Nelsons' Metropolitan Salisbury, North Carolina City Directory [1962], Part 1

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1962 METROPOLITAN POPULATION OF SALISBURY, FAITH, GRANITE QUARRY AND ROCKWELL, NORTH CAROLINA

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INTRODUCTION

Nelsons' Directory Company, Inc., publishers of your city directory, takes pleasure in present- ing the 1962 edition to the general public. A large force of trained enumerators and solicitors worked diligently in the preparation of this volume and we are confident that the result is an authentic and useful city directory.

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FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK

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1. The Buyers' Guide and Business Directory Section contains the names of all business firms, industrial plants and professional men and women. Also shown in this section are display advertise- ments and professional cards, arranged in alphabetical order under their properly classified business headings. In addition to the above, the names of nationally advertised brands and trade- mark articles with the name and address of the local distributor, or agent, are listed. It also contains the announcements of churches, schools, clubs, lodges, associations and other civic institut- ions.

2. The Resident Directory contains most of the data concerning the individual. The wife's name is given in parenthesis, and the number of dependents under 16 is shown as well as the own- ership of homes. This is followed by position, place of employment and home address.

3. The Householders' Directory contains a complete directory of streets and avenues, prop- erly located, gives the names of all householders arranged as they come upon the streets and avenues, indicates ownership of property.

4. Rural Route Directory contains names of all rural residents.

5. Numerical Telephone Directory contains telephone numbers arranged in numerical se- quence.

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Number of dependents under sixteen

Designation of home ownership

Designation of Race Nationally Advertised Brands

Telephone Numbers on Street Guide

Rural Routes

Number of people in each house or apartment shown on Street Guide.

In addition to these valuable features, the LARN type of directory is more conservatively styled, printed on better paper and more beauti- fully bound, arranged for more convenient use and contains a much more complete civic section.

THE HOUSEHOLDERS' SUPPLEMENT

After including every conceivable feature which would tend to make the directory as useful and attractive as possible, the originators of the LARN type of directory made one more bold stroke-they established a guaranteed HOME circulation for advertising matter by issuing the Householders' Supplement and mailing it to the homes of the community. Every advertisement which appears in a Nelsons' Directory also ap- pears in the Householders' Supplement, making the Nelsons" Directory "America's greatest dollar-for-dollar advertising medium today."

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All people sixteen years or over are listed.

Wives are listed with husbands, the wife being shown in parenthesis as follows: Smith Robt R (Mary L).

The number of children under sixteen years is shown after the wife's name as follows: Smith Robt R (Mary L) 3.

The @ both in the resident directory and the householders' directory designates ownership of the home.

In case of a natural widow this fact is shown with the name of the deceased husband in parenthesis, when possible, as follows: Smith Mary L (wid Robt R).

The occupation and place of employment are shown as follows: Smith Robert R (Mary L) clk Hub Clothing Co.

The residence of each person is shown "h" denoting a householder or head of the family, "r" de- noting people in the home.

Married women, engaged in some other occupation than housekeeping, are listed individually in addition to their regular listing with their husbands, as follows: Smith Mary (Mrs Robt R) bkpr Henry Jones & Co r 210 Main.

Names in heavy type denote patrons of the directory and are usually the leading firms in each line of business.

Colored is shown by a @. The publishers are very careful in using this, but do not assume any re- sponsibility in case of error.

This directory contains all the regular departments of the modern city directory and many features used by no other publisher in the United States.

A numerical telephone directory will be found in the back of the directory listing each telephone according to number.

The classified business directory lists each firm according to line of business.

The numerical street directory lists each street alphabetically and each house according to num- ber, with the street intersections as they appear. After each householder's name will be found his tele- phone number. In case he has no telephone the nearest telephone may be found. The @ denotes house- holders who own the houses in which they live. By using the street guide as a mailing list, a thorough coverage of the city will be obtained without any duplication of names.

The buyers' guide carries the printed messages of the city's leading business and professional firms arranged alphabetically according to classifications.

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SALISBURY

North Carolina

ALL - AMERICA CITY

Solisbury, the county seot of Rowon County, North Corolino is proud of its rich historicol heritoge. Now, however, os the hub of dynomic octivity throughout Rowon County, it hos become one of the New South's most progressive cities.

