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

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1960
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1612

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INTRODUCTION

Statistical Review

FORM OF GOVERNMENT -Council, City Manager.

POPULATION-City, 128,000; Greensboro-High Point metropolitan district, 250,000. 99.9 per cent American-born.

AREA-50 square miles.

ALTITUDE-839 feet above sea level.

CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature, 69.2 degrees; average annual rainfall, 42.5 inches; days of clear sunshine annually, 136; humidity, 42.4 per cent.

PARKS-93, with 564 acres.

ASSESSED VALUATION-$394,725,299, with $1.20 per $100 tax rate.

BONDED DEBT-$28,674,000.

COMMERCE-Latest business census shows 1,096 retail establishments and 338 wholesale firms. One-sixth of the State's population lives in Greensboro's 12-county trading area, one-fifth of the retail sales are made there, and one-fourth of the State's manufactured goods produced there.

FINANCIAL DATA-4 banks, with total deposits of $808,754,380 (Dec. 31, 1959) and total resources of $899,008,351: 3 savings and loan associations with total assets of $78,443,371; one industrial bank with total resources of $1,740,694.

POSTAL RECEIPTS-$3,900,458 for 1959 calendar year.

TELEPHONES IN SERVICE-65,241.

CHURCHES-206, representing all denominations.

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-Value of building permits for 1959, $30,201,554.

REAL ESTATE-37,412 homes with 58 per cent owned by occupants.

TRADE AREA-Retailand wholesale area has radius of 50 miles with a population of about 1,400,000. NEWSPAPERS-2 dailies and 3 weeklies.

RADIO STATIONS-WBIG, WGBG, WCOG, WPET, and WMDE-FM.

TELEVISION STATIONS-WFMY-T V (100,000 watts), and WUNC-T V (100,000 watts).

RAILROADS-Southern Railway operates 18 passenger and 14 freight trains daily.

HIGHWAYS-U. S. 29, 70 (main east-west), 220 (main north-south), and 421.

AIRPORT-Greensboro-High Point Airport is 6 miles from the city on U. S. 421. Served by Eastern, Capital and Piedmont Airlines with 37 flights daily.

AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATIONS-33,651.

HOSPITALS-4, with total of 570 beds.

EDUCATION-Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Greensboro Division of Guilford College, Bennett College, Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, and Immanuel Lutheran College.

35 public schools, including 4 senior high and 10 junior high; 4 parochial schools, including 1 high school. Number of pupils in public schools, 21,058; parochial, 848. Number of teachers in public schools, 857, parochial, 37. Value of public school property, $19,000,000; parochial, $1,900,000.

9 institutions of higher education in the county with about 9,740 students; 34 rural public schools. PUBLIC LIBRARIES-2 in Greensboro with 161,646 volumes. Including college libraries, books total 560,500.

CITY STATISTICS-Total street mileage, 532 with 402 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 205, sewers, 375. Number of water meters, 30,644, electric meters, 81,956, gas meters, 9,867. Pumping capacity of municipal waterworks, 60 million gallons daily; daily average pumpage, 12 million gallons; 360 miles of mains.

Fire Department has 1.49 men with 9 stations and 17 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 182 men and 29 women with 1 station and 55 pieces of motor equipment.

General Review

GUILFORD COUNTY-Settled chiefly between 1750 and 1770 by Ulster Scots Presbyterians, English Quakers and German Lutherans and Calvinists (German Reformed), the county was established in 1771 from parts of Orange and Rowan counties. It was named after the Earl of Guilford. Containing some 624 square miles, Guilford County in 1950 had a population of 191,057.

GREENSBORO-The county seat was chartered in 1808 and named after Gen. Nathanael Greene, American leader in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. U. S. Census figures show steady growth: 1890- 3,317; 1900-10,035; 1910-15,895; 1920-19,861; 1930-53,569; 1940-59,319; 1950-74,389; 1960-128,000. The population is 99.9 per cent American-born with Negroes making up twenty-five per cent of the total.

POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST-Guilford Courthouse National Military Park is located on the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Here Gen. Greene fought one of the final and significant battles of the Revolution in North Carolina and the losses Cornwallis suffered contributed in large part to his surrender at Yorktown several months later. Maintained as a national park, the site has a historical museum and many monuments, including Gen. Greene, Winston, Caldwell, and the famous "giant" Peter Francisco.

O. Henry, one of the most famous writers of this country, was born in Greensboro. A bronze tablet on the Masonic Temple identifies his birthplace. O. Henry exhibits are to be found in the Greensboro Historical Museum, at the Greensboro Public Library and the O. Henry Hotel.

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Dolly Madison's Well- This site, identified by a marker near Guilford College, marks the birth- place of the wife of the fourth U. S. president.

The home and famous classical school of Dr. David Caldwell, first pastor of Buffalo and Alamance Presbyterian Churches, Guilford County's first first-citizen, minister, educator, physician and states- man, are marked by plaques on Friendly Road near their sites.

The Greensboro Historical Museum, containing many well-preserved relics from the city's past, is located in the Municipal Center on Church Street.

