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NELSON'S SALISBURY CITY DIRECTORY SUPPLEMENT - 1962
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METROPOLITAN Salisbury Faith, Granite Quarry, Rockwell North Carolina
CITY DIRECTORY Supplement Edition
VOLUME 40
1962
NELSONS' NO. 1541
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1962 METROPOLITAN POPULATION OF SALISBURY, FAITH, GRANITE QUARRY AND ROCKWELL, NORTH CAROLINA
44,157
This population secured by an actual count of persons residing in territory covered by a House-to-House Canvass under Nelsons' Modern LARN plan.
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INTRODUCTION
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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.
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All people sixteen years or over are listed .:
1 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 professiona firms arranged alphabetically according to classifications.
This directory shows the approximate population of the city and environs at the present time.
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SALISBURY
North Carolina
ALL - AMERICA CITY
Salisbury, the caunty seat af Rawan Caunty, North Carolina is praud af its rich histarical heritage. Naw, however, as the hub af dynamic activity thraughaut Rawan Caunty, it has became ane af the New South's mast pragressive cities.
This is not just an idle claim to fame. In early /1962 Salisbury was named by LOOK Magazine and
the Natianal Municipal League as one af eleven cities ta receive the caveted All-America City Award far autstanding community pragress. Salisbury also re- ceived the Community Pride Award, presented an- nually by Stations WBT-WBTV in Charlotte, N. C., far having made the most autstanding progress af any cammunity in their extensive listening area in 1961.
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 an the site af a Civil War prisan,
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 accredited 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 received 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-Yauth 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 County, Pennsylvania, and moved dawn the "Great Wagon Raad" 435 miles to Trading Ford on the Yodkin River. The Colonial Records of Narth Carolina reveal the names af the first inhabitants of the regian now encampassed by Rowan County. They were Alexonder Cathey and John Brandan, both Justices af the Peace far Anson County in 1749, and some of their friends-the Lockes and Nesbitts. They were here before that date and lived near what is now the Prison Camp on old Highway 29.
The Germans from the Palotinate District on the Rhine River migrated to Pennsylvania in the 1740's and twenty years later followed their Scotch-Irish neighbars down the Wagon Road to Rowan Caunty, settling in the moin alang Dutch Secand and Buffala Creeks in the eastern part of Rawan.
As the upper part of Ansan Caunty (established in 1749) became settled the Colonial Assembly, as- senting ta the requests of these pioneers, established on April 12, 1753, the County af Rowan and the Parish of Saint Luke's. At this date Rowan Caunty included all the territory north to Virginia and east ta what is today Guilfard County and west to the Mountains. Subsequently twenty-six caunties were formed from Rowan. The County was named far Matthew Rowan, acting governor of the calony 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 caurt hause, jail and pillory, according to Gavernar Arthur Dobbs who vis- ited here in late 1755.
Court Records stared in the Register of Deeds Office in the County Court House date to 1753 and consist af deeds, marriages, and miscellaneous rec- ards af value. Papers farmerly in the Clerk's Office such as the early caurt minutes are stored at the State Department of Archives in Raleigh. Familiar names in American history adarn these records. An- drew Jackson, Richard Hendersan, William R. Davie, Daniel Boone, Lord Cornwallis, Richard Caswell and many other prominent local fomilies as the Barkleys, Hoovers ond Polks, all ancestars of aresidents or vice-presidents, appeor time and again in the deeds and caurt minutes of the county.
Rowan Resolves-Two years before the national Dec- laration of Independence and ane year befare the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence o group of patriatic citizens of Rawan County, serving as a Committee of Safety, on August 8, 1774, adopted resalves containing the pioneer element toword lib- erty and independence from Britain. These resalves 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- dissaluble union and ossociation." These resalves are located in the State Archives and are the only ones Mf the many passed in this period that are preserved.
General Greene and Lord Cornwallis, during the year 1781 when the Revolutionary War was approaching a crisis, made temporary headquarters in Salisbury. Lord Carnwallis, British Cammander, took up his headquarters at the house af Maxwell Chambers, Salisbury merchant, formerly located on the corner of Church and Bonk Streets.
At Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele's tavern this Revolutionary War Patriat gave General Nathaniel Greene two bags of gold. At this site Greene wrote on the back of a portrait af Gearge III, "Oh, George! hide thy face ond maurn," and placed the face ta- ward the wall. The tavern was located at the carner of North Main and West Council Streets.
The Trading Path which stretched fram Ft. Henry (Petersburg, Va.) to the overland Indians in western Narth Caralina was the principal highway for early traders into this region and dates trom 1670 when tne German explorer, John Lederer, visited here. Rowan's first murder occurred at Trading Fard an the Yadkin ín 1671 when a Tomahitan Indian guide siew James Needham, a merchant. Here at Trading Ford the surveyor John Lawson encountered the Sapona Indian tribe on his trip through the regian in 1702. Trading Fard, the aidest landmark in all of Piedmont and Western North Carolina was the scene at a barre between General Nathaniel Greene and Lord Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War, and between General Pemberton's Canfederates 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 Lang, 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 iwo-stary 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 secand wife) Long. Above are heort-shaped pat- terns; diamond-shaped matifs are also used in the chimney.
Daniel Boone, a greot hunter and pioneer spent his boyhaod days along the banks of the Yadkin River. Boone's Cave, where the pioneer sought refuge from the Indians more than a century ond a halt ago, is locoted north of the city on the Yadkin River. Boone began his trails to the west from Salisbury as an employee of the Transylvania Compony 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 Transylvonia Company Expedition had its head- quarters ot Salisbury and wos the first successful pio- neer movement in the settlement of the west from this area. The parents of Doniel Boone, Sarah and Squire, are buried 18 miles northwest of Salisbury near Macksville.
Andrew Jackson, seventh president af the United States, studied law in Salisbury far two years under the direction of Judge Spruce McCay, qualified far the bar and was admitted to practice on Navember 6, 1787. Judge McCay's little frame affice which stood an 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 part of the state, is located a half mile east of Granite Quarry and three miles south of Salisbury. This home, built by the German immigrant Michael Braun (Brown) in 1766 served as a fort during the French and In- dian Wars. It is built of native, unhewn granite bricks laid in cement and is now preserved as a museum.
Old Third Creek Presbyterian Church, west of Salis- bury, is the final resting place of Peter Stuart Ney, schoolmaster, who was believed by many to have been Marshall Ney, Napoleon's "right hand." Mar- shall Ney was supposed to have been shot in Paris in December, 1815, but legend has it that he es- caped to America, coming to Rowan County where he taught school for many years until his death on November 15, 1846.
Christian Reid-Mrs. Frances Christine Tiernan - a writer of national reputation, was a native of Salis- bury. Author of many popular books of her day, she became more widely known when the title of one book, "Land af 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 near 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 and Jackson Streets. Beneath this building are ten graves, nine of them covered with marble slabs and one marked by a headstone. Max- well Chambers and members of his family are buried here. The oldest grave here is marked November 22, 1799.
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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 Thyatira 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 Polk, 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 was deeded to the Church in 1767 by John Lewis Beard, an early settler here, as a cemetery and site for a church. Here are buried some of the leading citizens of the city including the noted jurist Archibald Henderson, Col. Charles F. Fisher, hero of the First Battle of Manassas, Sheriff Fielding Slater, John Lewis Beard and members of his family.
Old English Cemetery, sometimes called Oak Grave, is perhaps the first one established in the city, al- though the oldest grave that has been found here is that of Capt. Daniel Little dated 1775. Here alsa are buried English Soldiers as well as some Federal soldiers who died in the Confederate Prison in Salis- bury. The body of Governor John W. Ellis is interred here after having been removed from its original burial plot near Linwood, N. C., his home.
One of the Largest Prison Camps maintained by the Confederacy was located 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 cupola, 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 Stoneman 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 and 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 made by President George Washington on his visit here in May, 1791.
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