Here are some statewide directories for North Carolina:

• Thomson’s Mercantile and Professional Directory 1851—1852

• The Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, Volume 1, 1854

• Branson & Farrar’s North Carolina Business Directory for 1866-67

• Branson’s North Carolina Business Directory. Volumes for 1867/1868, 1869, 1890 and 1896

• North Carolina Business Directory, 1872

• Branson’s North Carolina Business Directory, 1889

• North Carolina Year Book (and Business Directory). 1901-1916, 1922, 1923

• North Carolina Industrial Directory, 1928

• Industrial Directory and Reference Book of the State of North Carolina, 1938