Early Days of High Point Founding and Growth
The 1859 charter founded High Point with commissioners Lindsay Carter Farlow Denny Piggott. Welch the first store owner and founder inspired rail and plank road links. Growth followed with hotels Barbee and Jarrell, early industries incluiding Willlowbrook and Empire Plaid Mills, churches, schools, and the town’s ascent after Civil War.
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High Point
William Welch
Martha Robbins Tilden
Robert C. Lindsay
James Carter
Sewell Farlow
Eli Denny
Jeremiah Piggott
Thomas Settle Jr
House of Commons
Henry T. Clark
Senate
John W. Lambeth
John Carter
Nathan Hunt
BE. C. Farabee
Zimri Burns
Franklin Erwin
A. B. Smith
Nathan Hunt Jr
Hunt Hotel
Austin Welch
Fayetteville
J. Jasper Welch
J. W. Harriss
Washington and
Streets
Fayetteville Street
Henry Fries
Plank Road
Mr. Welch
North Carolina Central Railroad
Fayetteville and Western Plank Road
Welch-Stanton
Solomon Kendall
North Main Street
Main Street
Washington Street
Cherry Street
Elizabeth Pickett Welch
Guiford
Greensee
Wyattop Bowman
J. Church
James Dickson
A. F. Fisher
Henderson and Co
M. Jarrell
Noah Jarrell
Lindsay and Campbell
Mendenhall and Son
Seaborn Perry
John ©. Rankin
Bloomfield
Thomasville
Jamestown
Anderson Lamb
Lamb
Deep River
Salem
Barbee
Samuel Piggott
Pickett
Piggott
William Barbee
Clara
Penney Barbee
J. 8. Welborn
George Leach
Bellevue
North Main and
English Streets
Fisher
New Bern
Elisea Fisher Rogers
Stoneman
Iway
Carolina
M. J. Wrenn
High Point College
Langdon
Elizabeth Lindsay Jones
Aurelia Bowman
Wyatt Bowman
James Gray
Bowman Gray
Winston-Salem
Mollie Bowman Smith
Lindsay
Jarrell
Manliff Jarrell
Seborn Perry
Gov. Worth
Gov. Vance
Tom Thumb
P. H. Dalton
First Presbyterian Church
English Street
A. J. Sapp
Oakwood Cemetery
Daughters of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Barbee Hotel
James K. Polk
Braxton Craven
BE. H. Davis
John W. Jones
John
Joe Sechrest
Wiley Sechrest
R. J. Bell
J. H. Earnhardt
John W. Moore
Peter Doub
T. B. James
T. L. Triplett
A. E. Tate
Theodore B. Lyman
Joshua Remfrey
H. C. Pitts
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
James Parker
Boston
Alfredh. Stoubbs
Ragan and Millis
W. H. Ragan
J. H. Millis
North Carolina
W. P. Pickett and Company
Causey
Willowbrook
O. 8. Causey
Empire Plaid Mille
W. H. Snow
Vermont
Captain Snow
Bertha Snow Cox
Santa Claus
Orpheum Theater
The
Pioneer
D. Steele
Charlie Wilson
Frank Baldwin
Enterprise
Main and
Broad Streets
William A. Blair
William Richardson
F. D. Steele
Mr. Steele
Parachute Service Opens At United Airport
Parachute repair overhaul packing rentals start at United Airport Los Angeles. Two enterprising young men inaugurate the service and plan engine repairs plane storage and student training as side lines.
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Los Angeles
United Airport
Navy plans broader shipbuilding push in unemployment bill
Washington April 1 Proponents push a 200 million shipbuilding inclusion in the Roosevelt unemployment program. Vinson says Swanson and leaders back the move and will seek Roosevelt’s guidance on what ships to build. Swanson supports fleet growth to London treaty limits amid aging destroyers carriers cruisers and subs.
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Washington
Swanson
Vinson
House Naval Committee
Rainey
Burns
Tennessee
Roosevelt
Naval Building
Navy
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
Weather Map Aids Airway Safety Nationwide
The Weather Bureau unveils a master weather map to improve safety for air travel. A telegraph typewriter system transmits latest conditions to numerous air ports across the country every four hours, with maps prepared in Cleveland Kansas City and Oakland for their sections.
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Bureau
A_ telegraph
Cleveland
Kansas City
Oakland
Yarmouth Exports Majority of Herring to Europe
Yarmouth England ships over 86 percent of the annual one billion herring landed there to European markets.
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Yarmouth
Eng
Europe
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C. H. Robertson
Hillsboro
Tory
Wrenn
J. H. Tate
High Point Furniture Company
Parachute Service
Bug Auction
Ernoon
Furni
Ture
Kester Furniture
H. K. Buchanan