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>' ' ■'"— ... WATCH EDENTON GROW! Mother Town of North Carolina Capital of the Albemarle /Volume V. Edenton Offers Many Opportunities r••«• • - <3 111 1 " ■ All Modern Conveniences Offered To Both Industries And Prospective Residents Splendid Location; Tax Rate Low; Congenial Citizenship HISTORIC TOWN Trade Center For Thir teen Rich Eastern Counties Strongly proclaiming itself propor tionately the equal, if not the peer, financially and commercially, of any trade center of the Albemarle, and with its healthful climate, a happy, progressive and prosperous populace, Edenton has, as a municipal govern ment, been doing business under one name or another for nearly th'ee centuries. Eyom the outset, Edenton was planned as the metropolis of the Albemarle, and today it remains solid on that path, and while it was the actual trade , center for many years, its actual growth and development, industrially and commercially, dates back not much more than a genera tion. It would be futile to attempt, to enumerate the opportunities and ad vantages outside capital, backed by men of experience and determination, would have here in Edenton and Chowan County. Several lines of in dustry stand out most prominent, namely) the manufacture of lumber and wood products, textiles, manu facture of food products, processing plants for soy beans, cotton seed and other agricultural products, veneer plants, as well as practically every other line of manufacture. 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No. 2—New Armory building which houses Company P, No. 3—Residential scene. Lower center—the historic Cupola House, built in 1758 by Francis Corbin, and reputed to be the oldest .x * f . ." ißU:iv -K- •. . . .&. . -.'•i.r^^S - THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY where living conditions are as good, and in most instances far above the average. Today Edenton is a modern medium size town, with all improvements of a modern city, with conveniences and services, with modem business houses of various kinds, industrial plants whose payrolls run Into'thousands of dollars annually, a strong financial institution, amusements, school facili ties, religious organizations—a busi ness town as good as any. Today practically all the basic raw materials of this rich section are be ing put through manufacturing pro cesses by a locally-owned and operat- lilßlM—> 1 111 i '■■">Hiiiumpiii|pppiiiniiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiM uw HI mL f'Uk Bjg r^wi ... The above picture was made one block from the Municipal dock, looking north and showing the prin cipal retail section of Edenton. On the extreme left is the Bank of Edenton building. Edenton, North Carolina <*> ed cotton mill, lumber and peanut factories. The total values of these products, approximately, amount to $5,000,000.00 annually, a . showing not equalled by any town in the State within a radius of over 75 miles. Edenton owns and operates a com plete system of public utilities on which it earns over $21,000 annually, an amount sufficient to retire its en tire bonded debt of only $49,000 with in less than two and one-half years. Edenton is living well within its income from its low taxes and low valuation, the tax rate being only SI.OO per SIOO valuation, and the town expects to be bond and debt free by 1945. With the cost of gov ernment around $30,000 a year, and the utilities taking care of over two thirds of this, one can see that taxa tion is not a future worry, nor do Edenton citizens and its industrial plants expect taxes to become bur densome. With the opening of the ~ iSffdSe across Albemarle Sound it will bring within economical reach by both rail and highway a rich section from which trade and commerce will begin (Continued on Page Two) CIVIC LEADER -- . J I. w ■■■ * v- J. H. McMULLAN Mayor of Edenton and Secre tary of the Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce. - I : j*. . , One Os Most Progressive And Fastest Growing Cities In Albemarle Area Os State DO YOU KNOW... —that Edenton is seventeen feet above sea level and is the high est point between Norfolk, Va., and the trade center of 13 rich co-nties of northeastern North Carolina? —that Edenton and county envir ons have a total population of more than 12,000 people, with but a small percentage on relief or Federal public works pay rolls? —that in Edenton there are fifteen manufacturing industries with an output of finished or process commodities and merchandise with a value of more than $5,000,000 annually? —that Edenton’s water commerce conservatively estimated will to tal approximately $7,000,000 an nually, and it’s still growing? —that shad and herring fishing landed at Edenton amounts to about 800,000 pounds per year? —that Edenton has every transpor tation facility, except via air, which includes rail, water and bus north, east, south and west? —that Edenton owns its electric | light and electric industrial power system, water works sys tem, and that practically all of its principal streets, especially , residential, and all business sec tion streets are paved and practically paid for, owing only $49,000, and has never defaulted on a payment of its bonds or interest on same? —that Edenton is the largest pea nut market in North Carolina and the second largest in the world ? —that thousands of tourists visit the historical spots and visit Edenton each year? Progress and Prosperity Edition Single Copies—loc Ideally Located in Cen ter of Rich Agricul tural Section i BIG OUTPUT ■ i Variety of Products Re sponsible for Steady j Growth i By J. H. McMULLAN The location of Edenton on the Albemarle Sound at the confluence of the Chowan, Roanoke and Cashie rivers was in no wise an accident. For those colorful and resourceful Colonial pioneers who came to Amer ica to found a new world had good reason to believe this the ideal spot 1 for the location of the Capital and trade center of the Empire which they were founding. In the year of 1658 when that location which since 1772 has been known as the city of Edenton was selected, water trans portation was the only avenue of commerce available to the people of that day. The hazards of nature and the risk of savage depredations were sufficient to insure the location of all settlements at accessible points on the inland waters of the Province. So, thanks to water transportation, Edenton naturally became the Capi tal, a commercial and social center of the Province of Carolina. Not until the savage had been con quered and the back country made safe for habitation and husbandry, did the course of the Empire pene trate the interior, „ As this movement progressed and j the Colony expanded, other cities , arose to challenge the commercial "' (Continued on Page Two)
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