Concord has every right to be proud of its fine business buildings. Here is a partial view along the main
down-town thoroughfare.
Concord Keeps On Growing
Remarkable as has been its progress in the
past. Concord continues to move forward
at a rapid pace, and its future growth and
progress are definitely assured.
MORE than a score of years
ago, a native Louisianan
said of Concord, his adopted
city, "You’ll like Concord,” and
those three words have become the
accepted slogan of a community
that is so pleasant to live in and
so neighborly and friendly that
many come to it and few leave it
permanently without reluctance.
Ideally located in the heart of
Piedmont Carolina, Concord,
county seat of Cabarrus County,
is 703 feet j.bove sea level, is situ¬
ated on a double-track main line
of the Southern Railway. 359 miles
south of Washington and 289 miles
north of Atlanta, is not near enough
to a large river to be endangered
by floods, and is remarkably free
from disastrous storms. The United
States census of 1940 listed the
population at 15,553, but the popu¬
lation of Greater Concord, includ¬
ing suburban industrial communi¬
ties is estimated now at 26,656,
with an exceedingly high pcrcent-
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By MARY FR1X KIDD
whose ancestors have lived in this
country several generations.
It is easy to reach Concord, for
in addition to the railroad there
is an extensive system of fine,
hard-surfaced highways that radi¬
ate in all directions like spokes in
a wheel, linking the Cabarrus
metropolis with our other leading
cities of Carolina. Over these high¬
ways traverse buses of the Carolina
Coach Company, the Pan-American
Bus Lines, the Piedmont Coach
Company, and several interstate
motor transport lines. There are
several privately owned airports
and construction will be started as
soon as possible on a large city-
county airport.
The county seat is practically
the geographic center of a county
that was cut off from Mecklenburg
in 1792 and named for Stephen
Cabarrus. In 1944, the county had
an estimated population of 67,155,
living on 360 square miles. Con¬
cord is the trading center for peo¬
ple living on 1,843 farms averaging
100 acres each, and producing an
average gross income of $2,574,-
650.00, derived principally from
cotton, com, wheat, livestock and
dairy products, lespedeza and other
hay crops, and poultry products
as well as from a number of miscel¬
laneous sources.
Founded in 1793, and named
Concord because the Scotch-Irish
settlers of the west and the Ger-
man-Dutch-Swiss of the east had
reached agreement in a dispute
over the location of the county
seat by locating it midway be¬
tween the sites advocated by the
two factions.
During 1887 the late James W.
Cannon organized the mill that
is today operating as Plant No.
THE STATE, October II. 1947
