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Excerpt from Miller's Thomasville, N. C. City Directory, 1956-1957, Vol. 13: 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 According to the United States Census Bureau, the population of Thomasville in 1860 was 308. By 1900 it had grown to only 750. At the turn of the century the rapid growth and progress of Thomasville began with the advent of the furniture manufacturing industry. By 1910 the population was New enterprises, particularly in the textile field were added, so that by 1920 the city had grown to by 1940 to and by 1950 to Many small enterprises have been started in the past ten years. The city limits have not been extended since 1915. At least people live in the area immediately surround ing the city's incorporated limit of square miles. Fifteen percent of the city's papulation is Negro. Within a radius of 50 miles more than one million people reside. 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.