This is not just on idle cloim to fome. In eorly 1962 Solisbury wos nomed by LOOK Mogozine ond

the Notional Municipol Leogue os one of eleven cities to receive the coveted All-Americo City Aword for outstonding community progress. Solisbury olso re- ceived the Community Pride Award, presented on- nuolly by Stotions WBT-WBTV in Chorlotte, N. C., for having mode the most outstonding progress of ony community in their extensive listening area in 1961.

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THE ROWAN COUNTY COURT HOUSE North Main Street

THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE W. Innes St.

NATIONAL CEMETERY Of rare beauty and historical interest is this U. S. Cemetery. It is on the site of o Civil Wor prison.

The Renaissance of Salisbury has not been so much a big spurt or reform in one area, but balanced, sustained, cooperative progress on many fronts. Con- sider the following developments, all of which took place in 1960 and 1961!

1. Rowan County and its nine incorporated municipalities united for cooperative action as never before, primarily through the leadership of what is now the Salisbury-Rowan Chamber of Commerce.

2. In a one-hour meeting, citizens pledged over $200,000 to the Rowan Community Development Corporation to build and lease an industrial plant, now in operation, which will employ 180 people. And this was only one of twelve new plants brought into Rowan County in this two- year period.

3. Catawba College and the Chamber of Com- merce united in a three-week fund drive which raised well over $600,000 for a sorely-needed community-college auditorium.

4. By overwhelming majorities voters approved three vital bond issues: $500,000 for a regional Industrial Education Center; $526,000 for ex- tension of facilities to newly annexed areas; and $1,575,000 for an additional sewage treatment plant.

5. The entire Salisbury school system, grades 1 through 12, became accrediated by the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, the first system so accredited in North Carolina. In addition, three of Rowan County's five new consolidated high schools reecived their accredi- tation.

6. City planning made tremendous progress with the completion of the Central Business Dis- trict Plan, Land Use Survey and Thoroughfare Plan and initiation of a "Master Plan" for total community development.

7. Salisbury successfully launched and became the home of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, Hall of Fame and An- nual Awards Program. The most outstanding sportscasters and sportswriters in the United States are honored annually in this program, and many of them came to Salisbury to receive their awards. Great national recognition has been brought to Salisbury, Rowan County and North Carolina by this event.

8. The largest Christmas parade in the Caro- linas-an $80,000 Salvation Army Citadel-Youth Center-the Piedmont Players, a community Lit- tle Theatre-a $100,000 chapel for Livingstone College-a flourishing Art Guild-a $155,000 United Fund-a 180 member Industrial Manage- ment Club-the largest Senior Citizen's Club in North Carolina-an urban redevelopment pro- gram-the rebirth of professional baseball-and so on almost without end!

The new Salisbury has new plants and new plans, but, far more important, she has new spirit. Salis- bury's southern accent has become an Accent on Progress.

Salisbury -- Rowan History Is Rich In Drama and Character

Rowan County was first settled by Scatch-Irish wha originally lived in Lancaster Caunty, Pennsylvania, and moved down the "Great Wagan Raad" 435 miles ta Trading Ford an the Yadkin River. The Calanial Recards of North Carolina reveal the names of the first inhabitants af the region naw encampassed by Rowan County. They were Alexander Cathey and John Brandan, both Justices af the Peace far Ansan County in 1749, and same af their friends-the Lackes and Nesbitts. They were here before that date and lived near what is now the Prisan Camp on ald Highway 29.

The Germans from the Palatinate District on the Rhine River migrated ta Pennsylvania in the 1740's and twenty years later fallawed their Scatch-Irish neighbors dawn the Wogan Raad ta Rawan County, settling in the main alang Dutch Secand and Buffala Creeks in the eastern port of Rawan.

As the upper part of Anson County (established in 1749) became settled the Colonial Assembly, as- senting to the requests of these pioneers, established on. April 12, 1753, the County of Rowan and the Parish of Saint Luke's. At this date Rowan County included all the territory north to Virginia and east to what is today Guilford County and west to the Mountains. Subsequently twenty-six counties were formed from Rowan. The County was named for Matthew Rowan, acting governor of the colony in 1753.

The Deed for Salisbury is dated February 11, 1755, although the court center, called prior to this time Rowan Court House, was a bustling little village of seven or eight log cabins, a court house, jail and pillory, according to Governor Arthur Dobbs who vis- ited here in late 1755.

