Fact about...WILSONNORTH CAROLINA
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The City of Beautiful Trees
The Branch Banking and
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The Largest and Strongest Bank in Eastern Carolina, With a Background of Sixty Years of Safe Banking and Trust Service, Is Keeping Step with the Progress of Wilson and Carolina Home Office — — — — — — Wilson, N. C.
HON. LOUIS D. WILSON
The man for whom Wilson County was named.
The town of Wilson was incorporated by the General Assembly of North Carolina on January 29, 1849. It later became the county seat of Wilson County, which was created by an act of the Legislature in 1855, from portions of Edgecombe, Nash, Johnston and Wayne counties. The new county was named for the Hon. Louis D. Wilson, long a member of the Senate from Edgecombe, and a volunteer in the Mexican War, where he died of fever. The town of Wilson is situated near the center of the county. The county was early divided into ten townships for the purpose of organizing school districts.
The town from its incorporation in 1849, when it was just a crossroads, until about 1890, made a very slow growth. But during the decade 1890-1900, several events of historic importance took place, which had a great influence on the growth and the importance of the town.
First, in 1890, the first tobacco warehouse was built in Wilson. It proved quite successful both from the standpoint of being a convenience to the farmers who had heretofore sold their tobacco in Rocky Mount and other centers, and also as a business enterprise for the owners. From the beginning, Wilson proved popular as a tobacco market. The growth of the town may be dated from this first tobacco sale. During the 44 years that the Wilson tobacco market has been running, it has not only attained eminence by being the largest in the world for the sale of flue-cured tobacco, but justly claims to be the most efficient market of any tobacco belt.
The second thing of importance in this decade was the beginning of the industrial and manufacturing development of the town which was then begun. Wagon manufacturing, cotton mills and the making of cigarettes were all started in this decade.
Third, one of the most important things that happened in 1890-1900 was the building of the Norfolk-Southern railway, giving this town modern connection and transportation east and west. The Atlantic Coast Line had, from the day of the incorporation of the town, given service north and south. Now, by having access to the Port at Norfolk and the Capital at Raleigh, by means of the Norfolk-Southern as well as connection north and south, Wilson was in a much better commercial strategic position.
The fourth thing that happened in the 1890-1900 decade to influence the growth and progress of Wilson was the establishment by the town of its first public utilities. The electric light plant was the first utility established. It was begun in 1892 through a bond issue of $15,000.00. The lights were turned on during the following year. The water works were started with a bond issue of $60,000.00 in 1893. From that time until now our municipally owned utilities have been a source of constant pride, commercial progress, and help toward tax relief to the citizens of Wilson. The water works, the electric light plant, and the gas works, combined, today have a property value of about one and a half million dollars. The annual average profit is about $150,000.00, which is turned over to the public treasury for the relief of the taxpayers, giving Wilson a very low rate of taxation.
Since the 1890's, the population of Wilson has steadily increased until today it is the trading center for a population three times larger than the actual population of Wilson, which is approximately 15,000.
Wilson is known far and wide as a town of beauty, particularly in its residential section. West Nash Street has been selected by many as one of the ten most outstanding places of beauty in North Carolina.
In 1926, Wilson dedicated with appropriate ceremony the handsome one-half million dollar Court House. In November, 1928, the new Post Office and United States Court House was dedicated.
The educational life of Wilson has been one of steady progress under the leadership for two decades of the late Dr. Chas. L. Coon. Thoroughly modern buildings house the consolidated schools in each township of the county. The town also has Atlantic Christian College, a four-year senior grade A College, one-half of whose 300 students come from the county and town of Wilson.
For over half a century, Wilson has been served by two exceedingly strong banks, the Branch Banking & Trust Company, and the National Bank.
In 1932, the Board of Aldermen voted to have a town manager, and this request was granted by the Legislature. Since that time the town has been governed by a manager. This new method of government has proved very satisfactory in the conducting of the town government and in the maintenance of the town's credit. All Wilson bonds are now quoted above par.
Wilson has recently begun the development of parks and playgrounds, and there are now two parks and five playgrounds for use this summer.
Wilson is known as a neighborly, friendly town, and its slogan might well be, “A Good Place To Live.”
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WILSON COUNTY COURT HOUSE
CHARLES L. COON HIGH SCHOOL
The Town of Wilson—Its Form of Government
From 1848 until 1933 the town had a Mayor-Aldermanic form of government. In 1933 the people voted for a Mayor-Aldermanic-City Manager form of government and a City Manager was accordingly installed in June, 1933.
The town is governed by a Mayor and five Aldermen. The Mayor is the chief executive officer of the Town while the City Manager is the chief administrative officer, working under the direction and control of the Board of Aldermen.
The town is divided into five wards. A mayor is elected by the town at large while each ward names one Alderman who must be a resident of the ward which names him. An election for town officers is held every two years and after assuming office the Aldermen name a City Manager. The different phases of the Town's work are divided into departments such as utilities, finance, police, fire, street, etc.
A regular meeting of the Board is held each month on Thursday after the first Monday at which time reports of the condition of the Town are made by the City Manager to the Mayor and Board. Necessary ordinances are passed, complaints and requests of citizens are heard and the affairs of the Town discussed and regulated as the need arises. No ordinance may be passed and no appropriation made other than at regular meeting. The Board holds special meetings whenever the need arises.
Power, Lights, Gas and WaterThe electric, gas, water plants, and distribution systems of Wilson are municipally owned. The Town of Wilson owns 75 miles of distribution lines outside of its corporate limits, and furnishes lights and power to several hundred rural customers. At the present time an extension program is being promoted for the purpose of extending these lines over a larger area of Wilson County.
The Town of Wilson furnishes lights and power to the following near-by towns: Elm City, Black Creek, Lucama, Stantonsburg, Saratoga, Walstonburg and Rock Ridge.
The Utilities of the Town of Wilson, including land, building and distribution systems are valued at $1,948,812.77. The electric plant has the most improved equipment and a generator capacity of 8,750 K. W. The service rates are as follows:
HOME ELECTRIC SERVICE RATESchedule D
This rate shall be available to all residence customers, except business houses, hotels, boarding and rooming houses, public buildings and apartment houses where more than one apartment is on the same meter.
| First | 25 | Kw-hrs. | @ | 8c | per | Kw-Hr. |
| Next | 75 | Kw-hrs. | @ | 5c | per | Kw-Hr. |
| Next | 200 | Kw-hrs. | @ | 3c | per | Kw-Hr. |
| Next | 300 | Kw-hrs. | @ | 1½c | per | Kw-Hr. |
MINIMUM BILL $1.00 PER MONTH WHEN LIGHTS ONLY ARE CONNECTED.
VIEWS OF WILSON MUNICIPAL PLANTS
1. Air View Hydro-Electric Plant 2. Light and Water Plant 3. Filtered Water Reservoir
ELECTRIC RATES
Commercial Electric Lighting—Schedule A
| First | 15 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 9c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 85 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 7.7c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 200 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 6.3c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 500 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 5.4c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Over | 800 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 4.5c | per | Kw. hr. |
The above rate, Schedule A shall be available to all business houses, hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses, public buildings, apartment houses, where more than one apartment is on the same meter. Net minimum monthly charge under this Schedule A Rate is $1.00 per meter.
HIGH-LOW TENSION POWERIndustrial Rate—Schedule B
| First | 100 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 5c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 700 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 3.6c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 1,700 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 3.2c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 3,500 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 2.7c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 10,000 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 2.3c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 20,000 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 1.8c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Next | 20,000 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | 1.6c | per | Kw. hr. |
| Over | 56,000 | Kw. | Hrs. | per | month | .9c | per | Kw. hr. |
| For first | 2,000 | Cubic | ft. | per | month | $1.35 | per M. |
| For next | 5,000 | Cubic | ft. | per | month | $1.15 | per M. |
| For next | 10,000 | Cubic | ft. | per | month | $1.00 | per M. |
| For next | 10,000 | Cubic | ft. | per | month | .90 | per M. |
| All over | 27,000 | Cubic | ft. | per | month | .80 | per M. |
MINIMUM BILL $1.00 PER MONTH.
WATER RATES| For first | 400 | Cubic | ft. | @ | $2.50 | per | 1000 | Cu. | ft. | $1.00 |
| For next | 2,800 | Cubic | ft. | @ | $1.50 | per | 1000 | Cu. | ft. | $4.20 |
| For next | 6,800 | Cubic | ft. | @ | $1.25 | per | 1000 | Cu. | ft. | $8.50 |
| All over | 10,000 | Cubic | ft. | @ | $1.10 | per | 1000 | Cu. | ft. |
MINIMUM BILL $1.00 PER MONTH.
WATER SUPPLYWilson's water supply is taken from a lake at the head of Contentnea Creek. The watershed and storage space are ample to meet every requirement. The filtering and pumping plant has a capacity of 3,000,000 gallons daily. The distribution system and fire hydrant service reach every part of the town. Sewer and water are also available in every section.
The analysis of the water is as follows:
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS (Parts Per Million)| Total dissolved solids | 73 |
| Organic solids (Loss on Ignition) | 7 |
| Mineral Residue | 67 |
| Total Alkalinity (as CaCO3) | 22.5 |
| Normal Carbonates (as CO3) | 0 |
| Bicarbonates (as HCO3) | 22.5 |
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| Hydroxides (as OH) | 0 |
| Sulphates (as SO4) | 26.0 |
| Chlorides (as Cl) | 7.0 |
| Nitrates (as NO3) | .07 |
| Nitrites (as NO2) | .12 |
| Free Chlorine (as Cl) | 0 |
| Free Ammonia (as NH3) | .054 |
| Albuminoid Ammonia (as Organic N) | .022 |
| Oxygen-consuming Capacity (as O2) | 2.2 |
| Iron (as Fe) Colorimetrically | .02 |
| Calculated Hardness (as CaCO2) | 19.9 |
| Soap Hardness (as CaCO3) | 15.2 |
| Fluorine (as Fl2) | 0 |
| Dissolved Silica (As SiO2) | 5 |
| Iron & Aluminum Oxides (as FeO3 and Al2O3) | 2 |
| Calcium (as Ca) | 3.5 |
| Magnesium (as Mg) | 2.7 |
| Sodium & Potassium (Na) | 16.0 |
According to the Federal Census of 1930 Wilson had a population of 12,613, an increase of 258 percent since 1900. If the city limits were extended about a half mile in each direction, taking in the suburbs which actually connect and are part of the town, the population would be about 16,500.
