INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT OF
CABARRUS COUNTY
Part of the down-town business section of Concord, county seat of Cabarrus County. (All photos in this section
taken by Zack L. Roberts of the Concord "Tribune.”)
VOLUMES could be written in
order to cover adequately the two
centuries of agricultural history
or the more than half a century of
industrial expansion of Caharrti»
County, which is located in the South
Piedmont area of North Carolina.
Therefore the best that can be done
within the scope of a brief article is
to stress the highlights.
Nearly triangular in shape, Cabar¬
rus County has an area of 36S square
miles, or 235,520 acres, and a popula¬
tion, according to the census of 1940
of 59,393. It is divided into twelve
townships, all designated by numbers,
Number Twelve embracing only the
county seat, Concord. The average ele¬
vation above sea level ranges from 56S
to 710 feet, the average rainfall is
about 48 inches per year, and the
By MARY I RIX KIDD
(Staff Writer for the Concord
"Daily Tribune.”)
mean temperature is 09 degrees for a
growing season of 218 days.
Resides the county sent, there are
two other towns, Kannapolis, the
largest unincorporated town in the
world and home of the largest towel
mills in the world, and Mt. Pleasant,
formerly home of two Lutheran col¬
leges. Midland, in the southern por¬
tion, is fast assuming the proportions
of a town, also.
Concord, which on December 8,
1937, celebrated its 100th anniversary
as an incorporated town, was recently
cited as one of the best governed mu¬
nicipalities of its size in the entire
nation. At the helm as mayor for the
past fifteen years has been W. A. Wil¬
kinson. The Board of Aldermen is
composed of A. R. Howard, F. M.
Youngblood, J. G. McCachern, S. •!.
Sherrill, H. G. Black welder, and
С.
V.
Krider. Walter D. Brown is clerk-
treasurer and attorney and Eugene D.
Caldwell tax collector. J. W. Jessup is
new chief of police and John L. Miller
veteran fire chief.
Through efficient management, both
the city and county remain in excel¬
lent financial condition with an ex¬
ceptionally low tax rate — 90 cents for
the city and 66 cents for the county on
the 8100.00 properly valuation. The
city purchased the water system from
P. B. Fetzer in 1900 and the electric
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