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History and Peoples
The following is quoted from a study by John W. Harden, entitled "Alamance County: Economic and Social, " and published by the University of North Carolina: "It is not known exactly when the early settlers came to the region which is now Alamance County, but in 1700, when Lawson, an English explorer and adventurer, journeyed through this locality, he found it heavily forested and in the hands of the Saxaphaw Indians, with only a few scattered whites present.
"It seems that this section of the state was first settled by emigrants from the Rhine River section of Germany, known as the Palatine.
"These early settlers were augmented in 1720 by immigration of settlers from the North, and it was this movement that gave the region its first white inhabitants in any number. These came from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and even the more distant New England. The newcomers were mostly Scotch-Irish, German and English families, the last being mainly Quaker in religion. "
Population
In 1930 the population within Burlington's city limits was 9, 737, with several thousand in the immediate suburbs. According to the 1950 U. S. Census, the city's population was 24,560.
Within a two-mile radius of the City Hall there are now 40,000, while afour-mile radius will take in over 50, 000, or over 50% of the population of the entire county.
The following are 1950 population percentages for Burlington:
Native white. 88.0%
Foreign-born white 0.6%
Negro.
11.4%
Total native-born. 99.4%
The population of Alamance County during the 1940-1950 decade increased 25%, while the population of Burlington increased 100%.
Churches
The essential religious atmosphere of the community and its influence on Burlington's citizenship are indicated by the presence of 37 churches (32 white and 5 colored), including all leading denominations, this being a ratio of one church to every 650 of the population. Total membership in local churches is around 18, 000.
Education
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES-Within a two-hour automobile ride of Burlington, within North Carolina, are at least seventeen white colleges and universities of the first rank, and several within this radius in the neighboring state of Virginia, making a total of more than twenty. Of these, four are State institutions and ten are denominational. There also are a number of Negro educational institutions, State, denominational and private, within the same area.
Elon College, supported by the Christian Church, is located four miles from Burlington, and is one of the best equipped educational institutions in the state, as to buildings, strength of faculty, and equipment.
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Walter Williams High School
Burlington High School Stadium
CITY SCHOOLS-The Burlington city public schools rank among the best in the state. The local school district has eighteen buildings, of which thirteen are white and five Negro, the district embracing Burlington and its suburbs. At the close of 1951 the faculty consisted of 191 teachers, the enrollment of students being a total of 5,830. Classroom and laboratory equipment, library, auditorium, gymnasium and playground facilities are adequate.
The public school system is governed by a local board of education and a superintendent under the supervision of the State School Commission, and is financed principally from State funds, the State having assumed the support of all public schools through a state-wide system set up in 1933 by legislative act.
Burlington has a business college giving commercial classes, bookkeeping and steno- graphic instruction.
There are also several private kindergartens and a parochial school.
LIBRARY-A public library, supported by the City and County, has 35,298 volumes, while the circulation for home use in one year totaled 228, 682. This does not include use within branch school libraries.
Recreation
Burlington is within a few hours' ride of the noted beach resorts along the coast, the nationally-known sandhill resorts around Southern Pines and Pinehurst, and the far-famed summer mountain resorts surrounding Asheville, in the western part of the state.
There are many game preserves in the area. Bear and deer are found in coastal and mountain counties. Raccoons, foxes, opossums, quail and rabbits are available throughout the state. Brant, ducks, geese and other migratory birds winter in large numbers on the coastand there is also excellent fishing along the coastal sounds and in the lakes and streams of the interior.
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Within an easily-accessible distance of Burlington are excellent hunting and many streams and lakes for fishing.
Within the city are playgrounds at each of the schools, baseball and football fields, several parks, a number of tennis courts, the Alamance Country Club with an excellent nine-hole golf course, four theatres, and a year-'round recreation commission program. A large park with stadium, swimming pool and complete recreational facilities will be completed soon.
COMMERCIAL FEATURES
Trade Area
Burlington's retail and wholesale trade area covers a radius of fifteen to twenty miles, including all of Alamance County and parts of the five adjoining counties, this area having a population of over 125, 000.
The volume of retail business in Alamance County, according to Sales Management Magazine, was $56, 302, 000 last year, and of this amount, Burlington's stores did a retail volume of $40,046,000. Burlington ranks eleventh in population in the state, but rated ninth in retail sales. Per capita annual income for Burlington is $1,597, and per family, $6,016. The city is rated third among North Carolina cities in effective income per capita and per family.
