William Gaston Vickers Farmhouse

35.990048, -78.911356

629
West Proctor Street
Durham
NC
Cross Street
Vickers Avenue
Year built
1860-1875
Year demolished
1950-1959
Construction type
Frame
Neighborhood
Morehead Hill
Use
Residential
Farmhouse
Building Type
Residential
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VickersFarm_sanborn_1937.jpg

1937 - Vickers' farmhouse is in the middle of the block between Hill, Cobb, Proctor, and Vickers.

 

William Gaston Vickers’ land - acquired from Atlas Rigsbee - 200 acres for $1500. Built or occupied a farmhouse by the 1870s. Anecdotally made his money back in one parcel sale - to George Watts.

VickersFarm_aerial_1959.jpg

Aerial, 1959, showing new houses under construction - the driveway / site / field of the old farmhouse are still visible.

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Vickers, William Gaston

Article from the Durham Morning Herald August 3, 1976 He Used His Ambition To Get a 200-Acre Chunk of Durham by George Lougee From an interview with Claude Vickers William Gaston Vickers was a man of ambition and personality. He was born in 1838 in Orange County. As a boy her worked from sunup to sundown on a farm, his mother received $15 a year...
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