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Excerpt from Hill Directory Co. 'S (Incorporated), Wilmington, N. C. City Directory, 1924, Vol. 15: Embracing an Alphabetical List of Business, Houses and Private Citizens, a Directory of the City, County, State and National Governments, Fire Alarm Boxes, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Secret and Benevolent Institutions, Banks It is both important as a port and an industrial city, while it is the pivotal point for a rich and large agricultural area, and is the trading center for fully people, the city being their nearest, as well as largest, market. As a port, it possesses a fresh water harbor 28 miles from the bar. Ice is an unknown quantity in the river, which has a deep water channel, up and down which go big ocean steamers. Bound for Europe, Latin America and other foreign shores. Its exportations and importations are large and ever growing, which mark a successful port. As a cotton port it yearly sends forth upward of several hundred thousand bales per year, and this record is evidently going to be surpassed. Its imports cover a large field in variety and come from practically every quarter of the globe. Within the past year or two the population of Wilmington has increased in a tremendous way, and' it is now a city of about population, housed in comfortable homes. To accommodate the in creasing population not only did individuals build homes, but the citizens formed What is known as the Victory Home Company, with an authorized capital of a million dollars and pa'id IN OF $250, to erect houses, which object has been successfully carried out. 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.