WHAT INDUSTRY HAS DONE IN THE
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF
RICHMOND COUNTY
HIS uv.k MV want
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call your
I attention to Riehmon»i County.
B down in tin . lib-central part of
the state. We don’t know of anyone
who can tell you more about Rich¬
mond’' iudii'trinl and agricultural
progress than Isaac S. London, edi¬
tor of the in Rocking¬
ham. We asked Ike a short time ago
to prepare II- some data along this
line. With his customary courtesy and
good nature he did so. and hero’s
what he wrote:
Richmond County ranks 3Sth in
size in North Carolina, with 521
square mile* and 3113,440 acres.
In 177!' the county was authorized
to lx- cut
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If of that part of Alison
lying east of the IVe Dee River. It
was named in honor of Charles Len¬
nox, I 'like of Richmond. The General
Assembly of 17S1 named seven com¬
missioners to fix upon a site for a
county seat for the young county, and
they chose what is now Rockingham
and the streets were officially laid oil
ns of April 1, 1785.
In 178(1 the county population was
listed at 11,585. In I860 it waa
11,00»,
in 1MH1 it was 25.948 hut this was
lower» *d to 15,855 in
191'»
by the lop¬
ping oil of a large section into the
creation of a new county (Scotland).
And now in 1940 the otheial popula-
ti«n wa. ::«,M0 — 1 make,
18,412 females (and 24,490 whites,
12,224 Negroes, and 48 foreign-born).
The fourth annual session of tlm
Ilflplist State Convention was held at
Dockery's Meeting House November
1-0. 1833, and that convention direct¬
ed Dr. Samuel Wait to gather funds
and open the new Wake Forest Insti¬
tute in 1S34.
Since 186$ there have liecn 16 sher¬
iffs, and nine Clerks of Court.
At the present time, in 1943, the
county has a woman
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Register of
I lewis (Mrs, Agnes Flake) and a
woman as County Auditor (Miss
Mary Thomas Covington).
The Chairman of the Board of
Commissioners is Dr. G. C. Caddell.
and the other four members are John
C. Matbeson, Paul Brown, James
Hamer and Arthur Capcl. They have
managed the county wisely, as is
shown by the low county-wide tax-
rate of only 90 cents. The total bonded
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I N G H A M
THE COUNTY-SEAT OF RICHMOND COUNTY
A Heorty Welcome awaits the new-comcr. Every courtesy and assistance
accorded the would-be resident. We invite you to come.
ROCKINGHAM offers paved si reel.*, all modern improvements, two large hotels, throe drug stores,
thi.-e excellent theatres, garage-. four Churches, Southern Bril and Western Union facilities. Bakery,
l-iiimln. Bank. Building and U>an Association, two railroads, and the North-South, East-West paved
highway- intersect here.
TIIK TOWN owns it- own watrr-system. of high analysis: there i- no more uniform, temperate climate
than here.
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system of schools on the Accredited lists. Situated on a high plateau, the town i- free
of malaria, and marvelously healthy.
ADJACF.NT to the Town is the Rockingham-Hanilet Airport of 28 acres, and the Rockingham Country
('.lull Midi 9 holes for golf. Also nearby is the Carolina Country Club, overlooking l>enuteou*
Kvrirlt I ,ak»*. Many ponds filled with fish. Tourists homes in town shady streets, a home
atmosphere and an inviting setting for work, rest or play.
Address inquiries to
Moyor M. C. McLeod or Town Clerk Zebulon Gibson
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