Pleasant Drive

When farmland northeast of the old Raleigh highway - now Angier Avenue - was subdivided into parcels for auction in spring 1925, this was called Sherron Road.

1925 plat map for Arey's Spring Park subdivision. — 1925 plat map showing the Arey's Spring Park subdivision (Durham County Register of Deeds, PB5B, pg.190). Sherron Road is now Pleasant Drive, while the street shown as Lofton is now known as Boswell.

The term may at one point have referenced a longer road connecting this area to the Wake Forest Highway, perhaps linking with part of present-day Sherron Road further east. Regardless, the title is surely a reference to a prevalent surname in this part of Durham County. While the name for one of the subdivisions - Sherron Acres, originally referring to the set of lots sold by United Real Estate & Auction Co. for Fulford-Hines Realty Co. just southeast of those pictured above (see PB5B, pg.189) - would stick as a name for the area for some time, the name of the road itself would not. The moniker Pleasant Drive appears at least as early as a 1940 discussion about paving what had become an important connecting link between the old and new Raleigh highways. Not long thereafter, this pleasant term likewise began to be applied to the road's course northeast of US-70.

Fragment of 1948 Durham County map showing Pleasant Drive.

901 Pleasant Drive

According to county records, this house was constructed in 1925, which would make it one of the first wave constructed in the Sherron Acres subdivision as parcels began selling at auction that year.