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1945 EDITION

Facts About Columbus County

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THE COLUMBUS COUNTY NEWS

Map of Columbus County showing
original area and later annexations.
Shaded area represents county as originally
formed, and lighter areas are
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Columbus County, named for the discoverer of America, was formed from Bladen and Brunswick in 1808. The courthouse was erected the following year in Whiteville, which was chosen as the county seat. The Revolutionary and Colonial history of the county is connected with that of Bladen and Brunswick counties.

The act providing for the creation of Columbus county stipulated “that all that part of Bladen and Brunswick, beginning in the Waccamaw river, where the dividing line between North and South Carolina crosses the same, then up said river to the White Marsh Branch, then up the same to the Western Prong and to the head of it, then a direct line to the Rough Horn Branch or Swamp; then down Rough Horn to Drowning Creek (Lumber River) thence down the same to the State line, thence with the same to the beginning—shall be and is hereby established into a separate and distinct county, by the name of Columbus”.

Later, in 1810, another part of Bladen was annexed to Columbus: “ . . . the boundary-line between the Counties of Bladen and Columbus, shall begin in the Brunswick line, two miles to the east of the Waggamaw Lake, and run thence a direct line to Slade Swamp, so as to include Henry Swindle's plantation, thence down Slade Swamp to the Brown Marsh Swamp, thence down the same to the Western Prong, thence up the same to the mouth of Green's Mill Branch, then up the said Branch to the head, and then a direct line to the mouth of the Horse-pen Branch at the Big Swamp, thence down the Big Swamp and Drowning Creek to the Columbus line. And the boundary herein mentioned and described, shall be the dividing line between the said counties of Bladen and Columbus.”

A dividing line between Brunswick and Columbus was authorized to be established in 1810: “ . . . That Waccamaw River, from the South Carolina line to the Stake, shall be considered as the true and established boundary between the said counties; and that the county courts of Columbus and Brunswick shall, together or separately, have the power and authority to order the said river, from bank to bank, cleared out and to enforce the working thereupon on the inhabitants of their own counties respectively, whenever they, or either of them, think proper.”

In 1811, the act of 1809 which added part of Bladen to

Columbus, was amended by adding new commissioners to extend and mark the dividing line between the said counties. No description is given in the law.

Again in 1811, still another part of Brunswick was annexed to Columbus as follows: “All that part of Brunswick county bounded as follows to-wit — Beginning at Waccamaw river, at the mouth of Juniper Creek, on the Columbus line and running up Juniper Creek to a swamp called Big Swamp, and the Big Swamp to a branch called Clear Branch and up the Clear Branch to the head, then a direct course to the Waccamaw river, at the mouth of a large creek, thence to join the Columbus line or River to the beginning —- be, and the same is hereby annexed to the county of Columbus”.

In 1820, the boundary-line between Bladen and Columbus was authorized to be extended and marked as before directed by law. No description is given in the law.

A year later, or in 1821, another portion of Bladen county was annexed to Columbus, the act providing “ . . that all that part of the county of Bladen which lies south west of the line hereafter to be run, beginning on the Brunswick line where the Lake Road leading to Wilmington crosses, thence on the north side of said road to the drain of Buckhead Bay, thence a direct line to where the road leading from Manly Westbrook's to Gabriel Holmes’ crosses Saspan drain, thence a direct line to where the line that divides Bladen and Columbus Counties is supposed to run, thence along said line to Samuel Swindol's plantation, and thence on the southwest side of said plantation to the mouth of Slade Swamp — - be and the same is hereby annext to and shall hereafter form a part of Columbus County; and all that part of the county lying north east of the said line shall form a part of Bladen.”

In 1827 the boundary line between Bladen and Columbus was again authorized to be run and marked, and in 1832, the act concerning the Bladen and Columbus boundary line was repealed.

Even as late of 1877, more of Brunswick county was being annexed to Columbus: the act described the territory annexed as follows: “Commencing at the point where the counties of Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus now join, running thence with said Bladen Line to northwest Cape Fear River; thence down the said river to the point where Hood's Creek empties in the same; thence with the run of said creek to its source in Little Green Swamp, thence a direct line to the source of Clear Branch and to the present Brunswick and Columbus line; thence with the line of said counties to the beginning; and all that portion of Brunswick county, embraced within the boundary above described, shall be and is hereby transferred to, and constitutes a part of the county of Columbus’.

The eastern boundary line between the counties of Brunswick

and Columbus was authorized to be established in 1879: “Beginning at a point on Cape Fear River immediately below Fowl Food plantation, the property of John M. Sikes, from thence an air-line to the head of Livingston Creek; from thence a due south course to Clear Branch, in Green Swamp; from thence with old line as now established.”

The dividing line between Bladen and Columbus was authorized to be changed in 1883: “That the dividing line between the counties of Bladen and Columbus be and the same is hereby changed as follows to-wit: beginning at a point where the county line comes to the Whiteville and Wilmington Road, thence with the south edge of said road for a distance of two and one-half miles, thence across said road to its north edge, thence with Bladen county line as it now stands.”

An act was passed in 1915 which provided for locating and defining the boundary line between Columbus and Brunswick, as confusion had arisen because the line was inadequately established and marked, especially through Green Swamp.

In 1808, Thomas Frink and James Stevens were appointed by the General Assembly of North Carolina, in the act creating Columbus county, “to fix a site for a courthouse and jail,” and it was suggested that until the courthouse was ready for use, that courts should be held in the home of Steven Barfield.

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What is now the county seat of Columbus county was originally Whites’ Crossing. In 1810, however Whitesville was laid out on James B. White's land, and public buildings were ordered erected there. Later, the county seat became known as Whiteville.

Of the Colonial and Revolutionary history of Columbus county, not a great deal is known.

During the War of the Revolution, what is now Columbus county was the scene of two skirmishes between the patriots and British soldiers — - one at what is now Pireway, and one in the Welches Creek section.

General Rutherford, one of North Carolina's outstanding leaders in the American Revolution, had his army in the vicinity of Columbus county when he was informed of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. Then after the British forces had left Wilmington, General Rutherford sent part of the American army back through Columbus county, enroute to the Pee Dee, where the troops were to be discharged. On the way west, these troops under the direction of Gen. Joseph Graham, stopped for a time at Marsh Castle, the home of Col. James B. White, just east of the present town of Whiteville. Previously, American forces had stopped there in anticipation of an engagement with Col. Gainey, leader of the Tory forces in upper Eastern South Carolina.

Facts relating to the activities of the American Revolutionary forces in Columbus county are brought out in the papers of Gen. Joseph Graham, collected in a volume by Major William A. Graham:

“Colonel Gainey, who commanded the Tories in South Carolina between the Waccamaw, Pee Dee and Drowning Creek (Lumber River) and who was at this time under a truce with General Marion, by some means or other had notice of a party of the North Carolina Whigs being so near his district, and had collected about eighty of his adherents.

“We had one man killed — - Lieutenant Clark — - and three others wounded; four horses were killed, two of which were shot down under the dragoons which they charged, and several horses wounded. Only one of the enemy was killed. After burying the soldier and fixing the wounded for traveling, the party marched up to the White Marsh and encamped at Marsh Castle. It was believed Colonel Gainey might be reinforced and make another attack at this place. Considerable defences were made with fence rails, in such a manner that if the enemy had come, he would have been under a cross fire in all directions. Gaps were made in the enclosure for the cavalry to move whenever wanted.

“On the next day we marched by Waccamaw Lake and joined Colonel Smith above Livingston Creek. On the succeeding day we heard considerable firing of small arms in the direction where General Rutherford lay. In the evening

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Lieutenant Colonel Lee, of the United States Legion arrived. He had come by way of General Rutherford's camp from American headquarters in Virginia, and brought intelligence that Lord Cornwallis and the British army were captured on the 19th of October, and that General Rutherford, on receiving the news, had drawn up his army and fired a “feu de joie” which was the firing we had heard.