The population of Wilson County in 1930 was 44,914 as compared to 23,596 in 1900.
The rapid expansion between 1900 and 1930 is evidence in itself of the progressiveness of the community.
This section is making a fast upward trend in its agricultural and industrial development, which will lead to continued growth.
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Health Department
The Wilson County Health Department consisting of a whole-time health officer, a whole-time nurse, a sanitation and milk inspector, and a secretary, affords the people of Wilson and Wilson County the benefits of modern advances in preventive medicine and sanitation. This department carries out a carefully prepared twelve-month program, covering school work in all the schools in the county, sanitation in Wilson and Wilson County, inspection of cafes, restaurants, hotels, and markets, the care of indigent tuberculosis patients, holding venereal, orthopedic, tuberculosis, and midwives’ clinics. In addition, the modern methods of preventive medicine are available to everyone free.
Increasingly favorable results of the work carried on by the Health Department are reflected in the incidence and mortality rate of preventable diseases, both of which each year show a marked improvement over the preceding year. Smallpox and typhoid fever have been almost entirely eliminated. Malaria, once a scourge, has been reduced to where it is now a negligible factor in the health of the community. There is also a steady decrease in diphtheria and the number of new cases of tuberculosis each year.
Welfare Work of WilsonThe welfare work in Wilson, both town and county, is carried on by three separate organizations, the oldest of which is the County Board of Charity and Public Welfare. This board is appointed by the State Board, and recommends a nominee for superintendent of Public Welfare, who is elected by the State Board and the county, and is paid by the county.
For the past seven years the welfare work of the town has been carried on by the Wilson Welfare Association, a private organization controlled by a board and conducted by an Executive Secretary. Both the town and county governments contribute regular sums monthly to this organization.
For the past two years, the Federal Government has supplemented the appropriations of the local governments and the donations of individuals to the extent of $325,000.00. This was first known as the Relief Fund, then it was enlarged and known as the CWA, and now it is called the ERA, Emergency Relief Administration. The County Superintendent of Public Welfare is also the administrator and director of Federal Relief.
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Wilson Hospital and Clinical Facilities
The town of Wilson is one of the oldest medical and hospital centers in the State of North Carolina. The first hospital was established here in 1898 by Drs. C. E. Moore and Albert Anderson, two of the state's most prominent physicians for more than a half century, and two of the South's pioneer hospital executives. The Old Sanatorium, established by them, was the forerunner of the town's present hospitals. These institutions include three hospitals and one clinical laboratory as follows: The Moore-Herring Hospital, established in 1913; The Carolina General Hospital, established in 1920; The Mercy Hospital, established in 1913, and the Contentnea Pathological and Clinical Laboratory, established in 1929.
The Moore-Herring Hospital, composed of a staff of four doctors, and the Carolina General Hospital, whose staff is composed of three doctors, are privately owned, but through cooperation with the town and county welfare departments, the indigent as well as the more fortunate patients refer to them for attention.
The Mercy Hospital for colored people only was reorganized on a community basis in 1928. It is controlled by a board of trustees. All physicians of the town and county, both white and colored, are eligible for membership on the staff. This hospital is used by Wilson, Pitt, and Green Counties, as it is the only hospital in these counties for colored people.
The Contentnea Pathological and Clinical Laboratory, operated by a specialist, is designed for extensive examination and limited treatment of potentially ambulant patients. It was organized in January 1929.
The combined bed capacity of the three hospitals and clinic is 135. These institutions are modern, steam-heated, brick buildings, well equipped in every respect. They maintain modern X-ray and diagnostic laboratories and well equipped operating departments, where general and special surgery is done. Men of excellent training are in charge of these departments.
The Hospitals are all general in character, admitting patients, medical, obstetrical and surgical. Isolation wards for contagious diseases are also available. The nursing and general care of patients is done by well trained nurses. All positions of trust and responsibility are held by graduate nurses and those who have had special training.
The Medical profession of Wilson embraces twenty-five active men. The specialists, general surgery, eye, ear, nose and throat, pediatrics, X-ray and Radiology are represented by alert, well qualified men who have affiliations with one or more of the hospitals. The general practitioners are also progressive and highly qualified physicians who have hospital affiliations either on the regular or courtesy staff of one or more of the hospitals.
1. Moore-Herring Hosptial 2. Carolina General Hospital 3. Mercy Hospital (Negro) 4. Contentnea Pathological and Clinical Laboratories
Photo collage of four photographs
1. Moore-Herring Hospital 2. Carolina General Hospital 3. Mercy Hospital (Negro) 4. Contentnea Pathological and Clinical Laboratories
Statistical Data for County and City Schools
| WILSON CITY UNIT | Both units are served by one superintendent | WILSON COUNTY UNIT | ||
| NUMBER BUILDINGS | NUMBER BUILDINGS | |||
| White | Colored | White | Colored | |
| 4 | 5 | 13 | 23 | |
| VALUE BUILDINGS, FUR. AND FIXTURES | VALUE BUILDINGS, FUR. AND FIXTURES | |||
| White | Colored | White | Colored | |
| $544,230 | $108,235 | $800,131.00 | $48,592.00 | |
| ENROLLMENT 1933-34 | ENROLLMENT 1933-34 | |||
| White | Colored | White | Colored | |
| 2606 | 2383 | 4471 | 2883 | |
| TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS EMPLOYED 1933-34 | TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS EMPLOYED 1933-34 | |||
| White | Colored | White | Colored | |
| 62 | 45 | 108 | 50 |
The white high school is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The students who receive a standard diploma may enter any college without an examination.
The colored high school is rated a standard high school.
A new colored school building is in the process of erection for use in 1934-35.
There are six rural standard high schools in Wilson County. Students from these schools make good records in college. This year two of these will offer a course in agriculture for the first time. All the white school buildings are equipped with modern conveniences.
During the past three years there have been seven new colored school buildings erected in the County Unit.
| ELM CITY UNIT | |
| NUMBER BUILDINGS | |
| White | Colored |
| 2 | 5 |
| VALUE BUILDINGS FURNITURE AND FIXTURES | |
| White | Colored |
| $158,400.00 | $10,300.00 |
| ENROLLMENT 1933-34 | |
| White | Colored |
| 909 | 742 |
| Teachers in this Unit 1933-34 | |
| White | Colored |
| 22 | 14 |
The High School Department of this Unit belongs to the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
1. Negro Grammar School 2. Negro High School 3. Winstead Grammar School 4. Margaret Hearne Grammar School 5. Frederick Woodard Grammar School
Atlantic Christian College
Wilson, N. C., is the seat of Atlantic Christian College, the only standard four-year college of arts in the central section of Eastern North Carolina. For nearly a third of a century the institution has been rendering service in the field of higher education to young men and young women of the southeast.
The college is owned and operated by the Christian Church in the Carolinas, but its patronage and support are secured from its friends regardless of denominational lines. Less than half of its student body of three hundred comes from the homes of its own church people.
The college plant is located on a square in the northwestern part of Wilson. In recent years substantial improvements have been made in the buildings and equipment. A gymnasium has just been constructed, walks laid, and a plan of beautification of the campus put into effect. It is hoped that an additional dormitory may be built in the next year to provide in a better way for the increased attendance.
The college has an endowment fund of some $350,000.00 which enables it to offer its services at a very reasonable cost. Worthy students may secure loans and scholarships or part-time employment to aid them in their college career.
It is the purpose of the college administration to fit the course of study more closely to the needs of the present day. A beginning has already been made in this readjustment, centering around the chief lines of human endeavor instead of the traditional and fragmentary study of subjects.
Wilson County LibraryIn 1921 the Department of Literature of the Woman's Club established a free public library in Wilson with 600 volumes. The library has grown steadily. It now has about 7,000 volumes and 7,000 readers. Last year the circulation was 46,955.
Since 1925 the library has been sponsored by the town and county, and is free to all the people of the town and county. The library occupies two rooms in the Wilson County Court House.
Besides being a source of great pleasure to the reading public, the library furnishes parallel reading for the public schools of the town and county. Special attention is given to the junior readers who throng the library for pleasure-reading and for help in their school work.
The reference department is excellent in its wide scope of usefulness.
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Wilson, N. C.
| A college for young men and women. | One Year Business Course. |
| Fine Arts. | |
| Four year courses leading to A. B. degree. | Good program of Physical Education. |
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Thirty-third session opens September 10th.
For catalogue and information write to
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Wilson Churches
The town of Wilson is one of the few towns in America not overchurched. It is fortunate in having a small number of strong churches that effectively care for the religious and spiritual life of the town. It has five strong churches with full-time ministers who are well educated and highly trained for their work.
The Methodist Church is the largest in membership with some 1300 members. The Christian and Missionary Baptist Churches come next with about 800 members each. The Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches have slightly less than 500 members each, but nevertheless are strong influential churches.
