Burlington Graham And Haw River N C Vol 2

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ISBN 13 : 9781332258383
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Directory of Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N. C., 1909-1910, Vol. 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Directory of Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N. C., 1909-1910, Vol. 1: Containing a General and a Classified Business Directory of the Above Places, a Street Guide of Burlington and Graham an Much Useful Miscellaneous Information Burlington is the chief town of Alamance county. It is situated in the center of the county. It is 21 miles east of Greensboro and 50 miles from Raleigh, the State capital; and on the main line of the Southern Railroad from Greensboro to Goldsboro. We have a population of 6,000, with an immediate population of 5, 000 more. It is surrounded by small towns and mill villages as follows: Hopedale, Carolina, Glencoe, Alamance, and Osceola, thriving little towns in which are located large cotton mills employing hundreds of hands, Burlington being the trading center and post office for same. We have an active little city with every part of it throbbing and vibrating with industrial and commercial development. Graded Schools, churches, private schools, newspapers, telegraph and telephone lines, electric lights, railroads, and within a few months, street car lines (the survey has been completed and construction begun), and these keep us in line of modern progress. Ours is mainly an industrial city. We have five large cotton mills with 50,000 spindles and 2,000 looms, employing 2,500 people; we have three knitting mills which employ over 300 people; we have one of the largest overall and shirt factories in the South employing hundreds of skilled workmen; we have a steel bridge plant covering an area of thousands of feet and working hundreds of skilled men; several enormous wood working plants which consume millions of feet of lumber per week; large machine shops and foundries; an extensive plant for the manufacture of coffins and caskets; large roller flouring mills; strong financial institutions; building and loan company; insurance, loan and real estate companies; wholesale stores, and large retail dry goods, clothing, hardware and implement dealers; drug stores, sewing machine and music stores; in full, the departments of commerce are represented fully in our town. The total value of real and personal property in the city of Burlington is about $3,000,000.00. This rate is, for general city purposes, 40 cents on the $100: and 30 cents on the $100 for school purposes. We have a large and excellent electric light plant owned and operated by the city; we have water works and a good fire department, thus giving us efficient fire protection. Our people are a working people and you never see any idle persons, no matter what their financial standing may be. The living expenses in Burlington, as in the whole country, are very low. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.