The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

new Kinston has been born in the last
few years, and it's babyhood has been SO
short that it is wearing a robust man
hood thrown about it as by the wand OF
fairy.
But it was no fairy's wand that set
Kinston so we'll forward on the road to
brilliant success and prosperity and it Is
not mere matter of happen so that to-
day it can say "Come, see what we nave
done. see how firm is our foundation
Come and Join hands with US, you capital
lists and home seekers, for we have much
to offer you, and coming to us you can be
c,a.s one with us. and become sharers
in and partakers Of the great prosperity
that is ours Come to us if YOU would
add to your share OF the goods OF this
world. come to us if you seek a place
where advantage after advantage Is or
fered. and where a brighter future glows
with radiant beams upon bright past
and a shining present.
WHAT MADE KINSTON.
What has made Kinston what 1t is has
no secret to it. 1t has been the energy
and pluck Of it's people, aided by the
great naturssH resources of section
teeming wlUs opportunities for labor and
capital but no place for those who
would sit. idly by and dream of success.
Men of action live in Kinston. men who
have accumulated and grown rich be-
cause they seized the opportunity, and
men of action are but to come to be
welcomed to still greater opportunities
for success which are being presented as
the days come and go.
1t is goodly heritage which has come
to these brave and self-reliant people of
Kinston, and those who first settled about
this section must have seen with pro-
phetic eye the vast chances for posterity
that lay in the future, that future which
has become the successful present and
which is driving forward to a still more
brilliant success in another and grand
er future.
Seeing what time mas brought it is
singular to note that it was a Heritage
who first located where Kinston now
stands. This was William Heritage, who
with his German wife, Susannah Franks,
came up the Neuse from New Bern and
settled on Atkins Bank, an ideal loca-
tion which proved a magnet to the able
jurist and planter.
This was perhaps about 1745, and there
followed him many families as the years
grew by; In 1850 came Richard Caswell,
whose name means history, and about
Heritage and Caswell the little COM
munity grew stronger and stronger, till
in 1862 the town of Kingston, on William
Heritage's lands, in Dobbs county was
established by the Legislature, one hun
dred acres to be laid off in town lots and
fifty acres reserved for a town common,
it being stated in the act that the place
was "commodious for trade and COM
merce" and that its establishment would
greatly promote the trade of the said
(Neuse) river That this has been the
case the history of Kinston truly shows.
IN THE BEGINNING.
With half an acre to each lot. the town
was first laid off and in 1850 the demand
was such for other lots that part of the
town common was utilized for this pur-
nose and in 1856 other portions of it were
laid off into lots, the sale of these being
legalized in 1859, and good and suffi-
cient titles in fee simple were made to
each purchaser.
1t was not until 1871 that Kfinston be-
came full f1edged county seat, and this
was of the new county of Ienoir The
first act incorporating Kinston, so far as
known, was passed in 1920 Again in
1S49 the place was incorpor ated, but old
citizens say that the first town govern