Excerpt from Miller's North Wilkesboro, N. C. City Directory, Including Wilkesboro, 1953-1954, Vol. 3: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory Confidence in the growth of North Wilkesboro, in its wealth, industry 1 population, as well as in the advancement of its municipal and social yities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for y, the directory is a mirror reflecting North Wilkesboro to the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Miller's North Wilkesboro, N. C., City Directory, 1948-1949, Vol. 2: Including Wilkesboro Southern Directory Company, publishers of the North Wilkesboro city directory, takes pleasure in presenting the 1948 - 49 edition to the general public. The work embodies all available and vital data relating to the civic, commercial, financial, social and industrial interests and activities of the municipality, and the publishers add their assurance that the work is complete in all its parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Miller's Shelby, North Carolina, City Directory, 1953-1954, Vol. 10: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory A new and delightful 00 municipal park and recreation facilities, five supervised playgrounds, totalling 120 acres, help to make Shelby a pleasant place to live A lighted athletic field, seating municipal swimming pool, and golf course, together with a private golf course and country club greatly add to the recreational facilities Also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Miller's North Wilkesboro, N. C., City Directory, Including Wilkesboro, 1939-1940, Vol. 1: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places North Wilkesboro's industrial history dates from the year 1889, when Arthur A Finley and I Gordon Hackett, who were born and reared in the county, established a lumber and mill working plant on the north side of Heddies River. The plant started right off manufacturing building materials and has been running ever since. In 1890, when North Wilkesboro acquired its name, this plant was the first manufacturing enterprise that the town had In the next few years, there were located in the town the C C Smoot Sons Company tannery, which was the largest in the South and is now owned by the International Shoe Company; Forest Furniture Company; Oak Furniture Company; Turner - White Casket Company, and other plants. Today there are five furniture factories, one tannery, one cotton mill, one hosiery mill, one casket factory, one grist mill and saw mill factory, one butter and cheese factory, one roller mill, one mirror factory, three wood working plants and other plants, making a total of twenty indus trial plants in N orth Wilkesboro. North Wilkesboro's industrial expansion has been steady. It is known today as a leading furniture manufacturing center. Some of its manufactured products are shipped to points all over the United States and into foreign countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Miller's Asheboro, N. C. City Directory, 1953-1954, Vol. 7: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory Halfway between the Atlantic beaches and the Great Smokies, in the heart of the agriculturally rich and industrially thriving Piedmont sec tion of North Carolina, Asheboro is the county seat of 800-square-mi1e Randolph County and is located nearly, if not exactly, in the geographic al center of the state. It is about 180 miles east of Asheville, and is approximately the same number of miles northwest of Wilmington. It is 26 miles south of Greensboro and 56 miles north of Pinehurst, the famous Winter resort. The elevation of the city is 860 feet above sea level. The heart of the business district is on the highest level between two extensive water sheds, giving the city adequate drainage and freedom from floods. Streams on the eastern side of the city flow into Deep River and thence into the Cape Fear, While drainage on the western side of the city is into the Uwharrie River and thence into the Yadkin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.