Local Stores
A recent survey of the nearby trade area indicated the decided preference of customers within Burlington's area for patronizing local stores, because of the excellent quality and service, the variety and the prices of commodities, which compared favorably with those of cities much larger. There is a very small percentage of mail-order and out-of-town shopping. Approximately 88. 4% of those in the Burlington area buy in Burlington.
Hotels
The city has two commercial hotels-the Alamance, with a capacity of 200, there being a total of 85 rooms (24 double and 61 single), all with bath, on the first floor a dining-room, on the mezzanine a private dining-room, and a ballroom on the second floor; and the Pied- mont Hotel, with a capacity of 100, having a total of 68 rooms, of which 53 are single and 15 double, some with bath and some without.
There also are a large number of private rooming houses and boarding houses, as well as ten apartment houses.
Alamance Hotel
Financial Institutions
Two commercial and two industrial banks. Two building and loan associations. Three personal small-loan companies within the city, which are in position to handle local com- mercial and financing needs along sound lines.
Transportation
RAIL-Railway passenger and freight service over the Southern Railway lines connects with all other rail routes, there being three passenger trains each way daily, with through Pullman and sleeper service to important points. Burlington is only one night out of New York by rail.
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Freight service time between Burlington and New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
Two days
Knoxville Three days
Savannah and Atlanta
New Orleans . Four days
Memphis Four days
Chicago
Five days
Six package cars operate daily to junction points. Daily through freight service is fur- nished on three of four trains each way. Local freight service both ways every other day, switching service to and from Greensboro each day except Saturday. Local side-trackage sufficient for some 600 cars.
EXPRESS-Adequate express facilities are furnished by the Railway Express Agency. Express delivery time: Between Burlington and New York City, 16 to 17 hours; Washington, eleven hours; and other major points on schedules equally prompt proportionate to distance.
BUS-Hourly passenger bus schedules are maintained in every direction, making con- nections for all points, while several short-line bus services are in operation to nearby towns and a local bus service operates on regular routes within the city and tonearby indus- trial sections. There is, of course, adequate local taxicab service.
MOTOR TRUCK-Twelve long-distance motor truck freight lines with local terminals operate from or through Burlington on daily schedules north and south to the larger cities, making connections for Western and Eastern cities.
AIRPLANE-A commercial airport, operated by the Burlington Flying Service, located two miles west of the city's business section, is equipped with two hangars, and has repair service and other supply facilities, telephone, taxi and bus connections with the city, with several passenger planes available on the field, making possible connections with the major established air mail and passenger routes. Fairchild Field, east of the city, is operated by the Alamance Flying Service.
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Scene at South Main Street City Park
Swimming Pool. Alamance Country Club
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INDUSTRY
Alamance County's industrial history dates from the year 1837, when Edwin M. Holt, who was born and reared in the county, established a cotton mill on Alamance Creek, four miles southwest of Burlington.
About 1854 this mill began the production of colored woven cotton fabrics, the first in the South to produce this material.
In 1887, when Burlington acquired its name, there were three cotton mills, one coffin factory, and a few smaller plants. Today there are 30 hosiery mills, 15 other textile and 33 miscellaneous-a total of 78, in a community with a population of 21, 830. There are 41 other plants, principally textile, located in the remainder of the county.
Industrial expansion has been steady. The Lafayette Mills were established in 1881; the E. M. Holt Plaid Mills in 1883; the Lakeside Mills in 1893. In other parts of the county the older plants include White Furniture, in 1881; Durham Hosiery Mills, in 1898; Virginia Cotton Mills, in 1894.
Burlington has become known as one of the leading hosiery-mill centers of the country. According to latest available census data, only five cities of the U. S. outrank Burlington in production, only one of these being in the South, while Burlington leads the South in num- ber of plants. The first hosiery mill here, the Daisy, was established in 1896, followed a few years later by the Burlington Knitting Co., the Whitehead Hosiery Mill, the Sellars Hosiery Mill, the May Hosiery .Mills, and the-McEwen Knitting Mills-the last being the first in the section to manufacture full-fashioned hose. These were followed by many others, most of which are still operating.
