C.M. Whiteley, a packer of Smithfield hams at Hampton, Va., has purchased a site for a packing house in this city and it is reported that he will build at an early date. Mr. Whitley was in Elizabeth City last Fall looking over the ground and determined at that time to locate here. He purchased several car loads of Pasquotank porkers last Winter for his Hampton, Va., plant.
The site purchased by the Hampton packer is on West Main Street, extended, just beyond the plant of the Pasquotank Packing Company. The lot has a frontage of 50 feet on the street and a depth of about 165 feet to the right of way of the Norfolk Southern Railway. The lot was conveyed by deed from H.C. Whitley on May 17, 1922.
The location of a new packing plant in Elizabeth City may be another result of the campaign waged by this newspaper last summer to urge the curing of Pasquotank hams in Pasquotank County, keeping the big profits in the county’s growing pork industry at home. The organization of the Pasquotank Packing Company, which began operations last fall, was one direct result of the educational work done by this newspaper.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, June 9, 1922. Whiteley, Whitley—yes, it was spelled different ways in the article. I don’t know which is correct.
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