Agricultural Cooperative

Central Carolina Farmer's Exchange - New Feed Mill

(Photo by Gary Kueber) The modern CCFX feed mill was built on the site of the former Durham Gas Company in 1965 - either replacing or supplementing the capacity of the old feed mill operation behind (to the north of) 801 GIlbert. The gas plant had been located on the site previously - since 1905. An early picture of the gas plant, below: (Courtesy...

Farmers Mutual Exchange - Maintenance Garage

Farmers Exchange Cold Storage / Freezer Lockers

1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") The Cold Storage and Freezer Locker Plant in Durham offers all services needed for the complete processing and storage of meat for farmers and others. Processing starts with the dressed carcasses, which farmers bring to the plant or which the plant has bought for those wanting meat. For a...

900 Mallard Ave. - Farmers Exchange Hatchery

1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") Farmers Exchange Chick Hatchery has a two-fold purpose–to provide a cash market for hatching eggs produced by farmer patrons with specialized flocks and to hatch the thriftiest type chicks for either broilers or layers. Growing from 3600 chicks hatched each week in 1940 to the production of...

Farmers Exchange - Poultry Plant

1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") " A Poultry Plant to process and market large amounts of poultry was one of the first operations started by the Exchange to give local farmers a source of income other than tobacco. When the Department began operating in 1931, there was very little poultry being grown in this section - not...

Durham Hosiery Mills Dye House

Built as a central Dye House for the Durham Hosiery Mill Company in 1921-1922, 708 Gilbert closed during the Great Depression (1934,) but reopened in 1941-1942 as part of the Durham Farmers Mutual Exchange - serving as a seed cleaning and inoculation facility and "service store"