tions: 1, TV Reception: Very Good.
RECREATION AND AMUSEMENTS-Theatres: 2. Other: Di- rected summer playgrounds, Country Club, 9-hole golf course, municipal swimming pool, fishing, Pettigrew State Park, 50 miles, Teen-Age Club.
CULTURAL, ETC .- Civic Clubs: Rotary, Lions, Book Club, Kiwanis, Ruritans, Masons, Eastern Star, Woman's Club, Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, Amer- ican Legion, Moose Club.
HOTELS AND MOTELS-Number of motels: 5; Total rooms: 100. Tourist Inn and Tourist Home: 3.
PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH:
WILLIAMSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
August, 1960 Economic Data
Location
Martin County is situated in Eastern North Carolina on the South bank of the Roanoke River. Williamston, the county seat, was incorporated as a town in 1779. Located near the center of the county on the south bank of the Roanoke, William- ston is in the center of a geographic circle, which, at a dis- tance of approximately 100 miles, encompasses the state capi- tal at Raleigh, the busy seaport of Norfolk, historic Roanoke Island and the beaches of Dare County and the U. S. Marine Base at Camp Lejeune. It is easily accessible by land trans- portation of all kinds, has a navigable waterway, and is only 50 to 60 miles from commercial airports at Rocky Mount, Eliz- abeth City and New Bern.
Population
The 1960 U. S. Census gives the population for the county as an estimated 28,000 and for Williamston 6,904. The town in the center of a trading area with a radius of 25 miles in which are located approximately 65,000 people.
History
The first mentioned date of its located in recorded history is 1587 when white colonists are said to have reached this far in exploring the Roanoke River. The explorers landed on the river bank for an overnight stay, but were driven back to their boats by the Tuscarora Indians in what may have been the first battle in history between the American Red Man and English speaking whites. First called Skewarky, the town was later renamed Williamston in honor of Colonel William Wil- liams of the Martin County Militia.
Transportation
It has been the state and federal highways constructed that have served most to stimulate Williamston's emergence
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as a hub. These highways, U. S. 13, 17, and 64 and N. C. 125, connect Williamston directly with Norfolk, Elizabeth City and Portsmouth to the north, with Wilmington and Charleston to the south, with Manteo to the east, with Raleigh and Memphis to the west, with U. S. Highway 301 to the northwest, and with Goldsboro to the southwest. These roads channel into and out of Williamston all kinds of commerce associated with eastern North Carolina. They also serve the heavy tourist and local pas- senger traffic, and the passenger buses of Carolina Trail- ways. Williamston has freight and express services over the facilities of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company, and it is located only 20 miles from the main line of the Norfolk and Southern Railway Company at the ACL terminus at Plymouth. Several truck lines serve Williamston, one of which, Thurston Motor Lines, has a modern terminal here. Nearest commer- cial Air Service is 48 miles west at Rocky Mount, North Caro- lina, which is served by Capital Airlines.
Utilities
As the Carolina Division and fifteen-county Albemarle Dis- trict headquarters of the Virginia Electric and Power Compa- ny, Williamston is a virtual nerve center for power distribu- tion over the entire keystone corner of the state. Out of the local office, also, nearly 20,000 electric customer accounts are handled including several towns and REA co-operatives served at wholesale. This office moved into a new quarter-million dol- lar headquarters building in December, 1958; and this building and its grounds are considered to be one of the section's most attractive commercial establishments. Williamston is also an important operations center for the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company which has 2,227 telephones in service. Both utilities have the most modern of plant equipment and have capacities for almost unlimited load growth.
Water for Williamston's needs is supplied from several deep wells which have a maximum capacity of about 1,750,000 gallons per day. The storage capacity totals 624,000 gallons and the present average use per day is approximately 500,000 gal- lons. The quality of the water from these wells is very good, with an average hardness content of as little as six parts per million. In addition to the well supply, water from the Roanoke River, which has a minimum flow of 538,800 gallons per min- ute, is satisfactory for industrial and domestic use after filtra- tion.
Of some 25 miles of streets within Williamston, approxi- mately 40 percent are surfaced, three more miles are grav- eled, and approximately 50 percent of the total are curbed and guttered. Refuse disposal is made on a state approved land fill located one mile east of town, and collections of refuse are made daily in the business districts and three times weekly in the residential areas.
Government and Taxes
Williamston has a commission form of town government composed of a Mayor and five commissioners elected as a group every odd calendar year. The town has an assessed prop- erty valuation, based at 25 percent of actual, of $6,709,058 in 1958 with a $2.00 per $100.00 tax rate. The bonded indebted- ness at the time was $366,500 and other obligations of $50,- 000.00.