“Colonel Lee moved to the South to join General Greene, and in the evening several gentlemen from Wilmington came to us and informed us the British were evacuating that place. On the next day we moved to Shaw's Plantation, within four miles of the town; heard that the whole British troops were on board, and the vessels falling down the river. Two vessels were procured and manned, and we went down the river from Shaw's to town. The enemy's vessels were out of sight”:

General Rutherford, from Wilmington on November 10, 1781 issued an order to Major Joseph Graham, directing him to take command of “the whole of the dragoon and mounted infantry of Col. Smith's Corps which were to the leftward of the Northeast River, to join Col. Leonard in controlling the territory to the west “then march your company home, not suffering them to disperse until you may have crossed the Great Pee Dee”.

Major Graham took charge of the troops and marched them through Columbus county. On November 21, he issued a marching order from Marsh Castle, insisting that “the most profound silence and the greatest order is observed on the march through the whole of this route”.

The next day, Major Graham issued marching orders again from Camp Emory's Bridge. The third day orders were issued from Camp Barnes’ plantation, Ashpole (Fairmont) this order carrying instructions not “to fire a gun if it can be avoided”

For years, it was popular legend that Lord Cornwallis, after his defeat of General Nathaniel Greene's forces at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, in which he lost so many troops that he was forced to back up as far as Wilmington, in his retreat to the New Hanover capital blazed the first trail across the White Marsh for what is now a widely travelled U. S. Highway dividing Columbus county practically in half. The State Historical Commission has never been able to find any substantiation for this claim, and it is now accepted as pure fiction.

However, history does record that Lord Cornwallis, on that historic retreat that eventually led him to the surrender at Yorktown, traversed the northeastern tip of what is now Columbus county, and a marker commemorating this fact has been erected near historic Wayman church near Delco.

Before the coming of the white men—largely English people from New England—what is now Columbus county was

inhabited by the Waccamaw Indian tribe. Watcoosa was king of the tribe at the time the white people began settling this area, roughly about 1663. Many Indian names still remain in Columbus county, as for example: Lake Waccamaw, Wananish, Nakina and others.

After the formation of Columbus county, James B. White was a member of the General Assembly in 1809, while Wynn Nance and Thomas Frink sat in the House of Commons.

In the soil of this county rest the last remains of one famous Revolutionary general, Robert Howe, whose body is interred near Wayman church on the northeastern outskirts of the county. Two other noble patriots in the fight for American Independence, Ensign Shadrach Wooten and Captain Absalom Powell are buried at Western Pong and Lake Waccamaw, respectively. Fitting markers to the memory of these three patriots have been erected in recent years.

Columbus County was originally a part of old Bath precinct, organized under the English Crown in 1696. This Precinct extended from Albemarle County to the Cape Fear river and beyond. In 1729, the southern part of this precinct was erected into the precinct of New Hanover. In 1734, Bladen was formed from New Hanover, and in 1764, Brunswick was formed from New Hanover. What is now Columbus County, has therefore been a part of Bath, New Hanover, Bladen and Brunswick counties.

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Marsh Castle is mentioned several times in Colonial records and by Revolutionary historians later. It was built on White Marsh just east of Whiteville by General Hugh Waddell, who also owned a home near Belfont (Elizabethtown).

“We know that Indians once roamed this territory” Mrs. J. A. Brown writes in her history of the county. “When the first settlers from the Barbadoes came up the Cape Fear they called them the Cape Fear Indians—Waccamaw and Saponas. The Waccamaws were a peaceful tribe, and when the whites began coming in, rather than have any unpleasantness, they are supposed to have voluntarily withdrawn and joined the Catawbas further west, and some at least, the Seminoles in Florida. It is said that the celebrated chief of the Seminoles, Osceola, was born on Waccamaw river, and tradition says that his father was one John Powell, a white man living there”.

From the time of the first settlements of Columbus county until just before the outbreak of the War Between the States, private schools supplied Columbus county with all of its educational facilities. Scattering and fragmentary documentary evidence indicates there may have been as many as seven public schools in the county about the time the war closed.

Although North Carolina passed its first state-wide school law as early as 1839, the first references to any schools in Columbus county in connection with the state-wide development came in 1864. Four years after this date the county commissioners, as shown in official records, ordered that Haynes Lennon, Calvin C. Gore, Jackson Powell, and Isaac Powell “former” county superintendents of common schools, file a report including “a specific statement under oath of the funds and security which have been and are now in their hands as the chairmen of said board”.

At the next meeting of the board, the report was filed and showed “that we, the undersigned, superintendents of common schools for Columbus county, North Carolina, hereby certify that there is in the hands of our chairman, Haynes Lennon, a state draft issued August 27, 1864, for eight hundred and eighty-four and 89-100 dollars, and confederate funds amounting to $4,600 amounting in all to $5,553.00. In 1868 the county had 49 school districts, but the commissioners appointed committees to lay off school districts in the several townships “taking care to use as many of the school houses now in existance as may be practicable”.

By act of the legislature of 1868 the county commissioners appointed A. I. Butner as “county examiner of schools”. Mr. Butner served only a short time, being succeeded by Col. T. F. Toon, who served until 1873.

In 1869, the schools of Columbus county received a total of $1,697 for public funds for operating purposes. In 1870, county taxes for schools were levied by townships as follows:

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The Legislature of 1872 abolished the office of “county examiner” and ordered the appointment of three residents of the county of “good moral character and suitable attainments” to be known as a “board of examiners. In 1877, the Columbus county board of commissioners named a board composed of Dr. C. G. Wyche, John Morrison and W. C. Powell, with Dr. Wyche as chairman. Others who served on this board soon afterwards were H. B. Short. Melton Campbell, and Alexander Kirkland.

In 1881, the county commissioners, serving as a board of education, awarded a scholarship at the University of North Carolina to a young man who was later to play an important role in the county educational history—James Bion Schulken.

With the changing of the law, J. W. Ellis was elected as the first county superintendent of public instruction. By 1885, the county had 121 schools, with an average of nine and one half weeks of instruction for the year, and a total cost of $7,219.07.

After training at the state university, James Bion Schulken returned to Columbus county in 1884 to become county superintendent of schools at a salary of $3.00 a day The same year the first board of education was elected as follows: Rev. H. Lennon, Samuel F. McDaniel, and H. A. McEachern, and Mr. McDaniel became chairman. The total school enrollment for the year was 2,284 whites and 1,414 negroes.

In 1886, Mr. Schulken resigned as head of the school system to enter the legal profession, and Pearson Ellis was appointed in his stead. A teacher institute was held in Whiteville in 1887, with $75 appropriated to meet the expenses.

Establishment of school libraries was begun in 1901, and in 1902 Rev. F. T. Wooten succeeded L. W. Stanley as superintendent. Mr. Wooten has been aptly called “the father of education in Columbus county”. He continued in office until 1921. When he began, there was a total school fund amounting to $10,875, school property was valued at $9,151, school terms averaged two and a half months a year.

When Mr. Wooten resigned in 1921, school property was valued at $238,930, school terms had advanced to an average of six months, fifty school libraries had been installed, consolidation of schools had begun, health clinics had been introduced, and enrollment for Columbus county had jumped to 7,911.

During the period from 1931 to 1933, many new agriculture, home economics and commercial departments were added to the schools of the county. A report in 1934 showed the following as some of the interesting facts and figures of that date:

There were 16 brick and 32 frame school buildings in Columbus county. The value of school property was set at more than $700,000. There were 26 libraries, with 23,261 volumes of books. Nearly 4,000 students were being transported daily by trucks, and the school enrollment was 11,344, with 160 day term for the year. There were 300 teachers employed in the schools.

