Hill's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) City Directory [1960], Part 2

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Publication date: 1960
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1236

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Southern Tile & Marble Co.

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Spalding Greenhouse

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Stewart George K Plumbing Co

Stikeleather J G Co

Stinnette Charles R

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Sullivan Hardware Co of N C Inc

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Sunset Cemetery.

Superior Cleaners left side lines and

Superior Coal Co of Asheville Inc. . . left top lines and 41

Superior Rug Cleaners right side lines and

Swift Delivery Service Inc.

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Talman Office Supplies Inc.

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Towne House Doughnut Co Inc

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20th Century Heating Co.

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United Electric Co Inc.

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Vanderbilt George Hotel The

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Waddell, Sluder, Adams & Co

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Westall Henry Co Inc.

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Whitehead's Flowers

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Williams A C Plumbing & Heating Co

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Williams Robert Rouse .

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Wilson-Hennessee Funeral Home . .left side lines and 80

Wilson Max E Spring & Body Works. .left bottom lines and 10

Winner's Inc . .

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Winter Seal Co of North Carolina.

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Young's Sheet Metal Works .

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Youngblood Truck Lines Inc

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Thrash Coal Co Inc.

Thrash Oil Co Inc . right side lines and 40

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Walls & Reagan Oil Co Inc .

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Warren Stoker Service.

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Western & Southern Life Insurance Co The.

Stroup Sheet Metal Works . .left top lines, X, 90, 148 and

.left top lines and 9 157 56 85 85 127 141 170 155 108 32 34

Skyland Oldsmobile Inc. .right top cards and

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Salley's Drug Store

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ASHEVILLE

"IN THE LAND OF THE SKY"-"EASTERN GATEWAY CITY TO THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK"

(Courtesy Asheville Chamber of Commerce)

Statistical Review

Form of Government-Council-manager.

Population-City proper estimate 70,000; Buncombe County-136,900, Sales management estimate.

Area-22 square miles.

Altitude-2,340 feet above sea level.

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 55.8 degrees F .; average annual rain- fall, 38.11 inches.

Parks-15, with total of 419.6 acres, valued at $516,529.

Assessed Valuation-(City-County)-$193,349,795.00 (1958), with $3.89 per $ 100 valuation tax rate. Assessment based on 40 per cent of market value.

Financial Data-4 commercial banks. Clearings for 1958, $969,510,589.08.

Postal Receipts-$1,041,245.96 (1958).

Telephones in Service-33,427 (Asheville proper) (1958).

Churches-104, representing practically all denominations.

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Biltmore House, home of the late George Vanderbilt, at Asheville, North Carolina

Industry-Chief industries of city and surrounding territory: Resort busi- ness, manufacturing, lumber and tobacco. Principal manufactured products of city and vicinity: Blankets, textiles, flour and feed, furniture, mica products, packing products, fine papers, printing and publishing products, cigarette pa- pers, rayon and nylon yarn, cellophane, and electronic devices, metal products, precision parts for machinery, rugs and carpets, parachutes, baby foods, and glass containers.

Trade Area-Retail area covers 20 counties, with total population of 540, 400, (Jan. 1, 1959).

Newspapers-2 dailies, combined as one paper on Sunday, and 1 weekly.

Hotels-8. Also more than 70 motor courts.

Railroads-Southern.

Highways-U. S. 19, 23, 25, 70 and 74, 34,532 miles of hard-surfaced roads in the state. The Blue Ridge Parkway from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is virtually completed from Roanoke to Ashe- ville.

Airports-Asheville has a new all-weather, night and day airport now under construction with a 6,500 ft. runway and a half million dollar terminal building which should be ready for use in the early spring of 1960. The present Asheville- Hendersonville airport, located at Fletcher, south of Asheville. Handling flights of Delta, Capital and Piedmont air lines, its terminal building houses the Strato Chef Food Bar and the Interstate Airways Communication Station of the CAA. This airport has 3 paved runways, 4,000 feet long, and a complete lighting system for night flying. Air Traffic Control Tower. It is well equipped with 3 large hangars, licensed mechanics and instructors, and 2 flying service opera- tions which have training schools, air taxi service and aerial photography. The highway direction signs starting at the Langren Hotel clearly mark the route down Biltmore Ave., turning left in Biltmore and out the Sweeten Creek Road to the airport.