In addition to these five larger churches five other churches, smaller in membership, do effective work for the community as well as furnish places of worship for their members. These are the Five Points Missionary Baptist Church, the Freewill Baptist Church, the Primitive Baptist Church, the Pentecostal Holiness Church, and the Roman Catholic Church. In conjunction with the Roman Catholic Church, a grammar school is conducted by the Sisters. The Orthodox Jews maintain a small synagogue in Wilson and The Salvation Army operates a Mission.
The negroes of Wilson maintain separate churches, and the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian congregations are especially large, active and well organized. Six smaller negro churches here also serve this race in Wilson.
In the small towns and the rural sections of Wilson County, there are more than thirty churches of the following denominations: Southern Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Primitive Baptist, Christian, Freewill Baptists and Holiness. The Methodist and the Baptist are the influential churches in Elm City and Stantonsburg.
Boy ScoutingThe East Carolina Council of Boy Scouts has its headquarters in Wilson. The offices of the Scout Executive are located on the second floor of the Court House. Daily office hours are 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
On August 1, 1934, there were in the Council 41 troops with 895 registered Scouts. The Scout Executive concentrates his work in Wilson and Wilson County and renders office service and whatever other assistance possible in a larger area including the towns of Rocky Mount, Greenville, Kinston, New Bern, Washington, and quite a number of smaller towns and communities.
Camp Charles, a camp for all the Scouts of the Council, is about fifteen miles west of Wilson. It consists of 73 wooded acres, a lake, a large mess hall, a craft shop, cabins and other facilities adequate to meet the camping needs of the entire Council. It is used for overnight camping in winter and mass and troop camping in summer. During the summer of 1934 the camp was used for the first time by a group of underprivileged girls under adequate leadership.
The Council affords a well-rounded program of citizenship development and general character education for teen-age boys and for younger boys of Cub age, 9, 10 and 11.
Among the regular features of Scouting in the East Carolina Council are cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce and various civic clubs in the community, good turns, regular troop meetings, Scout leaders’ training schools and advancement in the various phases of Scouting.
WILSON CHURCHES
1. Methodist 2. Catholic 3. Baptist 4. Christian 5. Presbyterian 6. Negro Baptist 7. Primitive Baptist 8. Negro Presbyterian 9. Episcopal 10. Negro Methodist
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Wilson Country Club
The Wilson Country Club was chartered May 6, 1915. During the same year it acquired a 125 acre tract of land between highway No. 22 and the waters of Contentnea Creek, about four miles south of the town of Wilson on U. S. Highway No. 301.
It is now able to offer to its members and the public the advantages of a well-constructed and well-kept eighteen-hole golf course, outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, and a modern club house. It is kept by a whole-time professional man who gives instructions at reasonable rates.
No charge is made for house guests or members. Non-resident guests and tourists are welcome to use its facilities, the greens fee being $1.00.
Nash Street, The BeautifulJohn Muir, the white-haired lover of nature, once wrote, “show me a town that loves trees and I'll show you a town that loves God and all His wonders.” He might have added “and a town that holds rank with any other as a beauty spot.” Wilson is such a town, and it is called a town because its dads haven't yet seen fit to change its charter and label it officially a city. If Wilson is not a city, where is one? And if Wilson is not a beauty spot, also, where is one? Ten years ago the nation's most famed geographical and pictorial magazine picked out one Wilson thoroughfare, Nash street, for exemplification and declared it more attractive and beautiful than any street elsewhere.
Running from healthy, hearty, wholesome farming country on the town's west, Nash street cuts a line, knifelike, through a beautiful residential neighborhood on east into the town's thriving, alert business section, and darting across the railroad, loses itself again in an equally healthy, hearty, wholesome country farther on, three easy miles of wonder street.
If one hunts for beauty he must, of course, start beyond Pine street and journey west. Here he finds a broad, tree lined avenue, and, on both sides, behind broader lawns faced with green and gardened flowers, homes of many types of architecture, ranging from colonial and puritan, down through the category of chalet, Gregorian, cottage, brick and frame.
But it is not the homes of Nash street that offer the greatest attraction. All towns have homes but not all have trees. The high spot in Nash street beauty is its greenness and its trees, whose trunks tower heavenward in some places as their boughs touch the ground in others. On both sides Nash street is enshrouded umbrella-like and offers a cooling and inviting shade for more than a solid mile. New Haven may advertise its elms, Charleston may tell of its Magnolia grandiola, New Orleans may urge you to see its moss hung “swamp angels,” but Wilson invites a tree lover to see trees, just trees.
And when it says trees, it offers an assortment on Nash street seldom found elsewhere. Pecans, magnolias, maples, birch, beech, walnut, umbrella, live oaks, cypress, hickory, pines, and tall evergreens loom up and over the loveliest of crepe myrtle, of pink and salmon hues. Occasionally a startlingly red-barked madrone may be
AIR VIEW WILSON COUNTRY CLUBNASH STREET, LOOKING WEST FROM PARK AVENUE
seen with its great, glossy green leaves, stretching its ruddy trunk skyward for maybe 90 feet, and by its side, a Mimosa with its feathery dignity and simplicity that no man-made work can rival.
These are but some of the Nash street giants of horticulture, but beneath their sweeping boughs one finds also floriculture, man-high ferns, dainty pink oxalis, star flowers, blushing flesh colored azalea and many other kinds of summer garden perennials.
If as Keats said, “a thing of beauty is a joy forever,” then truly, Wilson should be a happy town with so much beauty always evident.
Parks, Playgrounds and ResortsPeter Pan Park is a playground for tots of pre-school age. It is equipped with apparatus for games of various kinds and has a trained supervisor in charge.
Stronwood and Gold Parks are of ten to fifteen acres each in extent, and are equipped with attractive apparatus for games and recreation. Each park has a swimming pool for children and is in charge of competent supervisors.
Greenhill Park is located in the town's industrial section, and is equipped with open-air showers.
Parks and playgrounds in Wilson are well kept, shady and easily accessible to the various residential sections of the town.
Located six miles west of Wilson on State Highway No. 58 is Silver Lake. This is one of Wilson's most inviting recreational centers for both old and young. It is patronized extensively by people of this and adjacent counties.
As a resort it offers swimming, boating, fishing, bowling and dancing. It is also equipped for camping parties and for the serving of luncheons and banquets.
Drink—
Coca-Cola
In Bottles
It Had To Be Good To Get Where It Is
BARNES-HARRELL COMPANY
J. T. BARNES
W. N. HARRELL
W. D. ADAMS
GOLD PARK
SILVER LAKE
PETER PAN PARK
STRONWOOD PARK
Wilson Tobacco Market
Located in Wilson, North Carolina, the world's largest bright leaf tobacco market, are ten of the most modern and up-to-date warehouses to be found on any tobacco market, regardless of type, whether of bright leaf or burley. Each warehouse is designed to give to all tobacco offered for sale by the forty or fifty thousand tobacco producers selling tobacco here, the best advantages possible to bring out its true merits, as to quality and texture. From the time of the opening of the Wilson Tobacco Market each season, up until the Thanksgiving Holidays, covering a period of approximately three months, there are placed in straight rows of a width of 43 inches, with a space of 18 inches between rows, a variation of between thirty and thirty-five thousand baskets of tobacco each day, awaiting sale. The latter quoted number constitutes the capacity of the Wilson warehouse floors, which, in other figures, aggregates a total of 700,000 square feet. The warehouse floors, when filled to capacity, will hold approximately four million pounds of tobacco.
Those huge warehouses, which seasonally operate on the Wilson market are:
Banner Warehouse
Carolina Warehouse
Centre Brick Warehouse, Nos. 1 and 2
Farmers Warehouse
New Planters Warehouse
Smith Warehouses A and B
Watson Warehouse Nos. 1 and 2
To handle the seemingly unlimited amount of fine quality of tobacco annually for sale in Wilson there have been erected nine large tobacco redrying plants which, when combined, furnish a redrying capacity of approximately two million pounds daily, with ten hours as the regulation running time.
With the exception of the Imperial Company, Ltd., each one of these companies maintains storage houses in Wilson, which carry storage capacity of forty-four thousand four hundred hogsheads.
Imperial Tobacco Company, Limited
Redrying capacity 300,000 lbs.
No storage houses.
R. P. Watson Company, Inc.
Redrying capacity 250,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 13,500 hogsheads.
Southern Tobacco Company, Inc.
Redrying capacity 100,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 6,000 hogsheads.
W. T. Clark & Co.
Redrying capacity 100,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 2,000 hogsheads.
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Redrying capacity 150,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 4,500 hogsheads.
Wilson Tobacco Company, Inc.
Redrying capacity 250,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 8,000 hogsheads.
1. E. J. O'Brien & Co. 2. Export Leaf Tobacco Company 3. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 4. Imperial Tobacco Company 5. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Export Leaf Tobacco Co. Two plants
Redrying capacity 275,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 9,000 hogsheads.
E. J. O'Brien & Co.,
Redrying capacity 100,000 lbs.
Storage capacity 1,400 hogsheads.
Those companies maintaining branch offices and green packing plants on the Wilson market are:
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
American Suppliers Inc.
In addition to the foregoing concerns, the James I. Miller Tobacco Company, Inc., and Whitehead & Anderson, Inc. have stationed on this market their head offices from which they supervise the purchasing of tobacco in the various tobacco belts.
During the marketing season in Wilson there are employed daily approximately five thousand men and women, of which number some two thousand are employed by the warehouses.
There are five sets of buyers operating simultaneously on the Wilson Tobacco Market. They are composed of some of the finest judges of tobacco to be found anywhere. At a selling rate of three hundred sixty piles of tobacco per hour, it is possible for these men to purchase on an average of approximately one million three hundred fifty thousand pounds per day, as this is the maximum selling rate for all tobacco offered for sale in Wilson. With seven hours as the regulation sales day, warehouse floors when filled to capacity can be cleared in three days.
