# Eastern North Carolina Encyclopedia/Wayne County

WAYNE COUNTY
With Favorable Climatic Conditions and an Unsurpassed System of Good Roads, It is One of the State's Leading Agricultural Counties
Wayne County is one of North Carolina's leading agricultural counties. It has an area of 554 square miles, or 354,560 acres of fertile soil, producing cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat, potatoes, vegetables and truck of every variety. Wayne County is also noted for its splendid orchards and vineyards. It is also noted for its wonderful pasture lands, making live stock and poultry raising profitable.
Wayne County produces annually 30,000 to 35,000 bales of cotton, 12,000,000 to 21,000,000 pounds of tobacco, tons of corn, hay, peas and other stock food and an abundance of other food products.
Wayne County's soil is especially adapted to the growing of potatoes, strawberries, dewberries, asparagus, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, watermelons and cantaloupes and it ships hundreds of cars of these commodities annually to the northern and western markets. Our varied soil and climatic conditions make it possible to produce and harvest one or more food products every month in the year. The season never becomes so cold that the farmers cannot bring fresh vegetables to the markets three hundred and sixty-five days of the year. Wayne County is rapidly developing the live stock, poultry and dairy industries. No section of the United States offers a better inducement to the above named industries than does Wayne County.
In addition to the above advantages Wayne County offers a system of hard surface and sand clay roads of which Goldsboro is the hub, that cannot be surpassed. We also maintain over one hundred public schools located in all sections of the county. These are in addition to the incorporated city schools.
We would like to furnish, upon request, to any inquirer a detailed descriptive book of Wayne County, including a complete government soil map, outlining the many advantages which space will not permit us to set forth here. Write the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce, Wayne County, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
GOLDSBORO
Gate City of Eastern North Carolina from Entire West
Goldsboro is the leading manufacturing city of Eastern North Carolina and is nationally known for its rapid progress in population and wealth.
Goldsboro in 1900 had a population of 4,000 with a tax valuation of $6,000,000.
In 1910 it had a population of 6,500 with a tax valuation of $10,000,000.
In 1920 it had a population of 12,000 with a tax valuation of $16,000,000.
In 1923, according to a police census, Goldsboro had a population of 14,500 people with ​taxable property valued at approximately $20,000,000.
Goldsboro is recognized as the industrial city of the eastern section. Its principal manufactured products are brick, veneer, cotton yarn, hosiery and lumber. Goldsboro has four brick manufacturing plants with a capacity of 70,000,000 brick annually. It has two of the largest veneer plants in the South, shipping from 150 to 250 solid cars weekly. Its varied manufactured products demonstrate its facilities for industrial development.
Goldsboro is located on three trunk line railroads, namely, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Norfolk and Southern and the Southern Railway companies. The railroad facilities make it possible to serve eighty per cent of the entire State of North Carolina over a one line haul. Another splendid advantage that Goldsboro offers to new manufacturers is its power. It is served by the Carolina Light and Power Company with hydroelectric power and its present industries are a fair example of the reasonable rates. Ninety per cent of our industrial plants operate with hydroelectric power.
Goldsboro is the county seat of Wayne County, which is one of the leading agricultural counties of the State. Prospective manufacturers will not make a mistake in investigating the possibilities of Goldsboro.
Information regarding factory sites, taxes, insurance rates, power rates and railroad facilities will be furnished with the above information in detail by the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce upon request.
Inducements to Home-Seekers
Goldsboro is recognized as one of the most beautiful little cities in Eastern North Carolina, having a population of 14,500 people whose first desire is to make their city a good place to live in and it offers the following advantages:g
1 Fourteen churches for whites, representing all of the leading denominations and under the guidance of the highest type men and women with high spiritual ideals.
2 Goldsboro has eleven public schools, maintained entirely by the city. These buildings are all modern and equipped with the latest devices for training children. These schools maintain a faculty of seventy-five instructors, teaching and training daily 3,300 children.
3 The city of Goldsboro, realizing that the child needs physical training as well as mental training, maintains well equipped parks and playgrounds, physical directors, a Boy Scout instructor, a Girl Scout instructor, and a Community Service building equipped with a gymnasium, reading room, convention hall, auditorium and all other features required of a building of this kind. This community building was erected and is maintained for the sole purpose of developing and bringing the children up in a way to become useful and progressive citizens.
4 Goldsboro maintains a Public Health and Sanitation Bureau with a corps of competent doctors and nurses who devote their time to health and sanitary conditions. Goldsboro has representative posts of all of the popular fraternal organizations, a Rotary and a Kiwanis Club, and a well organized Womans' Club with over four hundred active workers devoting their time to civic development; a Chamber of Commerce composed of all of the business and industrial man-power of the city devoting their ​entire time to the commercial, industrial and social growth of Goldsboro.
Goldsboro is the home of the State Odd Fellows Orphanage with one hundred and fifty orphans who are recognized as a part of our city and are given the same consideration by our citizens.
If you are thinking of seeking a new location, at your request we will furnish you with detailed information regarding all of the above suggestions including climatic conditions, living conditions, i. e., apartments, cottages, furnished rooms, etc.
Goldsboro is located in the trucking and agricultural center of this section which makes farm produce plentiful at reasonable prices. Write the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce for a descriptive and illustrated booklet which will give you in detail the advantages that the city has to offer.
Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce
Goldsboro, N. C.