Coca Cola Bottling Company of Durham

The Durham Coca-Cola bottling plant, originally located on the southeast corner of N. Church and Liberty Sts., relocated to the southeast corner of Milton Ave. (now Buchanan Blvd.) and West Main St. in 1930. A flat-roofed industrial wing extended off the western and southern facades of the building to accommodate machinery. In 1966, the bottling...

Looking southeast, 1960s. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The southeast corner of N. Church St. and Liberty St. was, per a 1951 writeup, the location of the downtown Coca Cola bottling plant from its inception in 1905 until it moved to West Main St. and Milton Ave. in 1930. The building above, however, was built between 1920 and 1923. The sign on...