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Goldsboro Building a Thriving Railroad Center and Lumber Hub
Goldsboro emerges as a vigorous railroad town with 1848 layout setting. It hosts numerous enterprises including Carolina Rice Milling, Argus Knitting Mills, Wayne Agricultural Works, Royall & Borden, Goldsboro Lumber Co, and Empire brick mills. The Enterprise Lumber Company leads with 75,000 capital and 75 workers, while Neuse and Goldsboro Lumber firms move vast pine products north.
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Goldsboro
Waynesborough
Neuse
Goldsborough
Maryland
Arnold Borden
Galfsboro Water Company
Frederick R. Dudley
J. E. Lopes
H P
Carolina Rice Milling Company
Capital
E. B. Borden, Sr
Norwood Giles
Argus Knitting Mills
W.T. Yelverton
C. N. Edgerton
Wayne Agricultural Works
W. H. Smith
E. B. Borden, Jr
Goldsboro Lumber Co
N. C
W. A. Winsett
J. J. Street
T. B. Hyman
Goldsboro Ice Co
H. Weill Bro
Mr. Webster
Little River
North Carolina
Mattre On
Enterprise Lumber Co
N.C
N. O’berry
Thos. Edmundson
Goldsboro Marble Works
D. A. Grantham
Goldsboro Brick and Tile Works
Goldsboro Oil Mills
KE. B. Borden
F. K. Borden
John Slaughter
Goldsboro Pottery Works
I. L. Grant
W.T. Miburne
Goldsboro Steam Dye Works
Kings& Waters
Robert Portner’s Brewing Co
R. Portner
A. Stoneman
Urer
F. W. Hilker
Cogdell & Barnes
New Lumber Co
Sauls
L. U. Humphrey
Goldsboro Electric Light Co
TF Dortch
PL Dortch
W.H. Griffin
Moore & Robinson
Guts, Dte
Dewey Bros
W. H. Borden
Jnc
T. H. Bain
Goldsboro Lumber Company
Vermont
Ohio
Lenoir
Cray
Jones
Johnston
Comp
Dover
A. N.C
W. A. Wimsatt
Jolson