Today, the county has more than 12,000 students enrolled in the schools approximately half of them being transported to school by school busses. The length of the term has been extended to 180 days, and there are some 360 teachers engaged in the schools of the county.

Following the activities of turpentine workers and lumber companies some 8000 acres of virgin forest lands around Chadbourn were denuded and left as cut-over lands. In 1895 Joseph A. Brown, then a young man who had recently moved to Chadbourn from Whiteville, recognized that the land was good farm land, and that the need was for energetic farmers to clear and till it.

He heard that Howard and Wilson, editors and publishers of “Farm, Field and Fireside”, of Chicago, leading agricultural journal of the northwest, were interested in bringing farmers from that section to the balmier climate of

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In April, 1895 the first excursion was run from Chicago to Chadbourn, filled with interested men, fleeing the rigorous winters of the northwest and attracted by the climate and the reasonable land prices.

Among these very first comers were Byron W. (“Pop”) Moors and his son, Rufus King Moors, who came fully determined to stay, for they brought their household goods, cattle and feed with them. The other men came to look and decide. Some remained and sent for their families; some returned west, sold out their holdings there and returned, bringing their families. The Ramsbottoms, Porters and Parmelees were among these. Other families coming that first year were Howes, Cases, Leonharts, Crawfords, Hortons, Harnleys and many others.

In that same year, 1895, Joseph A. Brown made a successful experiment of growing strawberries for market on his farm near Chadbourn. He encouraged the colonists to plant berries that year as a money crop, and the enterprise was a success from the beginning. This industry had much to do with the early success of the Sunny South Colony,—but tha tis another story.

Pleased first settlers spread the news of the colony through the press and letters back home, so that between 1895 and 1898 one hundred and sixty families from Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and New York came to buy and settle. Three families made a romantic journey of more than 2,000 miles in covered wagons,—the “prairie schooner” of the west.

A map of the Sunny South Colony still preserved, printed in 1897 stated that all the lts (farms) shown north of the Railroad except two had been sold, and about half of those south of the Railroad, but that more good farm land was being added to the colony land. The price of the land was stated to be from $5.00 to $30.00 per acre, on easy payment terms.

Many of these 160 families in course of time drifted back, but a much larger number remained to become permanent and successful residents of the county. They brought energy and intelligence to their farming, and the land yielded her increase. Their children and grand children are today leading citizens of Chadbourn and Columbus county.

Recognized names among us include Moors, Lowe, Boughner,

Miller, Koons, Leonhart, Strole, Newland, Penn. Wilkes, Thompson, Bailey, Lewis, Horton, Tipton, Crawford, Marshall, Boege and others.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: We are deeply indebted to Mrs. J. A. Brown, of Chadbourn, and the county's leading historian, for many of the facts which we have included in this sketch of the history of Columbus County).

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For the fiscal year, 1944-45, Columbus county is operating on a budget of $495,983.58. In the county, there are 16,000 taxpayers, and a total valuation of approximately $22,000,000, real and personal property. The county wide tax rate in $1.34.

The board of commissioners consisting of five members, acts as the governing body over county affairs. Constitutional officers include the sheriff, clerk of court, and register of deeds.

The outstanding indebtedness of Columbus county amounts as of June 3 to $1,234,243.13 which consists of money spent for the courthouse, road and bridge construction, school buildings, state literary loans and county notes.

The courthouse in Whiteville was erected in 1914 at an approximate cost of $50,000, including furniture, heating and lighting. This is the third courthouse in the county since it was founded in 1808. Within the past year, the last of the 30-year notes on the courthouse have been paid off, so that this building is now entirely debt free.

Built in 1937, at an approximate cost of $55,000.00, the Columbus county home is located a mile west of Whiteville on a 140 acre tract of land, upon which sufficient supplies for the needs of the inmates are raised each year. The inmates are amply provided for at all times. The keeping of the home is in the capable hands of Mrs. Annie Lou Cowan.

Three miles southeast of Whiteville, near the town of Brunswick, is situated State Prison Camp 303, a modern structure built entirely from state funds in 1938. Taking the average, about 100 prisoners are usually incarcerated in this camp. They are used to work state-maintained roads of the county.

The county jail, sitting on property near the courthouse, was built in 1908, at an approximate cost of $12,000. An interesting fact in this regard is that the jail was built from money in the treasury, no money being borrowed for the purpose.

Another county-owned institution of which the people of Columbus are justly proud is the $100,000 Columbus County Hospital, located on the eastern outskirts of Whiteville. This hospital, opened in 1939, is one of the best equipped institutions in this section of the country, and annually ehas thousands of patients.

The county is divided up into fifteen townships, and there are 22 voting precincts. Each township is entitled to

a township constable, and may also have a deputy sheriff.

Taking the aggregate, the county each year has 12 weeks of court, in January, February, May, June, September, October and November. The presiding judge and solicitor are paid out of state funds, but the county is responsible for the pay of the jury and court officers. Witness’ fees in insolvent cases are paid by the county on a basis of one half in all except capital offenses.

Something over 2,000 miles of state maintained roads lie in Columbus county, and approximately 150 miles of it paved.

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AREA—In Columbus county, the third largest in the State of North Carolina, there are 933 square miles and 386,865 acres of land. The general topography of the area is flat, as would naturally be expected in the Southeastern coastal plain section.

SOIL—The soil contains a loamy, sometimes sandy surface. Rich and fertile, in many places the use of commercial fertilizer is practically unnecessary. Lowlands are subject to overflow in particularly rainy weather.

CLIMATE—Generally mild, but often subject to violent fluctuations, the climate of the county may be generally considered moderate. Seldom during winter months does the temperature descend below the freezing point. The lowest record in recent years was 4 above zero.

WATER—The water here contains such a large amount of mineral deposit that it is unusually hard. Far below the earth's surface there are minerals which have this hardening effect upon the water. Subterranean water streams are profuse, no difficulty being often encountered in sinking pumps or digging open wells to find sufficient water available. None of the large towns find it necessary to pipe water from nearby streams, but simply bore into the ground. The water contains a quantity of alkaline.

MINERALS—Although Columbus county can be considered rich in minerals, mining has never been a profitable industry. A quantity of sandstone in the area contains an iron deposit, too small ever to be profitably mined. Many years ago an attempt to mine this iron proved to be too expensive a proposition to be profitable. Moreover, in the county there are rich veins of talc, aften made into talcum powder. Particularly near Boardman are these veins found, and despite extensive plans from time to time to mine it, none of them has ever materialized. Scattered over Columbus county are limestone pits, and large quantities of marl. In the unexplored depths below what is Columbus county, lies a wealth of minerals of yet undetermined nature. Their presence there is unquestioned, water coming from the depths reflecting association with mineral deposits.

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A wounderful system of diversified farming has been developed in Columbus county, whereby growers have three or even four crops bringing in money at various intervals during the year. The principal commodities raised strictly for their monetary value are strawberries, cotton, tobacco, beans. Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, and truck crops. Most of them are marketed at different intervals during the year, and are the source of much money being brought into the county perhaps which otherwise might not come.

A survey shows that in the year 1944, there were a total of 129,900 acres of land under cultiva‘ion in the county. The same year, 3,000 acres were lying idle, against 6,700 acres in the year preceding. Also, 179,080 acres were covered with usable sized trees and 6,000 were in plowable pasture cleared land.

The county lies in the South Carolina tobacco belt, and has four active, thriving markets at Whiteville, Chadbourn, Fair Bluff and Tabor City. During the 1944 season, there were 21,500 acres of land utilized for the cultivation of tobacco, which figures represented an increase over the year preceding. In 1943 there were 19,459.7 acres of tobacco under cultivation.

The tobacco crop brings in more money to this county than any other industary. During 1943 the four markets of the county sold a total of 20,432,680 pounds for a total of $8,097,471.08, or an average of $39.63 per hundred-weight.