Since the opening of the Wilson Tobacco Market on September 19, 1890, Wilson has continually been on the upward trend, until now it stands out in the tobacco industry as the corner-stone of some huge edifice.
| Year | Pounds Sold | ||
| 1890 | 1,508,109 | ||
| 1891 | 2,106,904 | ||
| 1892 | 3,067,191 | NO RECORDS KEPT UNTIL 1902 | |
| 1893 | 3,508,710 | ||
| 1894 | 3,740,422 | ||
| 1895 | 7,680,227 | ||
| 1896 | 10,171,034 | ||
| 1897 | 9,325,175 | ||
| 1898 | 11,569,207 | ||
| 1899 | 18,077,970 | ||
| 1900 | 15,129,708 | ||
| 1901 | 15,273,809 | Receipts | Av. Per Lb. |
| 1902 | 22,296,077 | $ 2,430,272.39 | 10.90 |
| 1903 | 22,201,771 | 1,507,500.25 | 6.79 |
| 1904 | 13,806,479 | 1,465,481.42 | 6.90 |
| 1905 | 15,319,469 | 1,329,899.29 | 8.42 |
| 1906 | 14,242,566 | 1,525,378.82 | 10.71 |
| 1907 | 15,509,720 | 1,702,967.25 | 10.98 |
| 1908 | 18,752,357 | 1,845,222.09 | 9.84 |
| 1909 | 17,071,902 | 1,449,813.56 | 8.49 |
| 1910 | 10,836,123 | 1,167,121.33 | 10.77 |
| 1911 | 8,818,181 | 1,318,998.97 | 14.79 |
| Year | Pounds Sold | Receipts | Av. Per Lb. |
| 1912 | 16,381,076 | $ 3,225,561.88 | 19.88 |
| 1913 | 20,819,160 | 3,961,886.15 | 19.03 |
| 1914 | 29,889,568 | 3,999,224.20 | 13.38 |
| 1915 | 34,170,720 | 4,155,159.64 | 12.16 |
| 1916 | 28,454,333 | 5,753,466.13 | 20.22 |
| 1917 | 33,244,378 | 10,262,539.48 | 30.87 |
| 1918 | 37,815,278 | 13,624,844.66 | 36.03 |
| 1919 | 42,330,596 | 22,720,280.44 | 53.67 |
| 1920 | 62,204,930 | 13,446,382.91 | 21.61 |
| 1921 | 42,864,162 | 12,169,100.76 | 28.38 |
| 1922 | 42,342,360 | 12,679,644.28 | 29.94 |
| 1923 | 71,517,350 | 15,856,451.43 | 22.18 |
| 1924 | 52,931,467 | 14,125,168.21 | 26.68 |
| 1925 | 76,666,277 | 20,514,758.23 | 26.75 |
| 1926 | 69,662,228 | 18,712,054.71 | 26.86 |
| 1927 | 76,563,264 | 12,609,225.08 | 23.00 |
| 1928 | 84,247,626 | 17,202,236.39 | 20.42 |
| 1929 | 82,820,692 | 16,830,792.68 | 20.32 |
| 1930 | 86,096,010 | 11,897,669.55 | 13.82 |
| 1931 | 66,362,724 | 5,992,660.77 | 9.03 |
| 1932 | 37,709,530 | 4,654,830.35 | 13.34 |
| 1933 | 70,552,142 | 11,871,832.17 | 16.82 |
Farmers Warehouse
Sell Your Tobacco At
The Farmers Warehouse
Where Tobacco Brings The Top Market Price.
J. S. Leach and W. O. Harrison Proprietors
A. O. DAVIS, Auctioneer
Highest Prices and a Square Deal Guaranteed to All
YOU ARE WELCOME AT ALL TIMES
Phone 617
Wilson, N. C.
1. Air View Southern Tobacco Company 2. Interior View Tobacco Redrying Plant 3. W. T. Clark & Co. 4. R. P. Watson & Co. 5. Air View Wilson Tobacco Company
Smith Warehouse
Smith Warehouse
“A” and “B”
MOST MODERN AND UP-TO-DATE WAREHOUSES IN THE WORLD
Electric Fans
For Comfort of Farmers and Buyers
1000 Sky Lights
Not a Dark Spot
Rubber Tired Trucks
To Eliminate Noise and Confusion
Clean, Airy, Sanitary, Rest Rooms
For the Comfort and Convenience of Our Friends
Service
Courtesy
Efficiency
Agriculture
Wilson County is termed an Agricultural County with practically ninety per cent of its income derived directly or indirectly from agricultural products. A few statistical facts will give a brief outline of the agricultural conditions and the value of the farm and farm machinery of the county.
| Number of farms | 4,734 |
| Acres of cultivated land in farms | 181,233 |
| Acres per farm | 38.3 |
| Value of farm land and buildings | $15,591,079.00 |
| Land alone | $11,111,473.00 |
| Buildings alone | $ 4,479,606.00 |
| Dwellings alone | $ 2,809,807.00 |
| Value of implements and machinery | $ 703,135.00 |
| Buildings per farm | $ 3,293.00 |
| Average value per acre | $ 86.03 |
The farms mentioned above are operated as follows:
980 operate by owners who live on their own farms.
4 operated by managers.
3,750 operated by tenants.
It is very interesting to know that over a period of ten years there has been an increase of 411 farms operated by tenants. This is an unfortunate situation for the farmers from an agricultural and social standpoint, as statistics prove that where a large number of farms are owned and operated by their owners living on the farms, the general agricultural and social conditions are greatly improved.
Soil:
The soils in Wilson County are mostly made up of the following types:
Norfolk sandy loam is the prevailing type carrying about eighty per cent of the tillable land.
Portsmouth soil is next which carries about fifteen per cent of the tillable land.
The other five per cent of the soil is made up of various types, none of which is of great importance in the county from an agricultural point of view.
Sedimentary clays suitable for brick making occur in considerable quantity on the east and northeast edge of Wilson. Two areas contain workable granites, twelve miles west of Wilson and three miles north of Elm City. Shell marl has been dug at numerous places along Toisnot and Hominy creeks, near Sharpsburg, and along White Oak Swamp. Analyses show from 38 to 72 per cent calcium carbonate.
As a whole the soils are considered very fertile from a crop standpoint with most of the soils producing about the average crops from this section of the state.
Crops:
The three major crops in Wilson County are tobacco, cotton and corn. For the past several years the consumption of the two cash
AGRICULTURAL SCENES OF WILSON COUNTY1. Cotton Field 2. Interior View Tobacco Warehouse 3. Corn Field 4. Tobacco Field 5. Dairy Barns 6. Hogs on Self Feeder 7. Dairy Cattle
crops mentioned has been considerably lower than the supply, therefore, it became necessary for the government to take some steps to control the production of these crops. A voluntary campaign for both of these crops was put into effect throughout the bright belt for tobacco and through the cotton states. The farmers of Wilson County were very loyal toward this program, signing up about 98 per cent of their tobacco acreage and about 98 per cent of their cotton acreage.
Under the Agricultural Adjustment Program, Wilson County was allotted a tobacco base of 29,330.7 acres. Taking out 30 per cent of this amount, the farmers will be allowed to plant 20,531.5 acres. They were allowed a base production of 22,444,595 pounds. With 30 per cent reduction they will be allowed to sell 15,711,216 pounds.
Of the total area of 238,728 acres in Wilson County, 138,572 or about 58 per cent of the land area, are classed as forest lands. Some 54 per cent of the forest area is farm woodland, including about 3,426 acres of woodland pasture. In 1925 there were only 5,839 acres in cultivated pasture land, while in 1934 this amount has increased to 10,966 acres. Of this forest area, the principal species are loblolly pine, 75 per cent; short-leaf pine, 20 per cent; and some oak and gum. The estimated total stand is about 30,000,000 board feet of saw timber accessible by road and rail according to most recent available estimates.
It is hoped that under the present change of the Agricultural Program the farmers of Wilson County will become more self-sustaining from a standpoint of feed and food supplies for their own farms by producing these supplies on the farm and by producing a better quality of products. This will mean an increase in prices, which will improve the social and economic conditions of the farmers.
Jesse S. Anderson
Thomas H. Woodard
Anderson, Deans & Woodard GENERAL INSURANCE [UNK] BONDS
Fidelity Building
Phone 652
Wilson Hardware Company
“Court House in Front of Us”
Wilson's Largest Hardware Store
Sporting Goods, Paints, Building Material, Household and General Hardware.
To Better Serve You
Watson Warehouses
No. 1
No. 2
Watson Warehouses
We wish to sincerely thank our friends and customers for their loyalty and good will during the past season, which enabled us to maintain our leadership of the Wilson Market, and we again offer you a quality of service in the sale of your tobacco that we believe cannot be found elsewhere.
SALES FORCE
Selby Anderson
Hob Anderson
A. B. Baines
Henry T. Carraway
Jesse B. Williams
W. C. Thompson
Robert Creech
Watson Warehouses
No. 1
No. 2
Leaders Since 1904
Wilson, N. C.
1893—1934
The Centre Brick Warehouse No. 1 and No. 2
The Centre Brick Warehouse
First Sale
Every Day
No. 1 and No. 2
First Sale
Every Day
Merits the Sale of Your 1934 Tobacco Crop
ADDITIONAL DOLLARS. The Centre Brick for the past ten years has led the Eastern Carolina average more than $2.00 per hundred pounds.
AS A RESULT The Centre Brick again sold more tobacco in 1932 than any warehouse firm in the bright belt. Leading The Wilson Market by Selling 35% of Its Total Sales.
REASONS FOR OUR HIGHER PRICES
1—Our unusual ability and experience gained during 40 years in selling farmers’ tobacco.
