American Tobacco Company

A narrow, vehicular bridge that connected the neighborhoods of Southside/St. Theresa's and Forest Hills from 1956 to 2009.

Photo likely taken early in 1963 shows 207 Morehead Avenue in the right background, with the Lucky Strike Service Station in the distance and American Tobacco's Fowler Building at the left edge (From Durham Urban Renewal Records, Box 1. Courtesy of Durham County Library - North Carolina Collection, available online at DigitalNC.org) From the late...

The oldest building remaining in downtown Durham as of 2011, the Old Bull building remains an impressive structure after 130+ years. Its hard to overstate how impressive it must have been in the context of a still-small town full of small frame buildings. Demand was booming when John Green died and William Blackwell purchased his interest in the...