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[Identification of item], in the Carolina Panel Company Records #04940, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Charles Clement Hargrave of Lexington, N.C., in February 1997 (Acc. 97014).

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• Carolina Panel Company.
• Furniture industry and trade--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Lexington (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Plywood industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Veneer industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.

The Carolina Panel Company of Lexington, N.C., began manufacturing high quality hardwood plywood in 1927 to supply the local furniture industry's demand for plywood. Roswell B. Robbins served as secretary-treasurer and general manager of the company, 1927-1938. Upon Robbins's death in 1938, C. Hamilton Hargrave took over as manager. Over the years, Carolina Panel's business expanded to include furniture makers all over the eastern United States. By 1988, however, a marketing research survey found that the demand for the plywood produced by Carolina Panel was drying up. In 1990, the board of directors sold the company to R. E. Lineberry, Inc.

Records, 1970-1991, relating to the Carolina Panel Company and pictures of employees working at the company's factory. A 1970 article about the company, comparative profit statistics, a marketing research survey about the future of the industry, and documents concerning the sale of the company are included.