The tobacco industry was first introduced into the county about 1896, but was not successfully grown or marketed until about 1914. Fair Bluff was the first town in the county to have a market.

Whiteville did not have a successful market until about 1914, the next year or two witnessing the birth of the Tabor City and Chadbourn markets.

Since that time the four markets of the county have grown by leaps and bounds until they represent today a veritable stronghold in the Bright Leaf Border Belt. Whiteville has six warehouses and a redrying plant. Chadbourn has three warehouses, Fair Bluff four, and Tabor City three. These markets together have a total capacity of between two and three million pounds, and floor space of something near three-quarters of a million square feet.

The third largest money crop in the county is strawberries, bringing around $761,210.00 into Columbus during

the 1944 season. There are two markets in the county, at Chadbourn and Tabor City, the former being one of the leading markets in the United States.

During the 1944 season Chadbourn sold a total of 49,498 crates for a total of approximately $494,980.00, while Tabor City sold approximately 26,623 crates for a total of approximately $266,230.00.

The specie of berry which has made this county famous is the palatable Klondyke, which is particularly adapted to this area. Chadbourn was at one time the largest strawberry market in the world.

Strawberry shipments from this county began about 1897, and from that date the crop increased to such an extent that in 1906 more than $600.000 worth of berries were shipped from the county. The greatest strawberry year in the history of our county was 1907 when more than 1,600 cars moved out from county markets. The largest single day's shipment of which there is record was made during this season when a total of 180 carloads moved out in a day.

Whereas cotton was once the principal money crop in Columbus county, the advent of the Boll Weevil more than two decades ago forced this crop into the background. Although a slight increase could be noted in the acreage and production in 1944 over the preceding year, the crop can by no means compare with the pinnacle of production achieved

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Statistics show that in 1944, 5,000 acres of land were devoted to the production of cotton, as compared with 4,470 acres for the preceding year. During the year 1943, a total of 4,300 bales of cotton were ginned in the county, over a total of 4,500 bales for the year before.

The first available record indicates that a Dr. Formy Duval in 1815 raised the first bale of cotton to be shipped from Columbus county. It was skidded to White Hall, and shipped by pole boat to Wilmington. It is tradition that it was hand-seeded and pressed in Jonathan Pierce's cider press.

In 1900, Columbus county produced about 6,000 bales of cotton. This crop continued to increase, until the annual production reached 12,000 bales, which computed at $100 a bale, brought to the county a total annual income of $1,200,000 from this source.

During the year 1944, Tabor City's bean market enjoyed a successful season, selling thousands of hampers. The marketing of beans in the border town has become an industry rivaling the strawberry and tobacco crops in Columbus, offering the fifth money crop for its farmers.

Figures show that during the year 1944, a total of 49,200 acres of land in Columbus county were devoted to

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the production of corn. Some 4,600 acres were sown in wheat, 5,400 acres in oats, no acres in rye, 4,800 acres in peanuts, 600 acres in barley, 1,500 acres in lespedeza. Further, 100 acres of cowpeas were grown alone.

Acres of cowpeas devoted to hay numbered 5,420, while 6,850 acres were devoted to growing soybeans with hay. Mixed hays covered a total area of 13,900 acres. Some 2,000 acres of small grain were cut for hay.

Some 3,910 were devoted to the production of Irish potatoes this year, and 5,500 acres to sweet potatoes.

Truck crops covered 2,525 acres, while home gardens covered a total of 3,210 acres.

By all odds the most regulated crop in Columbus county is its 179,080 acres of farm woodland and a total of 451,640 acres covered with various size trees.

Over one-half of all land owned by farmers is woodland, and during 1944 farmers of Columbus county received in cash for forest products over $1,250,000.00.

While the woods give us a sizeable income ranking next to tobacco in farm income, with proper care and management this figure would increase to over $3,000,000 annually to farmers of Columbus county.

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This area is served by the Tide Water Power Company in the distribution of electric current. The principal office of this company is in Wilmington, but it maintains a branch office in Whiteville, where H. M. Leaman is the manager.

It serves approximately 2,698 families in this area, embracing Whiteville, Chadbourn, Tabor City, Evergreen, Fair Bluff, Cerro Gordo, Hallsboro, Bolton, Lake Waccamaw and outlying territory.

The Tide Water Power Company acquired this property in Columbus county in August, 1924, and since that time the cost of service to the electric customer has been reduced at various times to a point where the average rate is approximately 11c per KWH lower than at the time of acquisition.

At the time of acquisition, service was rendered on a dusk to dawn basis only.

Serving much of the rural area of Columbus county is the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, with home

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office at Shallotte. This organization has a total of 950 subscribers in Columbus county, with 300 miles of line in the county.

The Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation rates are as follows: $2.00 minimum for 25 kilowatt hours; 6 cents per kilowatt for the next 25 kilowatts; 3 1-2 cents for the next 50; 2 1-2 cents for the next 100; and all over that at 1 3-4 cents per kilowatt. On range and water heater rates, there is a rate of 1.2 cents on the first 200 KWH.

Around 1,250 Columbus county homes are equipped with telephones, though many more would be so equipped if it were not for the limitations imposed by the war. The county has two telephone exchanges: The Columbus Telephone Company of Whiteville, which serves Whiteville, Tabor City and Chadbourn, as well as outlying areas, and The Service Telephone Company, of Fair Bluff, which serves that town and its immediate environs.

The Columbus Telephone Company has been operating in this vicinity for a great many years. It is owned by H. R. Cook, of Charlotte, who purchased it about 15 years ago. R. R. Cook is manager, and the exchange serves about 1,000 subscribers throughout this section of the county. Chadbourn and Tabor City have the dial system.

The Columbus Telephone Company's rates are $2.00 for a residential party line, $2.50 for a private residential line.

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The Service Telephone Company of Fair Bluff, which has been in operation there since about 1936, is owned by the State Blind Commission. It was purchased by the Commission from the Scott Brothers in 1942, and W. H. Hawkins is manager of the exchange. To begin with, the exchange served 52 subscribers in 1942, and now has 83 patrons. Rates run $2.00 for a residential party line, and $2.50 for a private residential line. Business telephone rates are $3.00 and $3.50.

Columbus is served by two main railroad lines: The Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line. Together they have a total of 84.16 miles of track in the county. The Coast Line, with a line running from Wilmington to Augusta, and another from Elrod to Coway, has a total of 75.31 miles of track in Columbus, while the Wilmington-Charlotte-Rutherford branch of the Seaboard has 8.85 miles in the county.

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Prompted by a very noble purpose, a number of Whiteville's loyal daughters of the South, held a meeting in the month of March, 1903, to organize a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The gathering took place in the little schoolhouse which stood at that time on a hillside where the homes of Major R. J. Lamb and John Carter now stand on Jefferson Street.

Mrs. Henry A. London, of Pittsboro, an invited guest, was present, and gave an enthusiastic talk concerning the objects of the organization. Responsive chords were touched, and from this meeting came into existance for the first time the Jefferson Davis Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy of Whiteville. The choice of the name for the chapter was unanimous—they remembered that—“Whatever record leaped to light—this name could not be shamed”.

Twenty charter members were enrolled. The following were the first officers: President, Mrs. Isaac Jackson First-Vice-President,

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One of the oldest organizations for women in Columbus county, the records for forty-one years show loving, loyal devotion in fulfilling its sacred duty. The membership today represents nearly every section of the county. The chapter has gained recognition in the state for distinctive services rendered.

The Whiteville Civitan Club was organized in 1937, and now has an active membership of 30 members, along with 17 members in the armed services. John M. Barkley is president of the club, John W. Mooney, vice-president, William G. Bradshaw, secretary, and Eugene Porter, treasurer. The board of directors is composed of the following: Rev. S. N. Lamb, Rev. J. R. Kennedy, Joe D. Sikes, Richard E. Weaver, and F. M. White Jr.