2—The best warehouse force in existence.
3—The equipment and floor space necessary to take care of more than 7,300 baskets of tobacco, over one million pounds daily.
4—A conscientious desire as warehousemen and farmers to get you those extra dollars.
Cozart-Eagles & Co.
Wilson, North Carolina
Petroleum DistributionWilson and Wilson County as well as the several adjoining counties receive their gasoline, motor oil and other petroleum products from distributing warehouses owned or operated by eight major Oil Companies. The companies operating in this vicinity are: Pure Oil Company of the Carolinas, Gulf Refining Company, Sinclair Refining Company, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Texas Oil Company, National Oil Company, Hackney Oil Company and the Shell Oil Company.
These eight Oil Companies operate large bulk plants and have in a large measure control of approximately 40 service stations in Wilson and 50 or 60 more in the surrounding territory. The Petroleum Industry gives employment to nearly 1,000 people in Wilson and within a radius of a few miles outside the city limits.
The Oil Companies of Wilson distribute every month to the consumers of the territory approximately 350,000 gallons of motor fuel and kerosene. Motor oil consumption will amount to nearly 8,000 gallons a month. Other products used in Wilson each month in large quantities are: soap, lubricants of all kinds, both automotive and industrial, fuel oil, tires, batteries and miscellaneous items like roofing material and solvent machine oil.
These eight Companies have invested in the vicinity of Wilson or caused to be invested nearly 2,000,000 dollars. They furnish petroleum and affiliated products to consumers amounting to over $1,000,000.
Central Service Station
Central Service Station
Cor. Barnes & Douglas Sts.
Phone 45
Dealers in Pure Oil Products HORACE THOMAS, Mgr.
Farmer's Cotton Oil Company
Farmer's Cotton Oil Company
Industries
The industrial development of Wilson dates back from the year 1854 at which time Hackney Brothers was organized and engaged in the manufacturing of buggies. From year to year there followed a rapid change in more modern inventions in vehicles for travel, automobiles having almost replaced the use of buggies. In keeping with this progressive development Hackney Brothers in 1919 discontinued the manufacturing of buggies, reorganized under the name of Hackney Bros. Body Company and since that time have been engaged in manufacturing the modern type of commercial bus bodies, their weekly output now being approximately 40 bodies, depending upon the size and type.
The Hackney Wagon Co. was organized in 1903 and is still in operation, making the most modern type of wagon, the output being approximately 50 per week.
Hackney Industries, Inc., was organized in April 1934. This factory manufactures steel commercial bus bodies. The weekly output is about 15, depending upon the size and type.
During the busy season these three factories employ a total of approximately 350 people with a weekly pay-roll of about $8,000.
Wilson has three up-to-date fertilizer plants, two of which operate cotton gins. The Contentnea Guano Co. was organized in 1907. It manufactures acid phosphate and a high grade line of fertilizer. The daily output is 800 tons.
The Farmers Cotton Oil Co. was organized in 1902. This company has several units for the manufacturing of various products. It manufactures a high grade line of fertilizer with a daily out-put of approximately 400 tons. A feed unit is operated with an out-put of 50 tons of manufactured feeds per day. A modern gin is also operated with daily ginning capacity of 75 bales. In the ginning of this cotton there is an extraction of about 60 tons of seed, which are put through a crushing process, producing cotton linters, cotton seed hulls, and cotton seed oil. This plant also operates a unit for manufacturing bale covering which is used for wrapping cotton.
The Southern Cotton Oil Co. was organized in 1900. It manufactures a high grade line of fertilizer with a daily capacity of 200 tons. It operates a cotton gin with a capacity of 100 bales per day which produce 80 tons of cotton seeds. These seeds are put through a crushing process, producing cotton linters, cotton seed hulls, and cotton seed oil.
During the busy season these three factories employ a total of approximately 200 people with a total weekly pay-roll of about $3,500.
Wilson has three modern ice factories: Colonial Ice Co., organized in 1904; Independent Electric Ice Co., organized in 1929; and the City's Ice & Fuel Co., organized January 1, 1934. These three plants manufacture a total of approximately 110 tons of ice per day and employ a total of approximately 50 people with a combined weekly payroll of about $900.
Southern Dairies Inc. was organized in 1900 and is engaged in the manufacturing of ice cream with a daily capacity of approximately 1500 gallons.
Wrights Ice Cream Co. was organized in 1931. It has a daily capacity of approximately 100 gallons.
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HACKNEY De Luxe School Bus Bodies are constructed with the same pains-taking care that has characterized other Hackney products for almost a century.
Careful consideration of expenditures was never more essential, not only in the business world but in public expenditures as well. Expensive experiments cannot be carried on with the taxpayer's money. PROVEN products only will be considered.
Hackney De Luxe School Bus Bodies will help you work out your Transportation problems. Choose a body you KNOW will give satisfactory performance along with safety and appearance.
HACKNEY BROTHERS BODY CO.
WILSON, N. C.
The Barnes-Harrell Company bottles approximately 3,000 cases of Coca-Cola per week.
The Acme Candy Co. manufactures approximately 3500 pounds of various kinds of candy per week.
The two ice cream plants, Candy plant and Bottling plant have a total of 61 employees with a weekly pay-roll of about $2,200.
Wilson has two lumber mills, one marble and granite factory and a mattress factory. The Williams Lumber Company operates lumber mills in Wilson and Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The Wilson plant cuts 40,000 feet of lumber per day. This lumber is cut into all sizes and types to be used for things of wooden construction. The plant is equipped to manufacture sash, doors, blinds, framing, etc.
The H. G. Stephenson Lumber Co. cuts 5,000 feet of lumber per day and purchases about an equal amount from other mills. The mill is equipped to make lumber into all sizes and shapes in addition to the making of sash, doors, frames, and blinds.
The Wilson Marble & Granite factory was established in 1908. Manufacturing of memorial monuments, markers and head-stones is carried out on an extensive scale.
The Wilson Bedding Company was established in 1922. This plant is equipped to manufacture between thirty and forty mattresses per day, the number depending upon the grade and type. The plant is equipped to renovate old mattresses.
The two lumber mills, the marble and granite factory and the bedding company employ a total of 110 people, and have a total weekly pay-roll of approximately $1,475.
A canning factory has just been established in Wilson by the Federal Government operating under the supervision of the FERA. Present plans call for the canning of beef cattle for about nine months during the year, with the other 3 months devoted to the canning of fruits and vegetables. This plant will employ approximately 400 people.
The Wilson Cotton Mills were organized in 1882. They are well equipped to manufacture the best quality of cotton yarn. When operating full time they use about 2,000 bales of cotton annually, which is all bought locally, and from this amount of cotton there is about 1,000,000 pounds of product in the form of cotton yarn manufactured. When operating full time they employ approximately 75 people.
The combined weekly pay-roll of the Canning Factory and Cotton Mill is approximately $3,900, the two plants employing a total of approximately 475 people.
Although not actually engaged in manufacturing, the tobacco redrying plants located in Wilson are an important factor in the industrial life of the community, particularly from the standpoint of the number of people they employ and their pay-rolls. The companies operating redrying plants in Wilson, North Carolina, include the following: Export Leaf Tobacco Co., R. P. Watson Tobacco Co., W. T. Clark & Co., Southern Tobacco Co., Imperial Tobacco Co., Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.,, E. J. O'Brien & Co., and the Wilson Tobacco Co. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and the American Supplies Inc., maintain branch offices and green packing plants. Whitehead & Anderson and James I. Miller Tobacco companies are tobacco brokers and maintain headquarters in Wilson from which they supervise the purchasing of tobacco in the various belts. During the busy season these factories employ a total of approximately 2800 people, their total weekly payroll being about $35,000.
During the tobacco season, which involves a period of about 4 to 5 months, there are ten large auction tobacco warehouses operating which employ about 2500 people with a total weekly pay-roll of approximately $20,000. These warehouses include the following: Farmers Warehouse, Centre Brick 1 and 2, New Planters Warehouse, Watson Warehouse 1 and 2, Smith Warehouse A and B, Carolina Warehouse, and the Banner Warehouse.
Two of the nation's largest meat packers maintain branches in Wilson, namely, Armour & Co. and Wilson & Co. These two plants handle a complete line of packing house products and manufacture fresh and smoked sausages. They employ a total of approximately 80 people with a combined weekly pay-roll of about $1600.
There are several other types of business represented in Wilson which handle and distribute various commodities on a large scale. The number of people these businesses employ and their pay-rolls are an important factor, yet they are not actually engaged in manufacturing, which would likely eliminate them from an industrial classification.
The total weekly pay-rolls of all businesses above mentioned amount to approximately $75,675 while the number of people employed is 7,000.
With the more recent trend toward decentralization of industries, Wilson County is in an ideal situation to attract additional manufacturing development, especially small manufacturing enterprises. The climate is wholesome, there is an ample supply of capable and intelligent labor and excellent power and transportation facilities. The possibilities for industrial development, from the standpoint of available natural resources, are most promising.
Wilson Iron Works
Wilson Iron Works
MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS SOLD & REPAIRED
“Builders of Friendship and Bigger Business”
208 Lodge St.
Phone 981
Southern Cotton Oil Company
Southern Cotton Oil Company
Manufacturers
COTTON SEED PRODUCTS
HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS MODERN COTTON GINNERY
The Southern Cotton Oil Co.
Wilson, North Carolina
Cotton MarketWilson is known throughout Eastern North Carolina as one of the largest and best cotton markets in the state. Cotton grown in all of the adjoining counties is brought to the local market for sale, and brings the highest possible prices.
Wilson County is served by 24 active gins. During the 1933-34 season it ginned approximately 12,000 bales. The local market sold about 10,000 bales.
