Excerpt from Greensboro, N. C: Including Proximity, Revolution Mills and White Oak Mills; Directory, 1912-13
The first attempt at colonization was made in 1545 by the illustrious Sir Walter Raleigh.
North Carolina was foremost to resist British tyranny. First pitched battle fought at Alamance May 12,1771.Declaration of Independence signed at Mecklenburg, 1776. North Carolina lost 35,124 soldiers during the Civil War, having furnished more and lost a greater number of soldiers than any other Southern State (number from North Carolina, 125,000).
The population is of a singularly homogeneous character, being Virgin: ans, mainly English, Pennsylvanians, mainly Scotch-Irish and German; Scotch-Irish, Scotch Highlanders and Lowlanders, Swiss and French Huguenots. Population, nearly 2,000,000.
North Carolina's position is nearly between the parallels 34 degrees and 361/2 degrees north latitude, and between the meridians 751/2 degrees and 841/2 degrees west longitude. Extreme length, 5031/4 miles; extreme breadth, 1871/2 miles; average breadth, 100 miles; area, 52,286 square miles, of which 48,666 is land and 3,620 is water.
Mt. Mitchell, 6,711 feet high, is the highest peak of the Blue Ridge range. Forty-three peaks exceed 6,000 feet in height; eighty-two peaks exceed 5,000 feet in height. The mountain region embraces 6,000 square miles. The mountains are covered with deep rich soil and clothed with massive forests to their tops. The walnuts, poplars and oaks attain a size that would hardly be credited by one who had not seen them.
All kinds of fruit attain a high state of perfection and all fruits, vegetables and grains are remarkably productive.
Average mean temperature, 59.6 from 1882 to 1897. Average snowfall for same period, 11 inches annually. Precipitation, 50.6. Wetest year on record, 1877; dryest year on record, 1897.
North Carolina is rapidly developing in all kinds of trucking and fruit growing. At the recent national apple show at Spokane, Wash., North Carolina took first prize for the finest apples exhibited.
Largest tannery extract plant, United States Leather Company, Old Fort.
Largest wood fibre plant, Champion Fibre Company, Canton. N.C.
Largest denim mills, White Oak Mill, Greensboro.
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