Beginning in 1923, with the establishment here of the Burlington Mills, the rapid expan- sion of this group of plants, now numbering seven in and near the city, with some twenty in other cities in the area, has brought the weaving industry to the forefront, making the city known for dress goods, art silk, tapestries, and other cotton, rayon and silk fabrics, as well as for hosiery.
The E. M. Holt Plaid Mills, which have celebrated their 60th anniversary, also entered the rayon and silk-weaving field a number of years ago, and have several plants in Burling- ton and the county. This, plant was purchased by Burlington Mills in 1939.
These groups and several others have made Burlington one of the country's leading centers in this textile field.
In 1942 Fairchild Aircraft Corp. established a plant here, which produced war planes during the war and is now converted to civilian production.
Other industrial lines represented by local manufacturing plants are lumber, building material, brick and stone, insecticides, disinfectants, caskets, soft drinks, ice, mixed feeds, dairy products, baking, printing, proprietary medicines, cosmetics, gas, paper boxes, foundry and machine shops, foods and textile supplies.
Among the 3,073 counties in the U. S., Alamance ranks 216th in number of manufacturing plants, and 203d in number of wage-earners.
INDUSTRIAL PAYROLLS in the Burlington area average well over $60,000,000 annually, with 18,300 persons employed. Indicative of the steady industrial growth, in the past fifteen years, the average number of new plants per year was eight.
THE FUTURE-SOME COMMENTS
During the severe economic crisis of 1930-34, this sturdy city fought the depression and conquered it.
"No town in the state has shown its ability to come back better than the city of Burling- ton, " declared a newspaper man from another Carolina city, and Burlington citizens have made that reputation possible, both by individual and collective community effort.
The late Franklin K. Lane, one-time Secretary of the Interior made the following state- ment in one of his addresses: "The region of central North Carolina, stretching from the Blue Ridge Mountains to a point about Goldsboro, is destined to become the greatest indus- trial area in the U. S., because of its great industrial advantages and economics." Burling- ton and Alamance County are situated midway in this region and bid fair to prove the validity of his statement.
The late Irvin S. Cobb said: "Let some statistician tell a tale in exultant terms of bank clearings and enlarged bank deposits, exports, advancement of wealth and production. Going only by what these two eyes have seen, I proclaim that North Carolina today is the foremost state of the Union in material progress, in public spirit, in educational expansion, and op- timism of outlook. "
Burlington's development, although not as rapid as some other cities, has not, like many of them, been of the "boom" type, or "one-sided, " but rather a steady, sound, substantial one. This underlying economic soundness has borne fruit.
With vast markets awaiting the products of Burlington's industry, diversified farming assuring its agricultural progress, and established retailers equipped with facilities and the experience to serve best their customers' needs, the city can reasonably look forward to the greatest era of firm expansion in its history during the coming years.
The city invites and will welcome and cooperate with those firms and people who believe that character and economic soundness are paramount to mere size in development.
Projects Under Way, 1952
(1) The citizens of Burlington recently voted a $200, 000 bond issue for the purpose of building two swimming pools (one white and one Negro).
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(2) Industrialists have on hand approximately $500,000 for the purpose of erecting a com- munity building.
(3) Plans are being formulated for the erection of a museum in connection with the City Park on S. Main St.
(4) The City of Burlington recently purchased property on E. Davis St. to be used for a new City Hall and other municipal facilities.
(5) The City has purchased the Presbyterian Church property at the corner of Front and Church streets for the purpose of providing off-street parking.
ADDITIONAL STATISTICS, 1950
City
Retail volume
$44, 141, 000
Bank debits
$264,141,778
Resources, building and loan associations $4,260, 000
Water consumption 979, 680, 000 gal.
