Hill's Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory [1958], Part 2

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 880


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Labor


Greater than any other resource of Piedmont Carolinas is the character of its men and women. This has made the industrial development possible and at- tracted a host of manufacturers.


Long before the Revolution these pioneers ranged down the valleys of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania, Maryland and other states. Largely of English stock, with admixtures of German and Scotch-Irish, they settled in the hilly Piedmont section. Their descendants are true to those early traditions. They are energetic and ambitious. It is these qualities that years ago overcame the handicap of debt and stagnation left by the Civil War. They are keen to take their place in the forefront of the nation's development.


Manufacturers coming from older, over-industrialized sections, have been struck by the ready intelligence of these people, their eagerness to be taught, and their loyalty.


National Market


Piedmont Carolinas is 300 miles closer to the country's center of population than, for example, New York City. Based on the Life Insurance Sales Research Bureau studies, careful percentages have been worked out for every county in the U. S. in terms of ability to buy.


A 600-mile circle (the economical marketing radius) center on New York reaches 44.5 per cent of the national purchasing power. Centered on areas farther north and east, a smaller proportion of the national market will be in- cluded.


A similar circle drawn from Piedmont Carolinas embraces 66.8 per cent of the country's purchasing power-a 50 per cent greater availability to the national market.


Cost of Living


It has been estimated by one authority that the cost of living averages each Piedmont workman several dollars per week less than an equal standard of living costs in more highly industrialized parts of the country. Houses cost less; food costs less. The mild climate requires lower fuel and clothing costs. Naturally labor costs less.


CIVIC FEATURES Location and Area


Alamance County is located in the famous rapidly-developing industrial area known as the Piedmont Section. It lies between north latitude 35 degrees 52 minutes and 36 degree 17 minutes and west longitude 79 degrees 16 minutes and 79 degrees 34 minutes, in the north central section of the state. (Burling- ton's altitude is 656 feet). The county has 492 square miles land area, or 314, - 880 acres.


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 Caro- lina: "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 ad- venturer, 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."


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Burlington High School Stadium


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 a four- mile radius will take in over 50,000, or over 50 per cent of the population of the entire county.


The following are 1950 population percentages for Burlington:


Native white .


88.0 per cent


Foreign-born white 0.6 per cent Negro 11.4 per cent


Total native-born


99.4 per cent


The population of Alamance County during the 1940-1950 decade increased 25 per cent, while the population of Burlington increased 100 per cent.


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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 Bur- lington, within North Carolina, are at least seventeen white colleges and univer- sities 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 institu- tions 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.


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 1956 the faculty consisted of 256 teachers, the enrollment of students being a total of 7,930. 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 stenographic instruction.


There are also several private kindergartens and a parochial school.


LIBRARY-A public library, supported by the City and County, has 37,000 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 hour's ride of the noted beach resorts along the coast, the nationally-known sandhill resorts around Southern Pines and Pine- hurst, 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 coast and there is also excellent fishing along the coastal sounds and in the lakes and streams of the interior.


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 18-hole golf course, new 18-hole public golf course, "Sham- rock", four theatres, and a year-'round recreation commission program. A large park with stadium, swimming pool and complete recreational facilities are available for the public.


Burlington has a new community center operating as a YMCA offering an organized recreational program for men, women and children.


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.


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The volume of retail business in Alamance County, was $73,255,000 in 1955, and of this amount, Burlington's stores did a retail volume of $51,656,000. Bur- lington ranks eleventh in population in the state, but rated tenth in retail sales. Per capita annual income for Burlington is $1,757, and per family, $6,214. The city is rated 11th among North Carolina cities in effective buying income, 5th per capita and fifth 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 per cent of those in the Burlington area buy in Burlington.


Alamance Hotel


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 ball- room on the second floor; and the Piedmont 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.


Financial Institutions


Two commercial and two industrial banks. Two building and loan associa- tions. 8 personal small-loan companies within the city, which are in position to handle local commercial 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.


Freight service time between Burlington


and New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore


Knoxville .


Two days


Savannah and Atlanta Three days


New Orleans Four days


Memphis


Four days


Chicago .


Five days


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Six package cars operate daily to junction points. Daily through freight serv- ice is furnished on three of four trains each way. Local freight service both ways every other day, switching service to and from Greensboro each day ex- cept 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 equal- ly prompt proportionate to distance.


BUS-Hourly passenger bus schedules are maintained in every direction, making connections 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 to nearby industrial 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 Serv- ice, 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 pas- senger routes. Fairchild Field, east of the city, is operated by the Alamance Flying Service.


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 the 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.


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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 popu- lation of 24,560. 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 number of plants. The first hosiery mill here, the Daisy, was established in 1896, followed a few years later by the Bur- lington 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 expansion 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 in- dustry to the forefront, making the city known for dress goods, art silk, tap- estries, 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 Burlington and the county. This plant was purchased by Bur- lington 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. In 1946 Western Electric Company established a plant here which produces electronic equipment and works about 3,500 people.


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 sup- plies.


Among the 3,073 counties in the U. S., Alamance ranks 216th in number of manufacturing plants, and 203d in number of wage-earners.


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INDUSTRIAL PAYROLLS in the Burlington area average well over $90,000,- 000 annually, with 19,000 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 Burlington," declared a newspaper man from another Carolina city, and Bur- lington citizens have made that reputation possible, both by individual and collec- tive community effort.


The late Franklin K. Lane, one-time Secretary of the Interior made the fol- lowing statement in one of his addresses: "The region of central North Caro- lina, stretching from the Blue Ridge Mountains to a point about Goldsboro, is destined to become the greatest industrial area in the U. S., because of its great industrial advantages and economics." Burlington 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 prog- ress, in public spirit, in educational expansion, and optimism 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.


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