Hill's Durham (Durham County, N. C.) City Directory, 1952, Vol. 39
Author: Hill Directory Company
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-09-11
Total Pages: 1046
ISBN-13: 9781396163081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Hill's Durham (Durham County, N. C.) City Directory, 1952, Vol. 39: Including Bragtown, Hope Valley, Joyland, Rockwood, Rollingwood, Sherron Acres, Tuscaloosa Forest Tobacco Market: The tobacco market in Durham sold in the 1945 season, pounds for 18, 243, 434. 94; 1946 season, 50, 937, 288 pounds for 07; 1947 season, pounds for 21, 329, 568. 07; 1948 season, pounds for 22, 466, 317. 40; 1949 season, 37, 023, 456 pounds for 17, 949, 631. 94, 1950 season, 43, 661, 544 pounds for 24, 245, 803. 10; 1951 season, pounds for 25, 86. Transportation: Durham has five lines of railroad, radiating in seven directions. It has two lines of the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Norfolk Western Railway the Durham Southern Railway, _and the Norfolk Southern Railroad. These rail roads afford unusually good freight facilities. Durham is on the National Highway and the Central Highway, the principal routes between the North and South and between the East and West. Excellent bus service is maintained between Durham and Raleigh, Wake Forest, Henderson, Oxford, Roxboro, Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro, Siler City and Danville. 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.