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Amusements-The Municipal auditorium seats 3,000 persons. 4 moving- pictures theatres, with total seating capacity of 3,592 persons. Also 3 drive-in theatres. 4 golf courses.

Hospitals-3 general, with total of 567 beds, also orthopedic hospital and 2 nerve sanitariums, 1 private tuberculosis sanitarium and large government hospital nearby.

Education-Institutions of higher learning include St. Genevieve-of-the Pines, Asheville Schoolfor Boys, Asheville-Biltmore College and Plonk School of Crea- tive Arts. 6 parochial schools. 15 public schools, including 1 senior high school, 2 junior high schools and 7 elementary schools for whites, and 1 senior high school and 4 elementary schools for Negroes. Number of pupils in public schools, 10,000; teachers, 362. Value of public school property, $10,858,690.74.

City Statistics-Totalstreet mileage, 260.33, with 225.93 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 94; sewers, 200. Number of water meters, 21,821, light meters, 51,414 gas meters, 4,194. Capacity of water works, six billion gallons; daily average use, approximately 11,000,000 gallons; flow by gravity; miles of mains, 500; value of plant, $10,400,000.00. Fire department has 90 men, with 7 stations and 12 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $400,000.00. Police department has a force of 88 persons, with 1 station and 14 cruisers with radio equipment and two motorcycles.

Population

Asheville is the county seat of Buncombe County, and one of the principal resort centers of the eastern U. S. The city proper has an estimated population of 70,000. Sales Management 1959 estimate for Buncombe County is 136,900.

History

Asheville was founded in 1797 by John Burton, and was known for about three years of its early history as Morristown. The name was later changed to Asheville, in honor of Samuel and John Ashe, noted men of that period.

The city has long been a resort center, the first resort hotel having been constructed near the Sulphur Springs in the western part of the city, west of the French Broad River. Later the tourist traffic increased and other resort hotels were built including the old Battery Park Hotel on the site now occupied by the modern structure. Other hotels have been constructed with the growth of tourist trade, through expansion of transportation facilities, including railways and highways into the highlands. Industry and agriculture also have developed in the mountain section, to the point that Asheville has become a marketing and shop- ping center for 20 counties of western North Carolina.

Government

Buncombe County is governed by a board of three commissioners. Ashe- ville has the council-manager form of government, which includes a mayor and six other councilmen and a city manager. The two governmental bodies are housed in the handsome City and County buildings which flank the central city plaza. The city has one of the lowest fire records of any city of its size in the country, due to an efficient fire department, and the police department has be- come highly effective with the aid of radio, cooperation with state and county law-enforcement officers and by means of the police cruiser system. Two police radio stations are located here, one atop the Buncombe County Building and the other, a State police radio station, on the Black Mountain highway.

Tourist Attractions

Scenic and other attractions of Asheville and western North Carolina are always of paramount interest to visitors. The historic Dogwood Trail, a scenic city tour, is open year round to the public. The famous Biltmore House and Gar- dens, located in the midst of the 15,000-acre Biltmore Estate in Asheville, have been open to the public view since 1930. The noted mansion, adjudged one of the finest private homes in the world, was constructed nearly half a century ago by the late George W. Vanderbilt. The House, built after the architectural pattern of the French chateaux, contains a vast collection of objects of artistic and his- toric value, gathered at great cost by Mr. Vanderbilt in all parts of the world. Notable among the priceless treasures on display are the chessmen of Napoleon,

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the ceremonial robes of Cardinal Richelieu, ancient tapestries which graced the tent of Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and a myriad of other rare and precious objects.

Surrounding the House, the vast expanse of gardens and landscaped park presents a great mass of flowers and superbly designed vistas to the beholder throughout the spring, summer and autumn seasons.

In Riverside Cemetery are located the tombs of the famous writer, O. Henry and Zebulon Vance, the Civil War Governor of North Carolina, and the now famous marker erected to the memory of 18 German sailors by members of the Kiffin Rockwell Post of the American Legion. This is the only monument ever erected by American Soldiers to the memory of their foreign foes.

