South Driver Street

458-460-462 South Driver Street was likely built in the 1930s, replacing earlier frame structures on the site, but could have been built earlier. By 1940, 460-462 housed Dub's Sandwich Shop. By 1944, the Warner Hosiery Mill was at 460, and Garland Woodcraft had offices at 462. By 1950, the Jay Hosiery Mill was at 460, and the Cramo Hosiery Mill at 462.

1980

457 S. Driver, 1980 When 457 South Driver Street was built is unclear to me; the addresses and parcels shift a lot over the course of the 20th century in this ~1/2 block.

455 S Driver, 1953 455 South Driver, 10.02.10 The rear portion of this property was developed in the late 1940s as Garland Woodcraft; when the building on South Driver was constructed is unclear - but after 1950. The business, which now takes up the remainder of the block south to Peabody, remains active as of 2011.

429 South Driver, 1980 10.02.10 Find this spot on a Google Map. 35.981086,-78.878314

10.02.10 Find this spot on a Google Map. 35.981251,-78.878138

410 South Driver, 1980 (Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1-story tri-gable house with German siding, 6-over-6 sash wndows, a double front door with arched upper glass panes, and a full front porch. Alterations include some vinyl siding and replacement metal porch...

One of the earliest businesses established in the Angier-Driver business district of East Durham, Crabtree Pharmacy, was started in 1904 by R.A. Crabtree, C.A. Crabtree, H.C. Barbee, and Viola Young. The Crabtree family, 1895 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The original building was a frame structure on the southeast...

Angier Avenue Baptist, along with Carr Methodist, traces its origins to the establishment of East Durham in the 1880s. In 1886, two years after the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, RT Howerton of the First Baptist Church organized Sunday School classes in one of two original schoolhouses in East Durham - the Oak Grove...

312-316 South Driver, 1945 312-316 South Driver was built in the 1920s. By the early 1930s, it housed Ferguson Grocery at 312, DW Brown Dry Cleaners at 314, and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) at 316. (314 had a wing that extended from the rear of the building to the south, fronting on Angier Avenue - 2021 Angier.) By the mid-1940s, 312 had become the East Durham Beauty Shop. It was closed by 1950.