North Great Jones Street

"Great Jones Street" came into being when Thomas Decatur Jones built his 4 story brick tobacco warehouse on Watkins - later Morgan- Street, and a street was cut through between Main Street and Watkins/Morgan St. I have no idea how he managed to get "Great" put in front of Jones, but power to him. Jones came to Durham in 1881 and established the...

The Globe Tobacco Warehouse was built in 1885 and located on the north side of West Main St., between the Duke Factory and Five Points and adjacent to the railroad tracks. (Courtesy Duke Archives - digitized by Digital Durham) By the 1920s the building had become a Norfolk and Western freight depot. (Courtesy Duke Archives) A view of the back of...