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COMMERCE AND TRADE

Greensboro is easily accessible to a 50-mile trade area with a population of about 1,400,000. Re- tail sales for the area in 1958 totaled $1,372,091,000.

Greensboro is the principal market of the northern Piedmont section of the State. There are some 1,500 retail, service and professional outlets and nearly 2,000 salesmen and agents who distribute a wide variety of merchandise of a much larger territory.

The home offices of several large insurance companies, plus territorial and general agencies of many national firms, have given the city its title of the "Insurance Center of the South."

Although not the largest tobacco market in the Old Belt, Greensboro's market is growing the most rapidly of any in the section, Reactivated in 1949 after twenty-five years of inactivity, the market has increased its sales faster than any other in the Old Belt. This growth is due mainly to the excellent management and Greensboro's location in the center of one of the nation's finest tobacco-growing areas.

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GOVERNMENT

Greensboro is administered by a non-partisan council of seven members elected at large who employ a full-time city manager, an office now held by Gen. James R. Townsend.

Good management of the city is reflected in nationally-recognized superiority in public health ad- ministration, reduction of fire losses and low insurance rates, salability of municipal bonds, efficient police protection, well-paved streets, and modern sewage and sanitation facilities. These and other evi- dences of good government have given Greensboro an atmosphere of enterprise and well-being.

Administering the affairs of Guilford County is a commission of five members elected at large. With its county manager, it is generally regarded as one of the best managed counties in the State, and is frequently pointed out as a model by the N. C. Institute of Government.

EDUCATION

Guilford County has nine institutions of higher education with about 9,740 students; 34 modern consolidated rural public schools, and 35 urban public schools with an enrollment of 21,058.

Woman's College of the University of North Carolina-This is the largest residence woman's col- lege, (2,641 students) in the U. S. with advanced schools of music, art, dramatics, bome economics, physical education, and secretarial science. Ranking high among the liberal arts colleges in America, Woman's College grants bachelor of arts and science degrees and offers graduate work. It was founded in 1891.

Greensboro College (Methodist-co-ed)-For a century this college, now co-educational, has been regarded highly as a liberal arts school. Courses are offered leading to bachelor degrees in music, dramatics, and cultural subjects. The president is Dr. Harold H. Hutson. Number students enrolled- 536. Value of college property-$2,740,881.00. Number of volumes in college library-37,000.

Guilford College (Quaker-co-ed) -This accredited liberal arts college was chartered in 1834. Dr. Clyde A. Milner is president. There are 683 students.

Greensboro Division of Guilford College-Organized in 1948 primarily to offer night classes to adults, the unit has now grown to more than 1,500 students. Classes are now offered (1) college gradu- ates (2) college students (3) adults who did not attend college. A new $500,000 building was dedicated in 1959. Dr. Grady Love is the director.

High Point College (M. P.)-This institution was founded in 1924 at High Point to offer liberal arts courses leading to bachelor degrees. Dr. Wendell M. Patton, president. 1,056 students are enrolled.

Oak Ridge Military Institute (R. O. T. C.)-Founded at Oak Ridge in 1851, this boys' preparatory school holds a long record for highest rating by the War Department. Col. T. O. Wright is the comman- dant.

Agricultural and Technical College (N.)-Founded by the State of North Carolina in 1891, A & T is among the largest Negro colleges (2,386 students) in the U. S. Bachelor degrees are offered. Dr. War- moth T. Gibbs is president.

Bennett College (N.)-Liberal arts courses and bachelor and master degrees. This is the oldest (founded in 1873) of the four Negro colleges in Greensboro. Dr. Willa B. Player is president.

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Immanuel Lutheran College (N.)-Senior high school departments, junior college, and a theologi- cal seminary make up its curriculum. Founded in 1903, the college is now headed by the Rev. William H. Kampschmidt.

Palmer Memorial Institute (N.)-This non-denominational Christian cultural school was founded in 1902. Dr. Wilhelmina M. Crosson is president.

INDUSTRY

Of 71,000 persons employed in Greensboro, approximately 23.000 are in manufacturing industries. The annual payroll of manufacturing industries in Greensboro is about $87,000,000.

Greensboro's industrial structure is a broad one. The city has cotton, and synthetic textile mills; women's hosiery and men's hose mills; woodworking, laundry, sawmill, farm tool, machine tool, and sheet metal industries; general foundry and stove works; ornamental iron and steel fabricators; over- alls, work pants, and sleeping garment plants; cigarettes; electronics equipment; fertilizer plants; belt- ing and textile specialties factories; lumber and mill work plants; chemicals and pharmaceutical manu- facturers; coffee roasting, flour and food products plants; auto body builders; ice cream and dairy prod- ucts plants; printers and bookbinders; and a variety of specialty manufacturers.

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Cone Mills, the largest producer of cotton denim in the world, and Burlington Industries, Inc. (form- erly Burlington Mills), the largest textile manufacturers in the world, maintain their headquarters in Greensboro. Two other important Greensboro industries are Blue Bell, Inc., the largest manufacturer of overalls and work clothes in America, and Pomona Terra-Cotta Company, the largest manufacturer of clay pipe in the South. The Vick Chemical Company and its many products are known around the world. P. Lorillard Company, one of the largest manufacturers of cigarettes, operates the world's most modern cigarette factory in Greensboro.