The Civitan club has been instrumental in many worthwhile projects in Whiteville since it was organized, and has contributed much to the cultural and progressive life of the community.

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Over 20 years ago, or in 1924, the Whiteville Rotary Club had its beginning. Will W. Schulken was the first president, and J. H. McIver the first secretary.

Officers of the club today, which has a total of 42 members, are: D. L. Love, president, F. B. Foster, vice-president, F. M. Smith, secretary and treasurer. Directors are: D. L. Love, F. B. Foster, Rufus Marks, Dr. T. Formy Duval, F. M. Smith, J. S. Mann.

The Chadbourn Rotary Club was organized in 1938, and today has a total of 32 members. Frank T. Wooten is president of the club, W. N. Peal is vice-president, and W. L. Albright is secretary-treasurer. Directors are: Frank T. Wooten, W. N. Peal, W. L. Albright, C. L. Tate, T. O. Goodman, J. H. Bullock, and B. Gordon Lewis.

First president of the club was Lester V. Lowe, who is now serving with the Army of the United States.

The Major General Robert Howe chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in 1945, having been organized in Chadbourn at the home of Mrs. Joseph A. Brown November 26, 1935, with 14 organizing members and 22 charter members. Mrs. W. H. Belk, state regent, had

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appointed Mrs. W. B. Carson, Acme, as organizing regent for a chapter in Columbus county.

At the organization meeting the following officers were named: Regent, Mrs. W. B. Carson; Vice Regent, Mrs. J. A. Brown; Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. H. Land; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. B. F. Applewhite; Treasurer, Mrs. T. V. Moore; Registrar, Mrs. S. L. Smith; Historian, Mrs. H. L. Stevens, Jr., Warsaw; Chaplain, Mrs. W. L. Wilson.

The chapter was named for North Carolina's only Major General of the Continental Army of the Revolution, a distinguished son of Eastern Carolina, whose grave is in Columbus county.

The objects of the Society are patriotic, historical and educational. It is concerned with locating, preserving and marking historical spots and graves of Revolutionary soldiers; in finding and preserving historical documents and data, and geneological records; in promoting patriotism in every way possible, notably by celebration of all patriotic anniversaries, teaching reverence for the flag, its history and correct use, and in promoting the study of our nation's early history and its founders, by young and old.

The chapter has rescued and preserved the grave of Elizabeth Hooper Watters, only daughter of William Hooper, North Carolina signer of the Declaration of Independence; established the authenticity of Cornwallis’ route through the county over Highway 87 by Weyman Church, and on April

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30, 1941 secured and dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, markers on the highway near these spots.

Mrs. S. L. Smith, chairman of Markers for Patriots, has collected this year authentic data on James B. White, Columbus county's first senator for whom the county seat is named. After the war the chapter will erect a suitable memorial to his memory.

The chapter historian has collected the war service records of all close relatives of chapter members of World War II.

The chapter has brought distinguished speakers to the county, among them Dr. C. C. Crittenden, secretary of the N. C. Historical Commission; Miss Gertrude Carraway, distinguished newspaper woman and active in many patriotic organizations; Bishop Thomas C. Darst of Eastern Diocese, and state and national D. A. R. officers.

The chapter has furnished to the state organization a District Director, Mrs. J. H. Land, two state chairmen, Mrs. W. B. Carson and Mrs. S. L. Smith. It has won several state and national prizes for patriotic work in the schools.

The following have served as chapter regents: Mrs. W. B. Carson, Mrs. S. L. Smith, Mrs. J. A. Brown, Mrs. H. L. Lyon and Mrs. A. E. Powell, present encumbent.

In September, 1939, Mrs. David Smith, then president of

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the Whiteville Woman's club invited some of the business women of the town to meet to discuss possibilities of organization of a new department for their club. The Business Women's department was the result, and the first meeting was held in October 1939.

Many worthwhile activities have been sponsored by the club, including installation of a watering system in the Whiteville cemetery, all-time support of the children's ward at the Columbus County Hospital; bandage rolling, knitting and other Red Cross activities; contributions to the Service Center, Civilian Defense, War Bond Activities, Community Chest.

Mrs. W. T. Mottinger is the present president of the club. The special project for this year is placing a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica in the library of the Whiteville High school. This has been ordered and will be donated soon. The club is now planning to federate with the National Organization of the Business and Professional Woman's Clubs. There are 36 members of the club at this time.

Tabor City Post No. 101 of American Legion is one of the oldest in the county, having been organized in 1922, with 15 charter members. For a while after organization, the hall downtown was used by the post, but in 1934 the Legionnaires bought a lot near the school house and erected

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There are now 35 members of the Post. R. C. Harrelson is commander, C. H. Pinner, adjutant; R. T. Bruton, finance officer, and G. L. Dorman, vice-commander.

The post has engaged in many worthwhile activities during the year. At present it is attempting to maintain standard service to disabled veterans, and widows and orphans of veterans, furnish transportation to the hospital when hospitalization is needed, and aiding returning veterans of World War II in any way and every way possible.

The Waccamaw Book Club was organized about 12 years ago with ladies of Hallsboro. Lake Waccamaw and intervening vicinity as members.

Mrs. G. E. Dorward is president of the club, Mrs. R. G. Lytton, secretary, Mrs. K. C. Council, treasurer, and Mrs. Edison Council is program chairman.

The organization holds meetings monthly—every third Tuesday afternoon in the homes of the members. The club has 20 members and has a club room, which is at the present time being used by the Red Cross.

Outstanding among its activities have been participating in various civic activities, bond drives and the like. It is a member of the General Federation and State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. J. M. Council, of Lake Waccamaw,

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The Hallsboro Woman's Club is a member of the State Federation, and has about 14 active members at the present time. It was organized 15 years ago, having first been operated as a home demonstration club.

One of its major projects during the past few years has been the creation of a community center in the old Baptist church building in Hallsboro, which is now being used extensively.

Mrs. John W. Hall is the president of the club, and Mrs. A. Q. Dew is the incoming president. Mrs. W. A. Thompson is secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. J. A. Wyche is program chairman.

The club has done much useful work in Hallsboro, having built a lunch room for the school, and has done an outstanding work for the Red Cross.

The Pioneer Study Club of Tabor City was organized on January 8, 1936, at the home of Mrs. Dewey H. Bell. Originally the membership was limited to 16, but the club now has a total of 25 members.

Mrs. Raymond B. Mallard is president of the club, having succeeded Mrs. J. F. Butler when the latter recently resigned. Miss Butler is secretary.

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The organization meeting of the Whiteville Garden Club was held September 29, 1939, with 13 charter members. The object of the organization was to “stimulate and unite the efforts of the women of Whiteville in making our town more beautiful.” “Whiteville Beautiful” was the motto chosen.

Interesting events sponsored by the club have been the very successful flower show in the armory May 8-9, 1940, and other smaller ones; a visit by the club to Brooksgreen Gardens, S. C., Orton Plantation, Airlee and other Wilmington gardens.

Outstanding achievement of the club to date is the plan to make a “Memorial Garden” of the Columbus County Hospital grounds.

Mrs. B. S. Thompson is president of the club, Mrs. W. M. Boice is vice-president, and Mrs. G. R. McNeill secretary and treasurer.

The Klondyke Post of American Legion, at Chadbourn, was organized in 1931 with John V. Strole as commander. The hut was built the following year. The first year the post had 40 members, and 86 the second year.

At the present time the commander of the post is E. L. Derrick, and there are 54 members.

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fact that the hut was built and paid for without any member ever having had to pay a cent from his pocket. The money for the lot and building came out of proceeds from the strawberry festival and square dances which were sponsored by the Klondyke post.

