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Sampson County is midway between Raleigh and Wilmington and in the heart of the best farming and trucking sections of the State. The county is traversed for forty miles by the Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad and also for fourteen miles by the Clinton–Warsaw branch of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

The county has an area of 925 square miles and a population of about 40,000, and is the second largest county in the State. Clinton is the capital of the county and has a population of 2,500. It has seven churches, Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Universalist and Holiness.

Besides Clinton, the county has eight incorporated towns, Roseboro, Salemburg, Autryville, Parkersburg, Garland, Kerr, Ivanhoe and Turkey; and several unincorporated villages, Hayne, Mints, Tomahawk, Ingold, Moultonville, Newton Grove, and Harrells Store. All these villages, as well as the rural districts, have creditable schools and churches.

The county has been constructing improved highways for sixteen years and now has over 400 miles of improved highways penetrating each of its seventeen townships, seventy-five per cent of which is under patrol maintenance, so that each community is in easy access to an improved highway. The county is traversed from north to south by State Highway Route No. 60 for a distance of 54 miles, and from east to west by State Highway Route No. 24 for a distance of 30 miles. The State and the county have together spent over a million dollars in improved roads and bridges in the county in the past few years.

There is a Christian church and a good public school in every community in the county. The two first model communities in the South were established a few years ago at Salemburg and Ingold. The people are neighborly and friendly to newcomers in their midst.

Farming, trucking and stock raising is the principal occupation of its people. Early trucking in sweet corn, beans, peas, peppers, lettuce, cantaloupes, cucumbers, okra, turnips, Forty-Two