The following wholesale buyers are represented on the local market: Alexander Sprunt & Son, Z. V. Eure & Co., J. H. McFadden & Co.; Rogers & Co., and the W. T. Lamm Cotton Co. Besides the wholesale buyers the following merchants buy cotton direct from the farmers: P. L. Woodard & Co., General Supply Co. and B. A. Barnes Co. They sell to one of the above wholesale firms or direct to the mills.
Wilson has two modern storage warehouses: The North State Bonded Warehouse, and the Wilson Cotton Warehouse Co. Both of these warehouses are bonded under the Federal and State Warehouse system and are checked periodically by Federal Inspectors to see that all cotton is accounted for, properly tagged, protected from the weather and insured for the full market value.
P. L. WOODARD & CO. GROCERIES [UNK] HARDWARE
FARMING IMPLEMENTS
General Agents
CONTENTNEA GUANO CO.
Daily Freight Service Between Richmond, Va. and Eastern North Carolina Points
Thurston Motor Lines FAST [UNK] SAFE [UNK] RELIABLE
HOME OFFICE
208 N. Railroad St.
WILSON, N. C.
Phone 84
Contentnea Guano Co.
Contentnea Guano Co.
Manufacturers of SUPERPHOSPHATE AND QUALITY FERTILIZERS Over a Quarter Century
Abstract illustration of Wilson as a hub of railroad transportation
The above map is designed to prove the central position that Wilson occupies as the hub of Eastern North Carolina. The lines indicate the distances and location of a number of leading towns surrounding Wilson. Hard surfaced roads lead from Wilson to all towns shown on the map.
Trade AreaWilson's retail area covers a radius of from twenty to thirty miles including all of Wilson County and parts of adjoining counties. Due to the extensive wholesale business carried on in Wilson the wholesale trade area would cover approximately fifty miles, although there are some classes of wholesale businesses located here, which do business over the entire state.
According to the United States Bureau of Census, the retail stores in Wilson County in 1933 did a retail business amounting to $5,695,000. The 1933 report also shows 396 stores in Wilson County having a total of approximately 900 employees.
Financial Institutions
The well-being and progress of a community depend upon its financial institutions. Wilson, North Carolina, points with pride to the following banks and building and loan associations which have contributed so much to its betterment, advancement and financial security. Condensed statements of these institutions are as follows:
BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANYHome Office
WILSON, N. C.
BRANCHES AT GOLDSBORO, PLYMOUTH, SELMA, FAYETTEVILLE, WILLIAMSTON, KINSTON, ELM CITY, WARSAW, all located in eastern North Carolina.
RESOURCES
| Loans and Discounts | $ 2,249,000.00 |
| Stocks and Bonds | 8,084,000.00 |
| Cash and due from Banks | 2,240,000.00 |
| Other Resources | 463,000.00 |
| $13,036,000.00 |
LIABILITIES
| Capital—Preferred | $ 400,000.00 |
| Capital—Common | 400,000.00 |
| Surplus | 200,000.00 |
| Undivided Profits and Reserves | 410,000.00 |
| Deposits | 11,626,000.00 |
| $13,036,000.00 |
Organized July 15, 1932
RESOURCES
| Loans and Discounts | $ 492,000.00 |
| Stocks and Bonds | 540,000.00 |
| Cash and Due from Banks | 750,000.00 |
| Other Resources | 2,000.00 |
| 1,784,000.00 |
LIABILITIES
| Capital | $ 100,000.00 |
| Surplus | 50,000.00 |
| Surplus | 50,000.00 |
| Undivided Profits and Reserves | 61,000.00 |
| Deposits | 1,573,000.00 |
| 1,784,000.00 |
Sell Tobacco Here!
Banner Warehouse
IF THERE IS ANY PLACE BETTER NOBODY HAS FOUND IT
CRUTE & FLEMING
Banner Warehouse
Wilson, N. C.
YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED
WILSON HOME AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
Organized 1889
RESOURCES
| Mortgage loans | $330,000.00 |
| Stock loans | 7,000.00 |
| Other Resources | 68,000.00 |
| 405,000.00 |
LIABILITIES
| Installment Stock outstanding | $117,000.00 |
| Full Paid Stock | 133,000.00 |
| Profits and Reserves | 37,000.00 |
| Bills Payable | 58,000.00 |
| 405,000.00 |
Organized 1907
RESOURCES
| Mortgage loans | $240,000.00 |
| Stock loans | 11,000.00 |
| Other Resources | 54,000.00 |
| 305,000.00 |
LIABILITIES
| Installment stock outstanding | $148,000.00 |
| Full paid stock | 64,000.00 |
| Profits and Reserves | 39,000.00 |
| Bills Payable | 54,000.00 |
| 305,000.00 |
Organized 1925
RESOURCES
| Mortgage loans | $51,000.00 |
| Stock loans | 1,000.00 |
| Other resources | 1,000.00 |
| 53,000.00 |
LIABILITIES
| Installment stock outstanding | 23,000.00 |
| Full paid stock | 25,000.00 |
| Profits and reserves | 5,000.00 |
| 53,000.00 |
A branch of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia, South Carolina, is located in Wilson. The work carried on by this office is the appraising of farm land for long time farm loans.
The territory served by this office includes 50 counties of Eastern North Carolina.
At the present time employes of this office number approximately 55.
Publishers and PrintersWilson has one newspaper publisher and four printing establishments, as follows:
The P. D. Gold Publishing Company established in 1867. It now has three publications: Zion's Landmark, a semi-monthly Primitive Baptist paper; The Wilson Times, a semi-weekly, published each Tuesday and Friday; The Daily Times, a daily paper except Sunday.
Barrett's Printing House established in 1896.
Stallings’ Printing House established in 1910.
Sansbury Printers established 1923.
All of these four printing establishments are equipped with the most modern machinery which enables them to handle all types of job printing.
Hotels, Apartments and Tourist HomesWilson has two first-class hotels. The Hotel Cherry has 200 rooms and the Briggs Hotel 100 rooms. The majority of the rooms are equipped with bath. Both hotels have modern dining rooms and serve excellent food.
There are three other hotels of about third to fourth class of which the total rooming capacity is approximately 100.
There are several modern tourist homes, rooming houses, boarding houses and eight apartment houses in Wilson.
Carolina Laundry
Launderers and Dry Cleaners since 1900
Most modern equipment
Experienced employees
WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS
CAROLINA LAUNDRY
Phones 369-370
233-5-7 S. Tarboro St.
Williams Lumber Company
Williams Lumber Company
“We Sell Everything To Build Anything”
Wilson
Lumber and Building Material
Rocky Mount
APARTMENT HOUSES OF WILSON
1. Anderson Flats 2. Varita Court Apartments 3. Oettinger Apartments 4. Colonial Apartments
Photograph of Tudor's Florist greenhouses nursery
Tudor's Florist
RETAIL AND WHOLESALE
FLORIST
Growers of Fine Flowers and Plants for the Wholesale and Retail Trade.
Decorations and Floral Designs for Every Occasion.
U. S. 301
WILSON, N. C.
PENNEY'SThe J. C. Penney Company
1934 marks the Tenth anniversary of the Wilson store, and the J. C. Penney Company has just completed extensive alterations for a new and larger store, doubling its floor space to better accommodate an increasing volume of business.
PENNEY'S
SOME REPRESENTATIVE WILSON HOMES
1. Dr. H. B. Best Residence 2. A. A. Ruffin Residence 3. J. T. Barnes Residence 4. J. C. Eagles Residence
Carolina Warehouse
CAROLINA WAREHOUSE
W. BOYD CLARK & J. J. GIBBONS, Props.
We solicit your patronage and promise you courteous, efficient service and our best efforts in the sale of your tobacco.
BOYD CLARK
Sales Manager
J. J. GIBBONS
Auctioneer
Railroad TransportationWilson, North Carolina, is perhaps served in a more adequate way, in so far as rail transportation is concerned, than any other town in the Eastern part of North Carolina. It is the only town served by the main line of two trunk line railroads. The main lines of the Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern both serve Wilson.
Locating the town geographically by its railroads, it is 482 miles south of New York and 540 miles north of Jacksonville, or practically half way between the congested areas of the “Atlantic Seaboard” and “The Winter Playground of the Nation.” It is 143 miles from the Port of Norfolk, 109 miles from the Port of Wilmington, and 120 miles from the Port of Morehead City.
Measuring the distance by hours rather than miles, the Norfolk Southern and the Atlantic Coast Line deliver carload shipments from California in nine days. Kansas shipping points are only five days distant; Chicago, Illinois, is four days out; New York, thirty-six hours; Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, twenty-four hours; Memphis, Tenn., three days; Atlanta, Ga., two days; Jacksonville, Fla., two days and from the ports in North Carolina and Virginia, twelve hours. In other words, Wilson is so located, in so far as railroad transportation is concerned, that a merchant or manufacturer has quick transportation North, East, South and West, and this transportation is so dependable that inventories can be reduced to a minimum, or rather orders can be shipped at the last moment with definite assurance that they will reach their destination in time.
The Atlantic Coast Line and the Norfolk Southern operate daily package cars from many of the large industrial centers, maintaining a schedule in most instances that equals passenger schedules. By reason of the location of Wilson on the main line of the two railroads serving it, about fifty freight and passenger trains enter the town daily.
The freight and passenger rates compare most favorably with those of any other in the South. The schedules are excellent.
M. G. ROSE & SONSMerchandise Brokers
Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay, Salt
217-218 National Bank Bldg.
Office Phone 352
Residence Phone 732-W.
Williams Auto Co.For Economical Transportation
East Green St.
Phone 888
Chevrolet
Wilson, N. C.