The berry festival, which was an annual event until the war came, was outstanding throughout this entire section of the state, and featured such nationally known dance bands as Guy Lombardo, Jan Garber, Jimmy Dorsay, Bob Chester, and a great many others.

Another very worthwhile project of the Klondyke post was out on during the days of depression when tonsil clinics were conducted in Chadbourn—about 300 operations having been performed over a two year period of time.

Besides Mr. Derrick as commander, other officers at present are: R. R. Koons, finance officer; C. L. Tate, service officer; F. T. Wooten, adjutant.

Up until this year, Mr. Strole had served successively as commander of the post with the exception of one year—that being the year he was elected and served as district American Legion commander.

The Fair Bluff Civitan club, the first such club to be organized in Columbus County, was organized in 1938. At that time, Andrew Joyner, then district Civitan Governor,

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of Greensboro, came down for the organization meeting. Since that time the club has continued a steady growth and has offered much to the Fair Bluff community in the way of worthwhile projects.

Officers of the club recently elected include. Ellis Divine Meares, president; Bob King, vice-president; Jesse Taylor, secretary; and E. A. Waller, treasurer. Rev. E. N. Johnson was the retiring president.

The Tabor City Civitan Club received its charter on the night of October 31st, 1937, with James W. Peay as first president of the club.

In the years that have followed the club has continued to grow and now is an integral part of that town and community, having enjoyed a steadily growing membership.

The Whiteville Woman's Club, originally known as The Civic League, was organized in March, 1909, with Mrs. A. E. Powell, president, Mrs. D. J. Lewis, vice-president, Mrs. H. F. Schulken, treasurer, and Mrs. P. G. Hufford, secretary.

Mrs. W. R. Davis, a charter member, has maintained a continuous membership since organization of the club, and is an active member now. In 1914 the name was officially changed to The Woman's Club, thus becoming the first in the county.

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Mrs. Powell served as president until 1921. This administration laid the foundation for many of the civic advantages Whiteville has today.

Other president have included Mrs. F. M. Hester, Mrs. J. B. Schulken, Mrs. W. F. Spears, Mrs. E. K. Proctor, Mrs. S. L. Smith, Mrs. N. B. Chesnutt, Mrs. R. C. Wells, Mrs. R. L. Sholar, Mrs. R. M. Lewis and Mrs. David Smith, and Mrs. G. O. Rogers, the last named being president now.

The club has, through its 36 years since organization, accomplished much in the town of Whiteville.

Numbered among its outstanding activities have been the development of fine arts programs, continuation of child welfare, and closer cooperation with other civic organizations in bettering the town and community; creation of a recreational program, sponsoring a Girl Scout troop, and cooperating with the Junior Woman's Club purchasing a lot for a club house, planting of the courthouse grounds and plazas on Madison Street with grass and shrubs, development of music appreciation, planting of a living Christmas tree on the courthouse square.

In Columbus county there are 12 Home Demonstration Clubs, with a total of 256 members. Clubs are located at Bethel, Bolton, Cerro Gordo, Clarendon, Crusoe, Fair Bluff, Hallsboro, Livingston Chapel, Mishop Springs, Nakina, Pireway

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The first was organized at Mishop Springs about 18 months ago. Bolton has the largest club.

The clubs meet each month in the homes of members, and discuss various phases of home-making.

There are three active 4-H Clubs in Columbus County for boys and girls at the present time, with a total of 102 members. These are located at South Whiteville, Bolton, and Mishop Springs.

The four white and six colored troops of the Boy Scouts of America in Columbus County comprise the South Central District of the Cape Fear Council. W. N. Peal, of Chadbourn, is chairman of the South Central District, and J. A. Maultsby, of Whiteville, is president of the Cape Fear Council.

A total of 162 Scouts are members of the 10 troops in the county.

The Fair Bluff Post of American Legion was organized about 1927 and at the present time has a total of 21 members. J. A. Turner is commander, Dr. M. A. Waddell, vice-commander, E. A. Waller, adjutant, and J. M. Turner, finance officer.

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The Post has an active Auxiliary as well.

One of the oldest and most active Women's Clubs in Columbus County is at Evergreen. This organization is a member of both State and National Federations, and has been ever since its organization 21 years ago.

Mrs. R. F. Benton is president, Mrs. W. D. Brooks, secretary and treasurer.

There are 14 members at present. Activities of the club have been widespread. On two successive occasions it took state prizes for the most tree setting, and has copped many other district and state prizes as well.

At the present time, the club is engaged in the Cancer Drive and the gathering of clothing for the United National Clothing Collection.

The Maids and Matrons club of Chadbourn was organized first as the Chadbourn Study Club in 1901 with both men and women as members, continuing thus until 1906. At this time, the men having withdrawn, re-organization as the Young Matrons Club left a membership of twelve women.

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to thirty-two.

The prime movers in the early organization and work of the club were Miss Lily Wheeler, Miss Estelle Newland, Mrs. J. B. Chadbourn, Mrs. J. A. Brown and B. H. Harnley. The subject of the first year's study was “American Authors and Composers.” The leading purpose of the club in the beginning was study, developing later into wider service through its various departments, particularly those of Literature, Civics and Education.

Perhaps the most important accomplishment has been the establishment of the Educational Loan Fund, whereby high school graduates may obtain loans for college education. Other projects sponsored by the club have been street beautification by planting shrubs and trees; bringing cultural entertainment to the town; supporting health and social service causes, and the organization of a Junior club which later developed into the Sorosis club.

The club has furnished to the State Federation the following officers: State chairman of Music, Mrs. J. A. Brown; three district presidents. Mrs. J. B. Bardin, Mrs. J. A. Brown and Mrs. J. B. Elliott; one National officer, District Contact Chairman for the General Federation, Mrs. J. H. Land.

Recognition of literary merit has come to the club through the award of State Federation prizes to Mrs. J. B. Barden for a short story, and to Mrs. Lucy Thompson for a narrative poem.

It is interesting to note that Mrs. J. A. Brown who was first president of the Young Matrons club in 1906 is acting in the same capacity in the Maid and Matrons club at the present time, 1945.

The Maids and Matrons club of Chadbourn is the oldest cultural club in the county.

In January 1938 a group of ambitious and energetic young women met for the purpose of discussing the organization of a civic club for the young women of Whiteville. Mrs. John Council, of Lake Waccamaw, was instrumental in organizing this group, and Mrs. R. C. Wells was chosen as sponsor. In March of that year, the club joined the National Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Succeeding years have witnessed many worthwhile projects for Whiteville under the sponsorship of this enterprising group of women, to mention only a few of these activities: sponsorship of a children's shelf at the library, first aid classes, publication of cook-book of tried recipes, raised $250.00 for nurses scholarships, and donated to innumerable fund raising drives.

One of the notable achievements of the club was last year when the club made an outstanding record in the Tobacco Warehouse Bond program, Columbus being the first county

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The Whiteville Post of American Legion, now listed as Post 137, was first organized in 1922 and revived in 1930. After the formation of posts at Chadbourn, Fair Bluff and Tabor City, the name was changed to the Whiteville post in 1934.

Emphasis has always been placed on service to the veterans of World War I and their dependents, and now it includes those of the present war, J. S. Mann, of Whiteville, is one of the outstanding service officers in the State and has helped hundreds of veterans to get hospitalization, compensation and discharge pay.

In 1941 a handsome and commodious brick hut was built, which is a community center for Whiteville. Thousands of soldiers have been entertained there over weekends, and since they come from all over the United States, the Whiteville Post has received, wide and favorable publicity. The following have served as commanders of the Whiteville post: Richard M. Lewis, Ben Elliott, Glenn F. Strole, D. L. Gore, W. M. Parker, R. L. Sholar, A. J. Krahnke, J. S. Mann, R. J. Lamb, Chester A. Farley, J. A. Maultsby and C. D. Henderson.