Postal receipts $441,640
Postal money-orders $430,000
Postal savings
$685,912
Alamance County (including Burlington)
Population 71,220
Value of farm property
$15,680, 000
Manufacturing plants 119
Industrial wage-earners 18,300
Wages, industrial $60, 000, 000
Number retail outlets
830
Retail sales
$60,944, 000
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GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
South
acct
accountant | drsmkr
dressmaker
mfg
manufacturing
s or S.
adj
. adjuster
e or E
East.
mgr
manager
Sav
Savings
admn
educ
education
mikr
maker sch
school
or administration
elec
electrical or
mkt
market se
southeast
adv
. advertising
electric
mldr
mlnr
milliner
ser service
agt
agent
elev
elevator
mono
monotype
al
alley
emp
employee
msngr
messenger
sls
sales
Am
American
eng
engineer
mstr
master
SOC
society
a pts
apartments
equip
east side
examiner
mus
music
80
square
assoc
associate
exch
exchange
mut
nor N
National
sta
atty
attorney
aud
auditor
fdry Feď
Federal
ns
north side
av
avenue
floor
nw
bgemn
baggageman
fnshr
finisher
ofc office
bkbndr
bookbinder
formn
foreman
opp
opposite
sten
stenographer
bkpr
. bookkeeper
forwn
forewoman
opr
operator
stereo
stereotyper
bldr
builder
frt
freight
optn optician
stmftr
steamfitter
blksmith blacksmith
ftr
fitter
osteo
. osteopath
studt
student
blvd
boulevard
furngs
furnishings
PTS
. Postal sup
supply
br
branch
brklyr
bricklayer
pharm
pharmacist
southwest
bur
bureau
gro
Christian
h
householder
pkr
packer
tchr
teacher
Science Practitioner
hairdrsr.
hairdresser
pkwy
parkway
tech technician
cabtmkr
. cabinetmaker
hdw
carpenter
hlpr
hndir
handler
plumbing
ter terrace
chem
chemist or
hq
hsekpr
housekeeper
painter
tndr
tender
chf
chief
htg
heating
pres
president
tob
tobacco
chkr
checker
Hts
cir
circle
Implts
Implements
prin
principal
trav
traveling
civ
civil
ins
insp
inspector or
prntr
printer trmr
trimmer
cln. . cleaning or cleaner
clo
clothing
instr
instructor
prof
prsfdr
press feeder
twp
township typist
comp
compositor
jan
janitor
condr
conductor
jwlr
jeweler
publ
publisher or
U S Coast Guard
constn
contractor
la
lane
purch
purchasing . .. US Marine Corps
cor
corner
jab
laborer
corres
correspondent laby
laboratory R
room
undwrtr underwriter
ct
court
1br
lumber
RC
librarian
RD
Rural Delivery
uphol upholsterer
del
delivery
litho
lithographer
rdr
reader
vulc vulcanizer
dep
deputy
indrs
laundress
real est . . real estate
dletn
dietitian
Indry
laundry rec
receiving
dir
director
Itd
limited
recpt
receptionist
dispr
dispatcher
1wyr
lawyer
refgr. .. refrigeration or
refrigerator
dist
district
mach
. machinist or
machine
rep
repairman or
wks
works welder
dtv
division
mdse
merchandise
repr
widr repair
west side
dmnstr
demonstrator
or mechanical
. restr
restaurant ws
do.
ditto or same
med
medical
ret
retail
yardman
dr
drive
Met
Metropolitan
Rev
Reverend
rm
.. room
drftsmn
.... draftsman I meter rdr meter reader
ABBREVIATIONS OF GIVEN NAMES
Richard
Abr
Abraham | Chas
Charles
.Tas
James
Richd
Robert
Alex
Alexander
Danl
Daniel
Jos
Edward
Kath
Katherine
Sol
Solomon
Arth
Arthur
Eliz
Elizaheth
Margt
Margaret
Steph
Stephen
Aug
August
Eug
Eugene
Michl
Michael
Theo
Theodore
Ben
Benjamin
.Fredk
Frederick
Nathl
Nathanlel
Thos
Thomas
Catb
Catherine
Geo
George
Patk
Patrick | Wm
William
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appr
apprentice
engr
engraver
mtce maintenance
mtge mortgage
solr solicitor
archt
architect es
asmblr
assembler
exam
exp.
