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Excerpt from One Plus One Equals One: A History of Christ United Methodist Church It is the year 1900: High Point is regarded as an exceedingly busy and industrious town, and its development one of the most remarkable anywhere. Thirty years ago it was a little place, as dead industrially as a town could be, having dried fruit as its principal product. Now High Point is a great example of industrial work manship. Using its own natural resources, it manufactures hosiery and wood products. The railroad encourages marketing, as do traveling salesmen. High Point is already known as the furniture hub of the South. The first furniture plant Opened in 1888. That plant was the High Point Furniture Company. The population of High Point is seven thousand. A highly organized City Council oversees one of the first municipally owned electrical services in the South, lighting the city at moderate cost. The bity also owns a soft water reservoir and combined with the many private wells, there is an ample water supply. In addition, the city has 5 sewage system and a well-manned police department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.