The Dixie Inn
THE DIXIE INN
“WHERE FRIENDS MEET AND EAT” Located Four Miles South of Wilson, N. C., Intersection U. S. 301 & 17
Every City Has Its
Leading Store
In Wilson It Is—
Gettinger's The Dependable Store Wilson, N.C.
Map showing the Washington-Florida short route before the Interstate highway system
This map shows the Washington-Florida short route. It is the shortest, fastest and most desirable route North and South between New York and Florida. No toll bridges. Follow U. S. No. 1 from New York via Baltimore to Petersburg, Va., and from there follow U. S. No. 301 to Summerton, S. C., and from there follow U. S. No. 401 to Waterboro and from there follow U. S. No. 17 to Jacksonville, Fla. The distance from Baltimore, Md., to Jacksonville, Florida, is 808 miles. There are excellent hotels and tourist homes along this entire route.
When passing through Wilson, N. C., stop at the Chamber of Commerce office for maps and complete road information.
Texaco
FRANK'S
Intersection 42 & U. S. 301
Holt Oil Co.
Agents
WILSON, N. C.
PAT'S
Opposite Hotel Cherry
Buy At This Sign
Texaco
“Have No Regret”
Five Points, on U. S. 301
Texaco
WILLIARD'S
U. S. Highway No. 301 Tobacco Warehouse District
Holt Oil Co.
Agents
WILSON, N. C.
Wilson County Road SystemThe town of Wilson is located in the central part of Wilson County and is served by a system of good roads unsurpassed by any county in the State of North Carolina. It has A No. 1 hard surfaced roads leading North, South, East and West. In fact, every through highway coming into or leading from Wilson is hard surfaced. From a distribution standpoint, Wilson has unexcelled facilities, as can be verified by the State Highway map. Wilson County now has approximately 100 miles of paved highways in addition to several hundred miles of good dirt roads, passable the year around.
W. M. Rogers & Company
“Let's Do Business Together”
W. M. Rogers & Company
BROKERS & DISTRIBUTORS QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTS
General Offices, Rogers Terminal Bldg., Wilson, N. C.
Lovelace-Green Motor Co.
WILSON, N. C.
TERRAPLANE and HUDSON
Motor Cars
The Home of Good Used Cars
Motor Truck and Bus Service
There are five automobile truck lines operating in and out of Wilson. Thurston Motor Lines, with headquarters at Wilson, N. C., operate daily truck line service from Goldsboro via Wilson, N. C., and Richmond, Va., making connections with all Northern and Southern points.
Stallings Truck Lines, with headquarters at Spring Hope, N. C., operate daily truck line service from Wilson, N. C., to Raleigh, N. C., making connection with all points East and West.
The Norfolk-Carolina truck lines, with headquarters at Norfolk, Va., operate daily truck line service from Wilson, N. C., to Norfolk, Va.
Forbes Transfer Company and Hollingsworth Motor Freight Company, both having headquarters here, do general local For Hire delivery service, in addition to the hauling by motor trucks of all kinds of freight to any and all points.
There are three bus lines operating in and out of Wilson.
The Seashore Transportation Company, with headquarters at New Bern, N. C., operates a daily schedule from Rocky Mount, N. C., via Wilson, N. C., to Goldsboro, N. C., Morehead City, N. C., and Beaufort, N. C.
The Carolina Coach Line, with headquarters at Raleigh, N. C., operates a daily schedule from Raleigh, N. C., via Wilson, N. C., to Washington, N. C.
Sutherland Bros., with headquarters at Washington, N. C., operate a daily round trip schedule between Washington, N. C., and Raleigh, N. C.
Corbett Motor Co.
Buick-Pontiac Sales and Service
Good Used Cars
213 S. Goldsboro St.
Telephone 96
Wilson Auto Sales
DEALER FOR
STUDEBAKER, PLYMOUTH and DE SOTO Cars
110 N. Douglas St.
Phone 248
WILLIS N. HACKNEY
W. D. HACKNEY, Jr.
HACKNEY
Tire Company Wholesale OPERATORS Retail
The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company Warehouse
GOODRICH, SILVERTOWN, GOLDEN PLY,
TIRES & TUBES
Goodrich Cavalier Cases
Goodrich Commander Cases
Batteries and Accessories
PHONE 402
New Planters Warehouse
New Planters Warehouse
Wilson, N. C.
“SERVICE YOU CAN DEPEND ON”
Owners and Proprietors
R. T. SMITH
B. W. CARR
W. G. CARR, Jr.
1. Fair Grounds Grand Stand
2. Confederate Monument
3. Nash Street, Looking West from Douglas
4. Wilson Fire Station
5. Woman's Club
Miscellaneous Statistics
Climate: The annual averages for Wilson and Wilson County are as follows:
| Rainfall | 4.6 inches |
| Temperature | 60.8 degrees |
The receipts of the Post Office at Wilson, North Carolina, for the fiscal year June 30, 1933 to June 30, 1934 were $50,734.53.
FAIR GROUNDS(Owned and operated by American Legion of Wilson)
Grounds cover 36 acres.
Grand Stand has seating capacity of 3,000.
Race track ½ mile, dirt.
Buildings on grounds include poultry, live stock, swine and stables.
Ten refreshment stands.
Fair dates for 1934, October 22-27.
GRAIN EXCHANGEJohn F. Clark & Co., of New York, N. Y., maintain a grain exchange in Wilson, North Carolina, which is located in the National Bank Building, mezzanine floor offices numbers 1, 2 and 3.
This office receives continuous daily market quotations on grain, stocks, bonds, cotton, tobacco, sugar, provisions, coffee, raw rubber, silk, silver, lead, zinc, tin, cotton seed oil, hides, wool and a few other commodities, and has private wires throughout the entire South.
John F. Clark & Co. are members of all principal exchanges.
Amerson-Boswell Company
A. E. BISHOP
J. C. JOYNER
F. W. BOSWELL
AMERSON-BOSWELL COMPANY
107 N. Pine Street
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
AMBULANCE SERVICE
WILSON, N. C.
Office Day or Night Phone 210
Residence Phones 571—1371
Carroll's Inc.
(Food Specialists)
LEADING GROCERS FOR 29 YEARS
PHONES 62 & 63
109 WEST NASH ST.
CARROLL'S, Inc.
Colonial Ice CompanyICE Health Guard U.S. Pat. Off
ICE Keeps FOOD With Original Flavors.
An Odorless, Troubleless Refrigeration.
COAL
BLUE GEM, SPLINT, and POCAHONTAS.
Phones 202—41
Civic, Fraternal, Business, Educational, and
Social Organizations of Wilson
CIVIC
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
Lions Club
Woman's Club
Business and Professional Women's Club
Wilson Garden Club
Wilson Chapter American Red Cross
Wilson Tubercular Association
Chamber of Commerce
Wilson Merchants Association
FRATERNALMount Lebanon Lodge No. 117, A. F. and A. M.
Mount Lebanon Chapter, No. 27, R. A. M.
Mount Lebanon Council, No. 13, R. and S. M.
Mount Lebanon Commandery No. 7, K. T.
St. John's of Jerusalem Council No. 7, A. M. D.
Wilson Chapter No. 145, O.E.S.
Enterprise Lodge No. 44, I.O.O.F.
Wilson Encampment No. 40, I.O.O.F.
Roselle Rebekah Lodge No. 109, I.O.O.F.
Post T., Travelers Protective Association
Gold Leaf Council No. 672, United Commercial Travelers.
Wilson Council No. 40, J.O.U.A.M.
Wilson Lodge No. 989, Loyal Order of Moose.
Wilson Camp No 13499, Modern Woodmen of America.
PATRIOTICDaughters American Revolution
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Wilson County Post No. 2058 V.F.W.
Robert B. Anderson Post, No. 13, American Legion
Voiture No. 930, Forty and Eight
Wilson American Legion Auxiliary
Wilson Chapter War Mothers
Wilson Squadron Sons of the Legion
BUSINESSWilson Board of Trade
Wilson Tobacco Warehousemen's Association
PROFESSIONALWilson County Medical Society
Wilson County Bar Association
Ministers Union
Wilson Utilities Club
EDUCATIONALWinstead Parent Teachers Association
Woodard Parent Teachers Association
Current History Club
SOME REPRESENTATIVE WILSON HOMES
1. W. W. Graves Residence 2. W. T. Lamm Residence 3. Fred Flowers Residence
Margaret Hearne Parent Teachers Association
East Carolina Council Boy Scouts of America
Wilson Book Club
SOCIALWilson Country Club
Wilson Shrine Club
Volunteer Firemen's Club
Gold Leaf Cotillion Club
NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS
FRATERNALHannibal Lodge 1552
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
Mount Hebron Lodge of Masons.
R. E. Quinn & Co.
R. E. QUINN
T. H. THURSTON
H. V. WOODALL
R. E. QUINN & CO.
Furniture
Stoves, Radios and Electric Refrigerators See us before buying—We satisfy.
Phone 1026
201 S. Goldsboro St.
A Cordial Invitation Is Extended To You To Visit
Lucielle's Dress Shop "Where Smartness Prevails"
205 E. Nash St.
Phone 730
Wilson, N. C.
EFIRD'S
Efird's Department Store
THE BIG, BUSY STORE IN WILSON
Telephone and Telegraph Facilities
The telephone exchange of Wilson is owned and operated by the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company. It is of the most modern type having an extensive underground system. The total investment of the plant has a value of approximately $230,198 and a total of 44 long distance circuits terminating in, and many through circuits passing through the Wilson exchange.
There are 2250 subscribers. All Wilson subscribers can be connected to 97 percent of all telephones in the world. Additional foreign countries are being added rapidly. There are 28 people empassing through, the Wilson exchange.
There were in 1933 4,099,584 local exchange connections handled and 96,285 long distance calls originated in the Wilson exchange.