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Finance
To finance its growth, Williamston is served by two banks, Branch Banking and Trust Company and Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, with total deposits of $8,875,105.04 (January 1, 1959), total resources of $9,168,864.12 (January 1, 1959), and by the Martin County Savings and Loan Association with total assets of $4,227,790.90 (December 31, 1958). In addition to these institutions, a number of insurance companies and other finan- cing agencies find the Williamston area attractive for invest- ment.
Cultural
Williamston boasts a full quota of civic clubs, approxi- mately 15 in number, and their activities are numerous and varied. There are two libraries with a total of 3600 volumes. A $30,000.00 library is under construction. A $45,000.00 Masonic Temple is also being constructed.
Education
The school program covers from kindergarten, age of four, through the twelfth grade of high school with a full curriculum program. Two high schools and two grade schools have a com- bined enrollment of nearly 4,000 children of Williamston and the surrounding rural areas. Nearby colleges include East Carolina, 30 miles away at Greenville, Atlantic Christian, 55 miles away at Wilson, Chowan, 56 miles away at Murfrees- boro, and State Teachers, 65 miles away at Elizabeth City. Martin County has an excellent system for school bus transpor- tation and the state-supported education system is very pro- gressive.
Recreation
The community is served by one drive-in and one uptown theatre. And on the south side of the town is located one of the most modern country clubs in eastern North Carolina. Boast- ing a lavish club house, a nine hole golf course and two tennis courts, with a growing fund for a swimming pool, the Roanoke Country Club is considered one of the section's show places, and hardly a week passes when it is not the scene of an area or sectional meeting. Williamston also has a swimming pool, operated by private management, and there is an unusually well balanced program of youth activities within the town.
For the sportsman, Williamston's position on the map could hardly be more strategic. The Roanoka River is rapidly gaining fame for its vast stock of game fish. Bass, crappie, and perch are increasing in large numbers not only on the river proper but within its tributaries as well.
The lowlands of the river abound in game of all kinds. The range of this game is from squirrel to deer, and the abundance of the latter has attracted governors and U. S. Senators and people of many other prominent positions to the section.
Within easy reach of Williamston, some 70 miles away, is one of the most widely known wild fowl hunting centers in the country. This refuge at Lake Mattamuskeet is the winter home of thousands of Canadian geese which attract hunters from widely spread parts of the country.
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Health
Six physicians, two dentists, and two optometrists serve the town. Martin General Hospital has 65 beds, and the Martin County Health Center provides public health services to the community.
Agriculture
A rich agricultural region, Martin County has more culti- vated area than many coastal counties, due mainly to its high- er ground. Many large and productive farms are located on the high plateau bordering the Roanoke River in the northern part of the county. Williamston, the county seat, is the marketing center for the surrounding rich agricultural area. Tobacco, peanuts and corn are the leading cash crops in the county. Other crops produced include cotton, Irish potatoes, sweet po- tatoes, soy beans, hay and oats. The raising of livestock is be- coming increasingly important within the county, and more dairy products are being sold than ever before. Poultry raising has been on the rise for the past two years. The number of hogs raised for market has also rapidly increased. Sixty-nine per- cent of the land is in farms, 43 percent of which is wooded and 36 percent harvested. The 2,000 farms in the county average approximately 50 acres of cleared land. Fifty-nine percent of the farms are operated by tenants and 41 percent by owners.
Industry
The industries are varied, ranging from fertilizer, insecti- cides and irrigation products to several large sawmills using the abundant supply of the timber in the area, a plywood plant, a veneer plant, tobacco marketing warehouses, peanut pro- cessing plant, four oil terminals, a truck terminal, a wood working plant, and a tobacco redrying plant and a food pro- cessing plant, Martindale Foods, Inc. The latter, which was or- ganized through the efforts of the local Chamber of Commerce, is recognized by state leaders as one of the most outstanding projects to ever be developed by local initiative. The Indus- trial Development Committee of the Chamber of Commerce has secured a sewing plant to start operation within the next few days with approximately 150 employees, the majority which will be women. Also, located in the eastern portion of the county is a large pulp mill which manufactures paper for com- mercial packaging.
Climate
Williamston is approximately 72.5 feet above mean sea level and has an average annual precipitation of 49.73 inches which is almost perfect for its agricultural economy. Its aver- age temperatures for January and July 44.2 and 79.4 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively, are also conductive to agriculture and to comfortable year-round living.
Labor
The Williamston labor market consists of approximately 50 percent native born white and 50 percent native born negro citizens. These groups can and do work together harmoniously in Williamston. No major nor long-time strikes or other impor- tant labor disturbances have been recorded for many years. An abundant supply of potential workers is in the area; a re-
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cent labor survey shows a complete picture of the labor mar- ket for this immediate area.
What's In Williamston?
FIRST: A community spirit which has created a busy and attractive town with the Roanoke River as its principal natural resource and a wonderful year-round climate. This spirit was manifested vividly when the town voted recently in an over- whelming manner on a bond issue for improvements to the water, sewerage and a new town hall.
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