Also in Asheville, in the city of his birth, is the tomb of the late Thomas Wolfe, internationally-known author of "Look Homeward, Angel," "Of Time and the River," "The Web and the Rock," and "You Can't Go Home Again." He spent most of his childhood at his mother's boarding house, the "Old Ken- tucky Home," at 48 Spruce St. This house is known to millions of American readers as "Dixieland," the boarding house operated by Eliza Gant in Wolfe's first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel." It is maintained by the City of Asheville and is operated by the City Parks and Recreation Department, and is open to the public during May through October. It contains the furnishings of the days when the author resided there.

Richmond Hill, home of the late Richmond Pearson (minister to Persia and Greece), is open to the public. It is filled with rare treasures collected from all over the world.

The famous Craggy Rhododendron Gardens, located on the crest of the Great Craggy Mountains near Asheville, are one of the noted scenic attractions of the region near the city. The gardens, which present the massed bloom of millions of purple rhododendron shrubs in June, are reachedby means of a link of the famous Blue Ridge Parkway, and are the objective for many visitors in Asheville during the bloom of the flowers, which is generally around the middle of June, depending on the season.

Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway, largest stand of rhododendron in the world.

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Home of Thomas Wolfe, author of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL, in Asheville, North Carolina

Air View of Chimney Rock, parking space, entrance to the elevator and the Sky Lounge

In the surrounding highland region, the beauty of the Sapphire Country, Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, the Blowing Rock, Little Switzerland, Linville and Grandfather Mountain sections, the Tryon resort region, and the sections near Hendersonville, Waynesville, Brevard, Highlands and Whiteside Mountain are of interest to visitors.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The Blue Ridge Parkway with Mount Mitchell in Background

Mount Mitchell, highest mountain in eastern America (altitude 6,684 feet), and Mount Pisgah (5,749 feet) in the Pisgah National Forest, may be climbed by the motorist.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Asheville is the eastern gateway city to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of the nation's most popular playgrounds. This great scenic region with its majestic peaks and deep valleys, its vast expanse of virgin forests, its clear trout streams and tumbling waterfalls, is a center of interest for visitors. 3,168,944 visitors entered this park in 1958. Excellent highways connect Ashe- ville with the Great Smokies, and on the eastern approach to the park is located

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the 57,000-acre reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Here live 4,000 Indians, occupying their ancient hunting grounds and pursuing their ancient crafts and customs under supervision of the Government.

The Blue Ridge Parkway

Through western North Carolina the "Blue Ridge Parkway" is nearing com- pletion, connecting the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. This great touring route, when completed along the summits of highest of the Appalachian peaks, will be the most scenic motor-way in America, covering a distance of approximately 500 miles, with an average elevation of 3,000 feet above sea level. 4,989,144 persons traveled the parkway during 1958.

Sports

Asheville and western North Carolina comprise a region which is a para- dise of outdoorsmen. In Asheville, four golf courses, adjudged among the finest in the South, offer best grass greens and fairways to the golfer. These are the courses of the Country Club of Asheville, Inc., the Biltmore Forest Country Club, the Beaver Lake Golf Club, and the Municipal Golf Links. Over a score of excellent courses are to be found in the resort centers of the highlands.

Tennis courts, swimming pools and other recreational facilities are pro- vided in Asheville. The City Recreation Park, with its zoo, skating rink, and its amusement devices, is a center of attraction during the summer months.

More than 70 artificial lakes, located in all parts of the "Land of the Sky," provide opportunities for boating, sailing and fishing. Through the mountains many hundreds of miles of trails are open to the hiker and horsemen. Streams of the region are well stocked in most cases with brook and rainbow trout, and of the five game preserves in the western North Carolina region provide good hunting for deer in the surrounding terrain during the open hunting seasons. Bear, Russian wild boar, grouse, rabbits and other small game also are plentiful in most of the mountain regions, and during the open season, nimrods from practi- cally every state in the Union come to this section. For many years, deer, bear and boar hunts have been held in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Game Pre- serves.

