Pearl Street

John O'daniel Hosiery Mill / Farmers' Exchange

Scanned from 1924 Durham City of Industry book. Another of my favorite buildings in Durham, the John O'Daniel Hosiery Mill building, was built at 801 Gilbert St. in the late 1910s as the Paragon Hosiery Mill. It changed names rather quickly thereafter to become the Bowling-Emory Knitting Mill before being acquired in 1919 by Julian S. Carr as a...

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...