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Excerpt from Miller's Asheboro, N. C. City Directory, 1949-1950, Vol. 5: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory Asheboro, the seat of Randolph County, is located in the Piedmont section of North Carolina and is near if not the exact geographical center of the state. It is about 180 miles east of Asheville, and is approximately lhe same number of miles northwest of Wilmington. It is 26 miles south of Greensboro and 56 miles north of Pinehurst, the famous winter resort. The elevation of the city is 855 feet above sea level. The heart of the business district is on the highest point between two important water sheds, which furnish the city adequate drainage with no danger of floods. The mean temperature for Asheboro, according to complete weather records kept over a period of 21 years, is degrees. Zéro temper atures are exceedingly rare and 100 degree temperatures have been recorded only a very few times at the Weather Bureau. During the year 1948 there were 183 days that were classified as clear, 85 partly cloudy and only 98 cloudy. Asheboro is located in what is known as the Uwharrie Mountain range and from almost any place in the city, beautiful small mountains several hundred feet high can be seen. These unfold a variety of beau tiful scenery from every highway in the county. 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.