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Kinston ... Heart of Eastern Carolina By Charles L. McCullers, Mgr. Kinston Chamber of Commerce Kinston. “The World’s Foremost Tobacco Center.” Was established on the banks of the Neuae River as a trading post for planters in 1740, and by virtue of its location in the center of the Eastern half of North Carolina, it was destined to become the world’s second larg est bright leaf tobacco market and widely known as “The World’s Foremost Tobacco Center,” proof of which is provided by statistics of tobacco growth and production in a fifty mile radius of the pres ent day metropolis. The found of “Kingston,” as the town was originally named, was William Heritage, a well-to-do and highly respected planter and jurist, who was one of the section’s out standing citizens and business leaders. About 1750 Richard Caswell, a native of Maryland, chose "Kings ton” as his home, and as history records, he later became the first Governor of North Carolina under the constitution. The establishment of the town was authorized by Royal Governor Arthur Dobbs in 1762 and shortly after the Ameri can Revolution, the obnoxious “g” was dropped, and the name became “K'nston. Kinston was incorpor ated in 1849, and is the county seat of Lenoir County, one of the mast widely diversified agricultural counties in North Carolina, form ing a choice part of the fertile North Coastal Plain of the state. While Kinston’s chief industry is the produc^m and processing of flue-cured tobacco, it is by no means without its diversification as a city of commerce and industry. Within its bounds are: the state’s only federally inspected meatpack ing plant, a large textile plant, and several needleworking industries, in addition to corrugated box man ufacturing, lumber manufacturing, dairy products, and food process ing enterprises. Its 320 retail stores constitute Eastern North Ca rolina’s fastest growing retail trade center. Kinston also enjoys a rep utation of being the largest dis tribution point of wholesale groc eries in Eastern Carolina. The tobacco industry in Kinston had its inception in 1895 when the first tobacco auction warehouse was constructed and put into op eration by Jesse W. Grainger, a prominent tobacco grower. The to bacco warehousing industry has enjoyed a gradual and steady growth during the last half cen tury and its 14 mammouth tobacco warehouses today embrace a total floor space area of 35 square acres. During the last ten years, the familiar chant of the tobacco auc tioneer in Kinston has resulted in the sale of more than 500 million pounds of the nation’s finest to bacco to all of the major process ing and manufacturing companies throughout the World. In 1949, during the 56-day sales season (August through October), the Oren Biggers Produce Co., Inc. Wholesale FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND EGGS 409 Moreheod Avenue GREENSBORO, N. C. Kirston Tobacco Market told more than 60,000,000 pounds of flue cured leaf for an average price of almost 504 per pound, with antici pated sales for the current season far in excess of the 1949 figure. During the Fall season, Kinston's 7 stemming and redrying plants employ more than 3,000 persons who prepare the golden weed for shipment and sale to foreign and domestic manufacturers and pro cessors. The combined processing i plants are capable of redrying and packing over two million pounds of tobacco daily. Tobacco, from its microscopic seed planted in January in the tra ditional cloth-covered bed, is trans planted by hand and machine to the fertile fields in rows approx imately three feet wide, with “hills" of tobacco being set 18 inches apart, experiences a rapid growth through the months of May, June, and July. It is then “prim ed,” or cropped, by manual labor for “handing,” “tying,” and “stick ing.” to be placed in the curing barns where intense heat converts the yellowing green leaves to the golden flue-cured leaf which is destined for human consumption in cigarettes, cigars, smoking tobacco, and snuff. Some of its by-products include insecticides and disinfect ants also. Kinston’s accessibility is ade quate by virtue of its five main highways, two railroads, and semi-navigable waters of the fa mous Neuse River which flows through and by the city limits. Kinston is served by five modern bus lines also and owns jointly with the county of Lenoir a Class IV Airport which is fully equipped to accommodate all types of flying craft. Kinston’s schools and its recre ational and medical facilities equal or excell such facilities found any where in the South. It has ample modern parks, playgrounds, schools, and churches for its 18,278 I inhabitants, which are 99% native born with approximately 55% white and 45% Negro. Historically, Kinston enjoys a reputation of almost 200 years of cultural background. It has pro duced many of the nation’s prom inent citizens whose ancestry dates back into the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries. Famouns battles durig the Civil War were fought in Kinston, among which was the Battle of Kinston which Generals Bragg, Holt, and Hill, of Confed erate Fame, directed their forces against the Federal*. Kinston is also the site of the famous Ram Neuse, Confederate iron-clad boat, armed with historic cannon and other implements of war which were used in its brief period of existence. The hull of the old Ram Neuse still lies on the sandy bottom of the Neuse River within the city limits of Kinston, a few hundred feet from the site of its launching in 1865. Kinston today enjoys a mild healthful climate, with an average annual rainfall of 44 inches and an average mean temperature of 9 Compliments NEW METHOD LAUNDRY Dial 8864 862-64-66 South Elm St. Greensboro, N. C. — I 62.4’. Kinston owns its municipal power plant which represents a financial outlay in excess of four mil1 ion dollars, and likewise op erates its municipal water plant, consisting of four artesian wells which produce chemically pure pater that .is neither filtered nor treated and is produced *ln suf ficient quantities to serve - the needs of a city twice its present size. Its 54 miles of paved streets and more than 6,000 privately owned residences are adorned .with beautiful oak trees. It is consid ered one of the cleanest and most beautiful small cities on the East ern seaboard. Kinston is served by one daily newspaper and one weekly, county, newspaper. The civic and social life of Kins ton is unsurpassed in Eastern North Carolina and provides its citizens with practically all nation al and international civic and social clubs and societies for recreation and fellowship. Its country club and public playgrounds play an important part in the health, comfort and convenience of its citizens. Truly, the village of “Kingston” of 1840, with its loyal band of rural farmers, has today become a city of culture and re finement which is the pride and joy of all who live within its gates and the visitor who comes our way. The Kinston Chamber of com merce, comprising more than 600 of the community’s aggressive and prosperous business and civic lead ers, was organized in 1911, and through its membership, has been a dynamic force in the develop ment and expansion of Kinston and Lenoir County since its beginning. Its vital leadership has been a strong contributing factor to the development of every major pro ject and activity within the city and county throughout the years, and the organization’s growth is commensurate with its worthwhile accomplishments. The annual op erating budget is now in excess of one dollar per capia of the city’s population. The Chamber of Com merce invites the tourist ,the vis itor, the homeseeker and the in dustrialist to join hands with Kinston’s happy citizens in casting their lot for fuller and richer lives. GET THIS BOOK ON BOWLING <ON THE CUFF New York. — Glass Bottle Blowers Association (AFL) is giving away a 20-psge record book for bowlers. In addition to space for recording 120 games, It contains information for begin ners, and a page of accurately de fined bowling terms. A free copy of the book can be obtained by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the association, 12 South 12th Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. 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