Digital Gaston County, North Carolina

North Carolina industrial directory [1928]

Industrial directory and reference book of the state of North Carolina [1938]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1944]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1948]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1952]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms: 1954 supplement

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1956]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms: 1958 supplement

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1960]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms: 1962 supplement

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1964]

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms: 1966 supplement

North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms [1968]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1973]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1975]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1977]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1980]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1982]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1984]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1986]

Directory of manufacturing firms in North Carolina [1988]

Directory of manufacturing firms in North Carolina [1990]

Directory of North Carolina manufacturing firms [1993]

Industrial directory Gaston County, North Carolina 1977

Industrial directory Gaston County, North Carolina Supplement June 1979

Industrial directory Gaston County, North Carolina 1983

Industrial directory Gaston County, North Carolina 1985

Industrial directory Gaston County, North Carolina 1987

Gaston County, N.C., Manufacturing Directory, 1994

Forty years of progress: 1924-1964  Gaston County Merchants Association
[Gastonia, NC: Gaston County Merchants Association, [1965?].   Subjects:   Gaston County (N.C.) -- Commerce. 

Some earlier information on county residents may be found in various statewide business directories that were published for North Carolina. Examples include:

• Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory 1851—1852.
• The Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, Volume 1. The full text of the 1854 edition is available through Google Books.
• Branson & Farrar's North Carolina Business Directory for 1866-67. Available online at Documenting the American South.
• Branson's North Carolina Business Directory. Volumes for 1867/1868, 1869, 1890 and 1896 are in the Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts Archive.
• North Carolina Business Directory, 1872 ed. at Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts Archive.
• Branson's North Carolina Business Directory. The full text of the 1890, Vol. 7 edition is available through Google Books.
• North Carolina Year Book (and Business Directory). Digitized images of 1901 through 1916, 1922, and 1923 are available at the Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts Archive.
• North Carolina Industrial Directory, 1928. In the North Carolina Digital Collections
• Industrial Directory and Reference Book of the State of North Carolina, published by the N. C. Dept of Labor in 1938. In the North Carolina Digital Collections.
• North Carolina directory of manufacturing firms, published by the N. C. Dept of Labor, for 1928, 1938, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1954 Supplement, 1956, 1958 Supplement, 1960, 1962 Supplement, 1964, 1966 Supplement, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993.