The Tabor City Rotary Club, which now has a total membership of 25 was first organized about February, 1937, and has had a record of constant growth and advancement since that time.

The club has as its president Dr. Grover S. Cox. Other officers include: Jack McGougan, vice-president, Rev. Winfrey Davis, secretary, Jimmy Hufham, treasurer, and Tom Rosser, sergeant-at-arms. Directors include these officers and Carlton Westmoreland and Jesse Baxter. Rev. Joseph Coble is editor of the Tabor City Rotary News, a bulletin published each week by the club, which proves both interesting and instructive to the club members.

There are eleven denominations represented in the church affiliates of Columbus county, including Missionary Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal Holiness, Pentecostal Fire-Baptised Holiness, Morman, Catholic, Episcopal, and Jewish.

Missionary Baptists are predominating in the county, having a little more than twice as many members as all other

of the churches combined. Methodists are second, and Free Will Baptists coming third.

Figures available on the church population of Columbus county contained in a survey made in 1933, showed the county had a total of 91 churches, with a total of 8,953 members. Of these, the Missionary Baptists had 39 churches and 5,079 members. The Methodist had 25 churches and 2,478 members.

Other denominations were as follows: Free Will Baptist, 6 churches and 487 members; Primitive Baptist, 3 churches and 96 members; Presbyterian, 6 churches and 472 members; Pentecostal Holiness, 2 churches and 37 members; Pentecostal Fire Baptised Holiness, 7 churches and 154 members; Morman, 1 church and 10 members; Catholic, 1 church and 65 members (Note: The Catholics now have six churches in the county). Episcopal, 1 church and 35 members; Jewish, no church and 40 members.

Among the oldest churches in the county were the First Presbyterian church which was recently town down, and the Presbyterian church in Whiteville was recently torn down, and the White Marsh and Mount Zion Baptist churches in Welches Creek township.

Some idea of the increase in church membership during the past 11 years can be gained from this partial 1944 survey made of the 11 denominations in the county:

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Columbus County, with its broad expanses of virgin forests, seething rivers, natural water power, and thousands of acres of fertile, cultivated soil, contains a wealth of natural resources. For that reason, farming and lumber manufacture have become the principal industries in this area.

The rich timberlands are noted not only for their natural scenic beauty, but also for their wealth of many different sorts of timber. At least two dozen larger and smaller lumber manufacturing plants have sprung up in the county and are operating with profit at the present time. An industry also associated with the timber manufacture is the veneer mill located in Hallsboro, which each year offers a ready market for much Columbus County gum and poplar.

Moreover, the county's two crate factories use quantities of Columbus hardwood in the manufacture of bean crates, strawberry cups and crates. One plant is situated in Tabor City, and another at Chadbourn.

While the Long Leaf Pine which once abounded in this county has been largely eradicated by manufacturing plants finishing lumber, nevertheless there is some of this native pine to be found in the county at the present time. The Short Leaf Pine is to be found still in great quantities.

In the swampy lowlands of the county can be found an abundance of Gum and Poplar, which finds a ready market with hardwood manufacturers. Oak can be found in quantities, as well as Cypress, the latter being harvested in quantity lots for use in lumber manufacture. By far the most prolific tree in this section, and one which can be found in greatest quantities, is the Pine of the short leaf variety. Lumber manufacturers find a ready market for this timber, and cut more of it than any other.

Natural water power of the rivers and streams in the county has been utilized for a long time in turning the wheels of corn mills, but generally speaking, that is the principal use to which the abundance of water power has been put up to the present.

In the lakes and streams of Columbus many varieties of fish are to be found. Lake Wacamaw, a broad expanse of water 5 by 7 miles in dimensions, furnishes a veritable paradise for the fisherman. In the waters of this lake are to be found perch, goggle-eye, cats, black fish, jacks, trout and some few shad have been caught from the lake.

In the other streams of the county, red-breasts, trout, perch, goggle-eye, black fish, pikes, jacks and others abound.

The principal body of water in this county is Lake

Wacamaw. The county has two principal rivers, the Waccamaw and the Lumber, the former being designated in the New York World Book of Facts as one of the 40 principal rivers of the United States. It is 550 miles long, has its origin on the Southern side of Lake Wacamaw and flows into the Greater Pedee river at a point below Georgetown near th Atlantic Ocean. Lumber river, which follows the Western boundary line of the county, enters the county at a point above old Boardman, and proceeds on a southerly course to a point below Georgetown, S. C., where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It leaves this county a short distance from Fair Bluff, which town was built on its beautiful moss covered banks.

Lake Waccamaw is a fastly growing pleasure resort. It furnishes an ideal place for bathing, boating and fishing. During the winter months duck hunting along the banks of this sheet of water is a popular pastime, enticing sportsmen from all sections of the state.

The principal natural resource of Columbus County is the fertile soil which lies within its bounds. As a result of this fact, farming is by all odds the principal industry of the county, and in which more than 15,000 people are engaged.

The Columbus County Farm Bureau, a member of the State and National Federations, was first organized a decade ago, and reorganized in 1940. The Columbus Bureau, with a total of 2,472 members, stands second only to Pitt County in membership, and is one of the most active such organizations in the State.

V. C. Arnette, of Chadbourn, is president of the Bureau, B. C. Wright, of Tabor City, is vice-president, and Locke Byrd, of Whiteville, secretary-treasurer.

The Farm Bureau has been instrumental in bringing about much legislation favorable to the farmers, and recently in Columbus County is sponsoring a campaign for the growth of a better strain of sweet potatoes. To that end, each member of the Bureau was given seed potatoes of good strain, with the request that they be planted.

The industrial life of Columbus county is closely related to agriculture, its chief enterprise. From the products of its rich, fertile soil, have sprung a number of kindred industries.

Agriculture has long been the mainstay in the economic life of this county, and today nets the farmers of this county millions of dollars.

Columbus county's second biggest industry, however, is the manufacture of lumber, and farmers, contrary to the generally accepted belief, receive more money from the sale of forest products than any other source of revenue, and furnish one of the county's chief sources of livelihood.

The larger lumber manufacturing plants in Columbus county today are: The North Carolina Lumber Co., the J. E. Thompson Lumber Co. and Pierce and Co., all at Hallsboro; Sledge & Sons of Whiteville and Brunswick; Tupelo Dimension Manufacturing Co., at Brunswick; the Elrod Lumber Co., at Fair Bluff; the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co., and The Tabor City Lumber Co., at Tabor City. In addition to these large concerns, there are dozens of smaller mills scattered over the county.

A number of paper companies and outside lumber mills have extensive holdings among the thousands of acres of rich, virgin pine timber which reproduces so bountifully in Columbus county. Riegel Paper Co., of New York, and Southern Kraft Corporation of Georgetown, S. C., both own thousands of acres of untouched forest. Riegel Paper Co. has for years been planning the construction of a pulp mill at Acme, but the plans are being held in abeyance until after the war.

Columbus county is the home of the Council Tool Company, which manufactures all kinds of farm and turpentine tools for shipment here and abroad. The plant, located at Wananish, has built up a reputation for fine products all over the country.

All these industries pale in the shadow of the great agricultural empire which has been responsible for the steady growth and progress of Columbus county during the past quarter of a century.

Some idea of the mammoth proportions to which Columbus county has grown as an agricultural empire in recent years may be found in the report of Charles D. Raper, farm demonstration agent, recently, showing that farmers of this county during the year 1943 had a gross income of approimately $22,000,000. These figures included a large amount of money which Columbus farmers realized from

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the sale of pulpwood.

Tobacco is king in Columbus. Twenty million pounds of the bright golden weed were produced by Columbus farmers in 1943, metting them approximately $8,562,268. Timber products furnished the second crop in Columbus county, with strawberries third, according to C. D. Raper, County Farm Agent.