Wilson is served by both the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Postal Telegraph Company, the equipment of both companies being modern in every respect. The Western Union is equipped for both morse and simplex printer operation and the Postal for morse operation. Both companies have ample messenger call box facilities, with circuits covering the entire town. Without any additional equipment either company could handle at least twice the present volume of business.
Boykin Grocery Co., Inc.
1885
1934
Boykin Grocery Co., Inc.
“Wholesale Grocers”
Wilson
N. C.
Southern Grain and Provision Co.
Southern Grain and Provision Co.
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
407-411-415 E. Barnes St.
Phones 1366-1367
INDEPENDENT
Ice and Coal Co.
PUREST ICE and SUREST SERVICE
QUALITY COAL
600 Herring Ave.
Phones 682 and 310
Pender's
The New PENDER STORE in Wilson
Interests in the future of Wilson—In the health of its citizens and in performing our duty as purveyors of quality foods—economically.
PENDER'S
Business and Professional Summary of Wilson| Agricultural Implement and Machine Dealers | 4 | Fertilizer Manufacturers | 3 |
| Finance Company | 1 | ||
| Auto Body Manufacturers | 2 | Fish Markets, Retail | 4 |
| Auto Accessories and Parts | 8 | Fruit and Produce | 6 |
| Auto Dealers | 7 | Furniture Dealers | 5 |
| Ambulance Service | 3 | Florists | 3 |
| Architects | 2 | Funeral Homes | 3 |
| Attorneys | 41 | Furniture Repair Shops | 3 |
| Auto Tire Dealers | 4 | ||
| Gift Shops | 2 | ||
| Bakeries | 2 | General Supplies Stores | 2 |
| Banks | 2 | Garages, Auto | 9 |
| Brokers, Merchandise and Food | 4 | Grain Exchange | 1 |
| Hotels | 3 | ||
| Bicycle Shops | 2 | Hospitals | 3 |
| Blacksmiths and Horse Shoe Shops | 2 | Ice Cream Manufacturers | 2 |
| Beauty Parlors | 4 | Ice Manufacturers | 3 |
| Beer Distributor | 1 | Insurance Agencies | 25 |
| Bonded Warehouse | 1 | Iron Works | 1 |
| Bottler | 1 | ||
| Building and Loan Associations | 3 | Jewelry Stores | 4 |
| Bus Lines | 3 | Junk Yard | 1 |
| Building Material Dealers | 7 | ||
| Barber Shops | 12 | Laundries | 3 |
| Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear and Millinery | 15 | ||
| Candy Manufacturer | 1 | ||
| Cafes | 16 | Live Stock Dealers | 2 |
| Cannery | 1 | Lumber Mills | 2 |
| Chiropractors | 2 | ||
| Coal and Wood Dealers | 7 | Men's Furnishings | 2 |
| Cleaners and Pressers | 7 | Monument Manufacturer | 1 |
| Children's Ready-to-Wear | 1 | Meat Markets, Retail | 3 |
| Cotton Brokers | 2 | Meat Packing Companies | 2 |
| Ministers | 12 | ||
| Clinic | 1 | ||
| Contractors | 2 | News and Soda Shops | 7 |
| Cotton Gins | 3 | ||
| Cotton Mills | 1 | Osteopaths | 1 |
| Plumbing Shops | 3 | ||
| Department Stores | 6 | Photographer | 1 |
| Dentists | 7 | Physicians | 25 |
| Drug Stores | 10 | Piano Store | 1 |
| Publisher | 1 | ||
| Exclusive Tobacco Brokers | 2 | Printing Shops | 4 |
Brown & Crawley
BROWN & CRAWLEY
Wholesale Meats and Provisions—Abattoir In Conection
We Solicit Inquiries From Live Stock Dealers.
BUYERS OF LIVE STOCK IN CAR LOAD LOTS.
T. E. BROWN
R. J. CRAWLEY
BARNES
Motor and Parts Company
COMPLETE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE
Wrecker Service Day and Night
315 East Barnes St., One and one-half block off U. S. 301
Phone No. 435
Wilson, N. C.
Best Equipped Automotive Service In N. C.
| Retail Hardware | 4 | Tailors | 3 |
| Real Estate Agents | 6 | Telegraph Companies | 2 |
| Railroads | 2 | Telephone Exchange | 1 |
| Recreation Parlors | 5 | Theatres | 4 |
| Retail Grocery Stores | 35 | Truck Lines | 3 |
| Railroad Offices | 3 | Tobacco Redrying Plants | 9 |
| Rugs, Cleaning | 1 | Tobacco Warehouses | 10 |
| Transfer Companies | 2 | ||
| Stationer, Retail | 1 | Typewriter Agent | 1 |
| Shoe Stores | 2 | ||
| Slaughtering Plant | 1 | Variety Stores | 3 |
| Service Stations | 50 | ||
| Sewing Machine Dealer | 1 | Wagon Manufacturer | 1 |
| Seed and Feed Dealer | 1 | Wholesale Gas and Oil | 8 |
| Shoe Shops | 3 | Wholesale Grocers | 6 |
AIR VIEW OF TOBACCO WAREHOUSE DISTRICT
Graham Woodard, President
Geo. T. Stronach, Sec'y-Treas.
—Quarter of a Century of Service—
1907-1934
Wilson Insurance and Realty Company
119 South Goldsboro Street
Wilson N. C.
AIR VIEW BUSINESS DISTRICT, LOOKING WEST ON NASH STREET
Wilson has a very active Chamber of Commerce. Its office is in the lobby of the Hotel Cherry.
The office library includes directories of approximately 200 towns and cities of the United States in addition to road maps of each state. Up-to-date records are kept which make it possible for the office to be recognizd as a bureau of information.
A cordial invitation is extended to local and out-of-town people to visit the office for such information as may be desired, which will be gladly given free.
Frank M. Miller
GENERAL INSURANCE & REALTOR
City and Farm Property
Offices: Wilson, N. C., and Goldsboro, N. C.
Engravings in this book made by - Metropolitan Engraving & Electrotype Co. Designers Photo-Engravers Electrotypers 1314 Ross St. Richmond, Va.
Hotel Cherry
Photo collage - Exterior and interior view
Hotel Cherry
W. E. BARNES, Manager
200 Modern Fire Proof Rooms
Dining Room In Connection
Excellent Food [UNK] Reasonably Priced
Free Parking
Table of Contents
| Page | Page | ||
| Agriculture | 36-38 | Photographs: (continued) | |
| Boy Scouting | 20 | Country Club, Nash Street | 27 |
| Chamber of Commerce | 82 | Parks, Playgrounds and Resorts | 29 |
| Churches | 20 | Five Redrying Tobacco Plants | 31 |
| College, Atlantic Christian | 18 | Four Tobacco Redrying Plants and One Interior View | 34 |
| Cotton Market | 49 | ||
| Country Club | 26 | Six Agricultural Views | 37 |
| Financial Institutions | 52-54 | Air View Tobacco Warehouse District | 81 |
| Health Department | 12 | ||
| History of Wilson and Wilson Co. | 3-4 | Four Apartment Houses—Varita Court, Oettingers, Colonial and Anderson | 57 |
| Hospital and Clinical Facilities | 14 | ||
| Hotels and Apartment Houses | 55 | ||
| Industries | 44-46-47 | Four Attractive Wilson Residences | 59 |
| Library | 18 | Fair Grounds, Nash Street Business Section, Fire Department, Woman's Club, Confederate Monument | 69 |
| Location | 51 | ||
| Map: City of Wilson | 11 | ||
| Map: (Showing Wilson as hub of Eastern North Carolina) | 51 | Three Attractive Wilson Homes | 73 |
| Map: North-South Short Route | 63 | Air View Wilson's Business District | 82 |
| Miscellaneous Statistics | 70 | ||
| Motor Truck and Bus Service | 66 | Population | 10 |
| Nash Street The Beautiful | 26-28 | Portrait: Hon. Louis D. Wilson | 2 |
| Organizations: Civic, Fraternal, Business Educational and Social | 72-74 | Power, Lights and Water | 6-8-10 |
| Publishers and Printers | 55 | ||
| Parks, Playgrounds and Resorts | 28 | Railroad Transportation | 61 |
| Petroleum Distribution | 41 | Road System | 65 |
| Photographs: | Schools, Wilson and Wilson County | 16 | |
| Court House, High School | 5 | Summary Wilson's Business Enterprises | 79-81 |
| Municipal Plants | 7 | Telephone and Telegraph Facilities | 76 |
| Municipal Plants | 9 | Tobacco Market | 30-32-33 |
| Hospitals and Clinics of Wilson | 15 | Town of Wilson—Its Form of Government | 6 |
| School Buildings of Wilson | 17 | ||
| Churches of Wilson | 21 | Trade Area | 51 |
| Camp Charles (Boy Scout Camp) | 22 | Welfare Work of Wilson | 12 |
National Bank of Wilson
Capable and Courteous Service
To This Community
National Bank of Wilson
(Member Federal Reserve System)
I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION RE: THE CLOSING OF THE THE WILSON COTTON MILL. THE PICTURE I FOUND WAS TAKEN FROM THE RAILROAD SIDE. THE FRONT FACED ON FACTORY STREET. THE MILL VILLAGE WAS ON THE FACTORY STREE SIDE. IS ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE ABOUT THE CLOSING OF THE MILL. MY GREAT UNCLE WAS FOREMAN. I THINK IT CLOSED IN 1944 OR 45. THIS IS A GOOD BRIEF HISTORY OF WILSON. I LIVED ACROSS FROM THE COTTON MILL THE EARLY YEARS OF MY LIFE AND REMEMBER IT WELL--ESPECIALLY WHEN THE WHISTLE DID NOT BLOW ANYMORE.