express
factory
Natl
foundry
ne
northeast
sta eng
stationary engineer
fi
ft
foot
optom optometrist
str
setter
birmkr
boilermaker
furn
furniture
Public School stvdr
stevedore
bmo. . business
machine
gdnr
gardener
operator
gds
goods
Transportation Service pass
passenger supvr
supervisor
brkmn
brakeman
geol
geologist
photog
photographer physician
swtchmn
switchman
-govt
government
phys
sys
system
grocer
pk
park
place
tel
telephone
cash
cashier
chauf
chauffeur
hosp
headquarters
plstr
plasterer
tmk pr
timekeeper
clk
clerk
inspection
prod
professor tstr tester
collr
collector
int dec
interior
decorator
prsmn
presser
USA
U. S Army
comnr
commissioner
int rev. internal revenue int
Investment
ntrnmkr
public
USCG
confr
confectioner
. construction
kpr
keeper
publishing
USMC
ctr
cutter librn
custdn
custodian lino
linotype rd
road
vet veterinary
w or W
West
whol
whsemn warehouseman wld widow
worker
distr
distributor
dealer
mech
mechanic
Joseph
Robt
Saml
Samuel
Alf
Alfred
Edw
insurance priv
private
treas treasurer
produce trnmn trainman
coml
commercial
comn
commission
prsr
. . patternmaker pub
teleg
telegraph
plmb
plumber or
telev television
hospital
plshr polisher
pntr
Heights
prfrdr
proofreader
trans transportation
asst
assistant
mutual North SS
south side
atndt
attendant
fcty
electrician
agrl
agriculture
electn electro
electrotyper
mn
man ship shipping
sht mtl sheet metal
sinstrs seamstress
equipment
mtr motorman or motor
spl special
srtr sorter
stge
storage
blk
block
genl
general
hardware
pl
helper
carp
chemical
supt . . superintendent
CSP
agency
molder sec secretary
agcy
administrator
mfr
manufacturer san
sanitary
wtchmn
watchman
ydmn
yardmaster
ydmstr
wholesale
representative wkr
pressman typ
USAF . US Air Force
contr
. resides or rooms USN US Navy
Roman Catholic Univ University
station
northwest stat statistician or
statistical
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Guy B. Ephland Alamance Printing Company COMMERCIAL PRINTING ENGRAVING - PHOTO OFFSET
TELEPHONE 6-1881
HILL'S BURLINGTON CITY DIRECTORY 1952-53
Including Alamance, Elon College, Glendale, Graham, Haw River and Hopedale
Copyright, 1953, by Hill Directory Co., Inc. For List of General Abbreviations see opposite page
SPECIAL ABBREVIATIONS
B
Brookwood OH
Overland Heights
BH
Beverly Hills
PH.
Piedmont Heights
Belk's
Belk-Beck Co Inc
Penney's
J C Penney Co Inc
bdr .
.boarder glr
btry fir battery filler
RH.
Richmond Hills
Bur Mills
Burlington Mills
Roses
.Roses 5¢ to $1. 00 Store
CH.
Central Heights
SBT &
Sou Bell Tel & Teleg Co
CCE
Country Club Estates
Sears
. Sears Roebuck and Co
Celanese
Celanese-Lanese Corp
sect hd
section hand
crdr
carder
crlr
creeler
slshr
slasher
dfr
doffer
sm shr
smasher
drwr
drawer
E C.
Elon College
Efirds
Efirds Department Stores
splr
spooler
fldr
folder
spnr
. spinner sweeper
frm hd
frame hand
G.
Graham
GR
Glen Raven
GH.
Grabur Heights
wndr
winder
GP.
Grove Park
wrpr .
warper
HR.
Haw River
. . knitter
Im fxr
loom fixer
W U Teleg
Western Union
mndr
mender
OG.
Oak Grove
wvr
. weaver
Alphabetical List of Names
A A Coal Co Inc Earl B Caruthers pres- treas Mrs Lillian Sutton v-pres Mrs Alma S Caruthers sec 123 E Market A& B Food Store (Cecil H Andrews) 353 S Worth
A&E Motor Co (Saml K and S Theo Anderson) used cars 714 S Church
A& P Food Stores gros 268-70 E Front and 2102 N Main (G)
Aaron Hoyt S (Peggy W) mgr Union Bus Sta h604 S Lexington av
Abe's Snack Bar (Adrian H Perry) 2011 Maple av
Abee Joan Mrs h1 709 Oklahoma av
-- Marian N opr SBT&T r1709 Oklahoma av
-- Robt M (Ruth B) driver State Hwy Dept r1709 Oklahoma av
-- Ruth B Mrs lpr Lorimer Hosiery r1709 Oklahoma av
Abercrombie Allie H Mrs tchr Glencoe Sch h325 Courtland ter
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