Also located in Greensboro are the purchasing offices of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., and executive offices of Carter Fabrics; a multi-million-dollar Sears, Roebuck And Co. mail order plant; a folding carton plant of the Container Corp, of America; and an electronics plant of Western Electric Co.

The principal industrial advantages are climate, good living and working conditions, availability of intelligent native labor, efficient public utilities, adequate power, competitive transportation facilities, accessibility to raw materials and markets, low taxes and insurance, and good government.

TRANSPORTATION

Regular daily schedules include: 18 passenger trains, 165 busses, 37 airline flights, 14 freight trains, and 14 package cars.

Greensboro is the center of rail, highway, and air transportation of the northern Piedmont. It is served by the main line of Southern Railway (double track) that runs north and south, and 4 branch lines, Southern operated, providing east-west service.

Modern union passenger, mail, and express terminals arc maintained with free pick-up and store delivery on LCL shipments. The Railway Express Agency has express service on practically all pas- senger trains. This makes available passenger train express service at railroad freight rates to all points in the State and to a large portion of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and part of West Virginia.

More than 2,500 miles of hardsurfaced highways within a radius of fifty miles provide a means of easy access to Greensboro for the 175,000 automobile owners in the area.

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Standard bus lines travel in eight directions to connect all principal cities. Atlantic Greyhound, Carolina Coach, and others operate under State regulations and clear through a union terminal.

The Greensboro-High Point Airport, a pioneer in the Southeast, serves the two Guilford County cities. The airport is on Eastern Airlines' main line and is also served by Capital Airlines and Pied- mont Airlines. In addition to paved runways, the airport also has a weather bureau, hangars, restaurant, and complete radio equipment.

Greensboro also has a large number of trucking companies with excellent warehouse facilities. The companies operate large fleets in all directions which adds further to the city's transportation facilities. This, and the density of population, make Greensboro more easily accessible to more people than any other city in the South Atlantic States.

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RELIGIOUS FEATURES

The church has always been a powerful and constructive force in the life of every Guilford County neighborhood. The Quaker Meeting House at New Garden (now Guilford College) was established in 1752 and Old Buffalo Presbyterian Church organized in 1756.

Today all leading denominations are represented-Protestant, Catholic, Jewish-and maintain handsome places of worship. There is a broad religious tolerance activated by progressive ministerial associations and the Council of Protestants, Catholics and Jews.

The social life of many rural communities centers around neighborhood churches, and urban churches also have highly developed social programs.

RECREATION, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Greensboro is strongly sports-minded, golf being the most popular form of recreation. There are 6 golf courses-5 country clubs and one public course. Since 1938 the Junior Chamber of Commerce has been promoting the Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament, which has become one of the best-known tournaments on the national circuit.

Greensboro boasts both a baseball team and ice hockey team. The North Carolina Coaching Clinic and All-Star Games held annually at Woman's College bring high school graduates from more than 110 communities in the State, and the North Carolina Closed Tennis Tournament has been held in Greens- boro cach summer since the early 1930's.

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Nearby facilities are available for fishing, boating, swimming, and hunting of duck, quail, fox and deer. Modern country clubs at High Point, Sedgefield, Starmount and Greensboro have handsome club- houses where many social gatherings are held; riding, fox hunting, musical programs, dancing, bridge, tennis, skeet, swimming and others.

The schools and colleges schedule continuous series of recreation and education entertainment and athletic events throughout the school year, and over 500 clubs aid specifically in many recreational undertakings. A total of 564 acres is reserved for parks and playgrounds, and a full-time recreational director is employed to promote activity throughout the year.

Few sections offer greater opportunity for year-round living out-of-doors or more varied recrea - tional advantages. Pinehurst and Roaring Gap resorts are within two hours' drive, and the city lies between the mountain and seashore resorts.

The Greensboro Historical Association operates a city museum with a special section devoted to native William Sydney Porter. The City Recreation Department and the Junior League operate a junior museum. The U. S. Park Service maintains Guilford Battleground National Park, where a zoo is one of the features.

Commercial amusement may be found through 7 motion picture theatres and 5 drive-ins; 3 roller skating rinks, 3 riding academies, 2 bowling alleys, and ice skating at the new auditorium-coliseum. The Greensboro War Memorial Coliseum was completed late in 1959. Facilities include an audi- torium seating 2,439, an arena with a capacity of 9,948, as well as other meeting and exhibition areas, with provisions for closed circuit television.

With the completion of the Auditorium-Coliseum, the already busy schedule of social and cultural events was stepped up. Regular music and lecture series bring outstanding attractions to Greensboro- concert artists, symphony orchestras, plays, authors and other lecturers-now augmented by circuses, ice hockey games, New York theatricals. Woman's College, Greensboro College, and Guilford College serve as an outlet for amateur theatricals.

The Greensboro Arts Council, Inc., organized in 1958, carries out a city-wide cultural program in both the performing and graphic arts.

For additional information contact the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Greensboro, N. C.

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

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1960 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1960
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1612