Court Records stored in the Register of Deeds Office in the County Court House dote to 1753 and consist of deeds, morriages, and miscellaneous rec- ords of value. Papers formerly in the Clerk's Office such as the early court minutes ore stored at the State Department of Archives in Raleigh. Familiar names in American history adorn these records. An- drew Jackson, Richard Henderson, William R. Davie, Daniel Boone, Lord Cornwallis, Richard Caswell ond many other prominent local families as the Barkleys, Hoovers and Polks, all ancestors of presidents or vice-presidents ,appear time and again in the deeds and court minutes of the county.

Rowan Resolves-Two years before the national Dec- laration of Independence and one year before the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence a group of patriotic citizens of Rowon County, serving as a Committee of Safety, on August B, 1774, adopted resolves containing the pioneer element toward lib- erty and independence from Britain. These resolves reached the highest note of any passed in the colony in calling for the abolishment of the African Slave trade and urging the colonies to "unite in an in- dissoluble union and association." These resolves are lacated in the State Archives and are the only ones af the many passed in this period that are preserved.

General Greene and Lord Cornwallis, during the year 17B1 when the Revolutionary War was approaching a crisis, made temporary headquarters in Salisbury. Lord Cornwallis, British Commander, taak up his headquarters at the house af Maxwell Chambers, Salisbury merchant, formerly located an the corner af Church and Bank Streets.

At Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele's tavern this Revolutionary War Patriot gave General Nathaniel Greene two bags of gold. At this site Greene wrate an the back af a partrait of Gearge Ill, "Oh, George! hide thy face and mourn," and placed the face to- ward the wall. The tavern was located at the corner af Narth Main and West Council Streets.

The Trading Path which stretched from Ft. Henry (Petersburg, Va.) to the overland Indians in western North Carolina was the principal highway for early traders inta this region and dates tram 1670 when tne German explorer, Jahn Lederer, visited here. Rawan's first murder occurred at Trading Ford an the Yadkin in 1671 when a Tamahitan Indian guide siew James Needham, a merchant. Here at Trading Ford the surveyor Jahn Lawsan encountered the Sapana Indian tribe on his trip through the region in 1702. Trading Ford, the oldest landmark in all of Piedmont and Western North Carolina was the scene of a bamnie between General Nathaniel Greene and Lord Cornwalls during the Revolutionary War, and between General Pemberton's Confederates and Gen. Stoneman's Raiders in 1865.

The Alexander Long Home, 2 miles NE of Spencer, near the Yadkin River, was built in 1783 by Alex- ander Long, a wealthy planter who used it as an Inn for those who used his ferry across the Yadkin. Washington crossed here on his way to Salem in 1791. the large two-story frame house is paneled with walnut. It has large double-brick chimneys which bear, in glazed headers, the letters "A.L." and "E.L." the initials of Alexander and Elizabeth (his second wife) Long. Above are heart-shaped pat- terns; diamond-shaped motifs are also used in the chimney.

Daniel Boone, a great hunter and pioneer spent his boyhood days along the banks of the Yadkin River. Boone's Cave, where the pioneer sought refuge from the Indians more than a century and a halt ago, is located north of the city on the Yadkin River. Boone began his trails to the west from Salisbury as an employee of the Transylvania Company in 1769. His exploits made him famous and he was engaged for the job in spite of the fact that he had a court rec- ord for non-payment of a small debt-fifteen pounds. This Transylvania Company Expedition had its head- quarters at Salisbury and was the first successful pio- neer movement in the settlement of the west from this area. The parents of Daniel Boone, Sarah and Squire, are buried 18 miles northwest of Salisbury near Mocksville.

Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, studied law in Salisbury for two years under the direction of Judge Spruce McCay, qualified for the bar and was admitted to practice on November 6, 17B7. Judge McCay's little frame office which stood on the Library lot has disappeared, but the original old well is still located there. In the North- east corner of the lot is the Law Office of Archibald Henderson, perhaps the oldest unaltered structure in Salisbury.

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The Old Stone House, the oldest German dwelling in North Carolina, and the oldest home in the western port of the state, is locoted o half mile eost of Granite Quorry ond three miles south of Salisbury. This home, built by the Germon immigrant Michoel Broun (Brown) in 1766 served os a fort during the French ond In- dian Wors. It is built of notive, unhewn granite bricks loid in cement ond is now preserved os o museum.

Old Third Creek Presbyterian Church, west of Solis- bury, is the finol resting ploce of Peter Stuart Ney, schoolmoster, who wos believed by mony to have been Morshall Ney, Nopoleon's "right hond." Mar- sholl Ney wos supposed to hove been shot in Paris in December, 1815, but legend hos it thot he es- coped to Americo, coming to Rowon County where he tought school for mony yeors until his death on November 15, 1846.