Strawberry auction markets are at Chadbourn and Tabor City, which each have live and growing bean markets. Both also sell large quantities of sweet potatoes, and Irish potatoes, Buyers and processors of sweet potatoes in the county are: The Chadbourn Potato Storage Co., and Sam C. Carter, of Chadbourn: B. A. Garrell, E. W. Fonvielle, M. C. Sarvis, Corbett Packing Co., I. H. Cribb & Co., all of Tabor City, and Mrs. W. M. Stephens & Sons of Clarendon.

Cotton which once occupied No. 1 position as Columbus county's leading crop, now is running third, and gives birth two seasonable industries.

One of the most ambitious programs ever undertaken in Columbus County has resulted during the past year in bringing in 500 head of midwestern cattle to built up the stock of milk cows. From the drought-stricken areas of Mississippi, and Alabama have come fine, blooded stock, including both Jerseys and Guernseys. This program, sponsored by the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co., in cooperation with business houses of the various towns, and the county extension service, is already producing results, so that Columbus County can now count a total of 4,473 milk cows and a large quantity of beef cattle.

A total of $5,150 was estimated to have been realized by the farmers of this county from livestock alone, last year. The county has two abba‘oirs. The Chadbourn Wholesale Packing Co., and the North Carolina Lumber Co. at Hallsboro has recently erected one in the Honey Hill section of the county.

Assistant County Agent J. P. Quinerly is working in close cooperation with the farmers of the county in an effore to built up a milk market, and not without some very good results. Many farmers are taking advantage of the close proximity of such defense centers as Wilmington and Fayetteville to build up a milk route, and the program is attracting more and more dairymen all the time.

Processing plants for Columbus county's many and varied agricultural products have sprung up during the past few years thick and fast. Cotton gins at Chadbourn, Tabor City and Fair Bluff are to be found.

A flour mill, the Waccamaw Milling Co., has been in operation in Whiteville for the past several years to grind the county's ever-increasing wheat crop.

The Columbus Manufacturing Co., and the D. J. Hughes Company at Chadbourn and Tabor City respectively, are devoted to making crates and cups in which to ship the

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The present emergency demands a large production of pulpwood and lumber. This necessarily has created a heavy drain in our timber resources.

We would like to urge all timberland owners to cut their timber wisely and after the cutting operation is over, to put forth every effort to cooperate with his County Forest Warden in the prevention and suppression of forest fires.

This is more essential now than ever before as some preparation must be made for the growing of additional crops of timber.

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county's strawberries to the Northern markets.

The Acme Manufacturing Co. at Acme, and the Reliance Guano Co. of Whiteville, supply some of the commercial fertilizer used in producing the crops of Columbus county.

Right now a program is in progress for the construction of cooperative canners at seven of the county's high schools, in an attempt to salvage some of the large amount of produce wasted each year for the lack of proper canning and preserving facilities.

Moreover, Columbus county's newest enterprise is the Columbus Cold Storage Co., of Whiteville, which is now in full operation, containing hundreds of freezer lockers where perishables may be kept the year around, and providing an adequate meat curing and storage plant besides.

Columbus county has three ice plants: The Columbus Ice and Fuel Company has plants at Chadbourn and Tabor City, and The Vineland Ice Co., at Whiteville. The Columbus Ice and Fuel Co. at Chadbourn has adequate meat storage facilities, and a number of freezer lockers.

The Chadbourn Chamber of Commerce has been in operation for the past several years, and has been the impetus for many worth-while achievements in the town during that time. E. L. Derrick is president of the organization, F. T. Wooten, Jr., secretary, and the following are directors: D. M. Carter, G. H. Boughner, S. W. Johnson, Foster C. Hughes, B. Gordon Lewis, F. T. Wooten and E. L. Derrick

The Tabor City Chamber of Commerce is a very active organization. S. T. Rogers is president, Lewis E. Gore vice-president, and Mrs. J. P. Brown, secretary and treasurer. Other directors include: B. A. Garrell, R. C. Coleman, and James W. Peay. The oganization has 48 members.

The Whiteville Merchants Association was organized in 1937, and has been growing ever since. There are now 52 members. G. W. Gold is president, H. B. Gurganus, vice-president; J. A. Maultsby, treasurer, and M. B. Kibler, Jr., secretary. Directors are: C. D. Henderson, Lloyd Collier, S. L. Braxton, L. S. Thompson, J. N. Coburn, J. Herman Leder, R. L. Sholar, and J. R. Marks.

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Superintendent of Waterworks: J. M. Hinson

Chief of Police: Robert E. Boswell

Attorney: A. B. Brady

Clerk and Treasurer: Mrs. D. E. Parrish

Attorney: J. K. Powell, Whiteville

Superintendent of Waterworks: H. B. Bruton

Superintendent of Waterworks: J. L. Carnes

Superintendent of Streets: R. B. Sanderson

Chief of Police: W. B. Coleman

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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS—A. W. Williamson, Cerro Gordo; W. L. Hobbs, Delco; Jimsey L. Robinson, Whiteville, Chairman; Leman P. Ward, Clarendon; J. A. Hooks, Whiteville.

BOARD OF EDUCATION—Chairman, R. L. Lamb, Whiteville; Albert Williams. Tabor City; J. T. Wooten, Jr., Chadbourn, I. C. Gore, Jr., Bug Hill: F. B. Gault, Lake Waccamaw.

BOARD OF ELECTIONS—Chairman, A. E. Powell, Jr., Whiteville; James W. Peay, Tabor City; Clarence Thompson, Whiteville.

REPRESENTATIVE—J. Percy Brown, Tabor City.

CLERK SUPERIOR COURT—D. L. Gore, Whiteville.

GAME WARDEN—Deck Hewett, Nakina.

REGISTER OF DEEDS—Leo L. Fisher, Whiteville.

SHERIFF—H. D. Stanley, Whiteville.

AUDITOR—Manley K. Fuller, Whiteville.

FOREST WARDEN—B. Frank Batten, Chadbourn.

TAX COLLECTOR—B. L. Martin, Whiteville.

TAX SUPERVISOR—Venie Harrelson, Cerro Gordo.

RECORDER—W. Ernest Harrelson, Whiteville, RFD 4.

CORONER—H. Hugh Nance, Cerro Gordo (Acting Coroner: Paul Avant, Chadbourn).

SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION—H. D. Browning, Jr., Whiteville.

SOLICITOR—J. W. Brown, Whiteville.

COUNTY ATTORNEY—E. K. Proctor, Whiteville.

SURVEYOR—Forney Gore, Lake Waccamaw.

HEALTH OFFICER—Dr. Floyd Johnson, Whiteville.

FARM DEMONSTRATION AGENT—C. D. Raper, Whiteville.

HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT—Geneveive Eakes, Whiteville.

SUPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE—Mrs. Johnsie R. Nunn, Whiteville.

BOARD OF HEALTH—Arthur W. Williamson, Cerro Gordo; H. D. Browning, Whiteville; Dr. S. A. Smith, Whiteville; J. N. Dawson, M. D., G. S. Cox, M. D., J. B. Bardin, DDS.

BOARD OF WELFARE—Chairman, K. Clyde Council, Wananishl—

BOARD OF WELFARE—Chairman, K. Clyde Council, Wananish, Dr. R. C. Sadler, Whiteville, Mrs. M. A. Waddell, Fair Bluff.

COUNTY DEPOSITORY—Waccamaw Bank & Trust Company, Whiteville.

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Census of Agriculture, 1940

(Data Furnished by U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, Washington, D. C.)

Columbus county, with a population of 45,663, and an area of 939 square miles, has a total of 48.6 inhabitants per square mile. Of the total population, 42,652 are classed by the Bureau of Census as rural, and 3,011 as urban.

Number of Establishments: 36.

Wage Earners (yearly average): 813.

Annual Wages: $363,634.

Cost of Materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy and contract work: $1,179,272.

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