Horseback-riding along the many enticing mountain trails is one of the favor- ite recreations among visitors. Horse shows at Asheville, Bent Creek Ranch, Tryon, Blowing Rock, Hendersonville and Linville each year are events of great interest to followers of equestrian activities.

In the mountain region near Asheville are located nearly 50 camps for boys and girls, which operate during the summer months and provide excellent sum- mer recreational programs for thousands of boys and girls of school age.

Golf Course in Asheville, North Carolina

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Grandfather Mountain on Highway 221, temporary route of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Asheville watershed and North Fork Lake as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway

In Western North Carolina also are located the great religious assemblies, sites for summer recreation and conferences for the members of a number of denominations. These include the Baptist assembly at Ridgecrest, the Presby- terian assembly at Montreat, the Y. M. C. A. assembly at Blue Ridge, the Meth- odist assembly at Lake Junaluska, the assembly of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church at Bon Clarken near Hendersonville, and the Episcopal

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assembly at Lake Kanuga. Also, there are the Ben Lippen Bible Conference, Route 4, Asheville the Lutheridge Assembly at Arden, Christmount (Christian) and Cragmont (Free Will Baptist) at Black Mountain.

Climate and Health

An unsurpassed climate, which combines light, cool, exhilarating summers and mild winters, a large percentage of sunny days, mountain-protection from severe storms and a dry atmosphere, has long been a principal attraction of Asheville and the western portion of North Carolina. The health-giving qualities of this climate have been a factor in luring here numerous health-seekers in search of surcease from many different afflictions. Many well-equipped sana- toria for the treatment of pulmonary and nervous afflictions are located in and near Asheville. Most notable among these are the U. S. Veterans Hospital at Oteen, just east of the city limits; the Veterans Hospital Annex, located near Swannanoa, and the North Carolina State Tuberculosis Hospital, near Black Mountain.

Industries

In addition to the large volume of tourist trade, Asheville is a center for diversified industries. Located near here are the great rayon and nylon plants, at Enka; the huge pulp and paper plant, at Canton; bleacheries, blanket factory, and numerous other plants manufacturing mica products, tool, hosiery, dimen- sion lumber, furniture, food products, barrel staves, garments, electronics, precision parts of machinery, heavy machinery equipment, parachutes, rugs, and other articles.

Near Brevard is located a cigarette paper mill, where fine cigarette pa- pers are made from Flax, cellophane plant and other small industries.

The native industries which produce homespun woolens, rugs, native pot- tery, native jewelry, native ironwork, and numerous other woven and manufac- tured articles, are noted throughout the country.

The Asheville Industrial Council is located on the first floor of the City Hall building.

Buncombe County Court House and Asheville City Hall

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Asheville Civic Auditorium

Mineral Resources

A variety of valuable mineral deposits are present in the Asheville area - mica, vermiculite, feldspar, talc, kaolin, quartz, granite, marble, copper and iron of proven quantity exist in this region. Asheville is a mineral resources center, having a mineral laboratory operated by the N. C. State College of Agri- culture and Engineering of the University of N. C., in cooperation with the T. V. A. and the U. S. Bureau Mines. More varieties of precious and semi-precious gems are found in this region than inany other area the same size in the United States.

Agriculture

Asheville is a large poultry, dairy and livestock center, over 500 dairies sellto Asheville milk plants. Three livestock auction markets with weekly sales. Large local production of broilers and hatching eggs. Twelve tobacco ware- houses in Asheville with over six million dollars in tobacco sales annually.

The Asheville Agricultural Development Council is located on the fourth floor of the City Hall building.

Shopping Center

Due to its large trade area and the many hundreds of thousands of visitors touring western North Carolina at all seasons of the year, the city has become one of the finest high-class shopping centers in the south.

Water Supply

Asheville's water supply is the purest to be found. The water, coming from the summits of the high peaks, is noted for its soft quality and its lack of im- purities. The city water system is one of the few gravity systems in existence, and Buncombe County is one of the few counties in the U. S. providing water by means of mains along most highways in the county.

For further information regarding Asheville and vicinity,

write ASHEVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC. P. O. BOX 7497 ASHEVILLE, N. C.

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Hill's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) City Directory [1960], Part 2

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1960 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1236

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1960
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1236