Christian Reid -- Mrs. Frances Christine Tiernan - a writer of national reputotion, was a native of Salis- bury. Author of mony popular books of her day, she became more widely known when the title of one book, "Land of the Sky," was adopted as the slo- gan for Asheville and the western section of North Carolina. An appropriate marker stands at the cor- ner of Innes and Fulton Streets neor where her beau- tiful home stood.

The "Lecture Room" of the First Presbyterian. Church, a little one-room brick building, is located on the corner of Innes ond Jackson Streets. Beneath this building are ten graves, nine of them covered with marble slabs ond one marked by a headstone. Max- well Chambers and members of his family are buried here. The oldest grave here is morked November 22, 1799.

Thyatira Presbyterian Church, established in 1753, is located 12 miles SW of Salisbury at Mill Bridge. Rec- ords show that a church was here prior to 1752, making Thyotira the oldest North Carolina Presby- terian church of which records still exist. Back of the church is the cemetery called "The Westminster Abbey of North Carolina" because here are buried the most prominent Revolutionary figures of this part of the state. John Knox and Jean Gracy, grand- parents of President James Knox Palk, are buried here as well as Matthew and Francis Locke, leaders during the Revolution. Also two pirates buried be- neath the skull and crossbones have attracted much local attention as to their fate. The ancestors of for- mer Vice-President Alben Barkley, Thomas and Mary Cowan, rest here also. The present church building, the fourth since the congregation was organized, was erected in 1860.

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Salisbury is one of the most beautiful and interesting small churches in the South. This parish was established by act of Colonial Assembly, 1753. The nave of the present building was erected in 1828 on a lot pur- chased from Lewis Beard two years before.

Organ Lutheran Church, so-called because John Stire- walt made what is thought to be the first organ in the state, was begun about 1774 but not completed until 1795.

Lowerstone Evangelical Church was erected in 1796 and stands about two miles from Organ Church near Rockwell. The congregation dates from the 1770's and is considered one of the mother churches of the E & R faith in the state.

The Lutheran Cemetery on N. Lee Street wos deeded to the Church in 1767 by John Lewis Beard, an early settler here, as o cemetery ond site for a church. Here ore buried some of the leoding citizens of the city including the noted jurist Archibold Henderson, Col. Chorles F. Fisher, hero of the First Battle of Monassas, Sheriff Fielding Slater, John Lewis Beard ond members of his family.

Old English Cemetery, sometimes colled Ook Grove, is perhops the first one established in the city, al- though the oldest grove thot hos been found here is thot of Copt. Daniel Little doted 1775. Here olso ore buried English Soldiers as well os some Federal soldiers who died in the Confederote Prison in Solis- bury. The body of Governor John W. Ellis is interred here ofter hoving been removed from its originol buriol plot neor Linwood, N. C., his home.

One of the Largest Prison Camps maintained by the Confederocy wos locoted in Salisbury and 11,700 Federal soldiers are buried in the grounds which have been made into a National Cemetery. Robert Livingstone, son of the famous missionary for whom Livingstone College in Salisbury was named, is one of the Federal soldiers buried here.

The Old Court House of Rowan County now used and known as the Community Building, was completed in the year of 1857. This building is one of the finest examples of pre-war architecture in the state and except for minor changes, such as the removal of a cupolo, stands as it was erected. In April, 1865, Stoneman reached Salisbury on his famous march of destruction and gave orders for the destruction of the gracious building. Mr. T. J. Meroney interceded and at his plea General Stonemon permitted citizens to extinguish the small blaze which had just been set and did not re-order destruction of the building.

The Old Presbyterian Manse, erected in 1819, is now a museum housing many early artifacts of the county and made over into a house museum of the Federal Period . It is open daily and located at 112 S. Jack- son Street in Salisbury.

The Rowan Public Library, one block east is on the site of the first library in the city ond the former home of Archibald Henderson and his son-in-law Nathaniel Boyden, Supreme Court Justice of the state. The library contains the McCubbins Papers, the largest genealogical collection for local history in the state. Also on display here is the copy of the speech mode by President George Washington on his visit here in May, 1791.

ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH One of Salisbury's most beautiful old churches.

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Nelsons' Metropolitan Salisbury, North Carolina City Directory [1962], Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1962 Publisher: Nelsons' Directory Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author:
Publication date: 1962
Publisher: Nelsons' Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 876