Service Station

What would become the Hollow Rock Store was built by John Ransom Whitfield and run by John Brown in its early years. The store was a focal point for the community through much of the 20th century; in 1972 a new store was built behind the original, and the original store was moved to Jan Gregg's property. In 2000, the 1972 store was torn down by NCDOT as part of the replacement of the original bridge.

Formerly Dodson's Glenn Esso Service Station - renovated by Neighborhood Housing Services in ~1981.

Looking east on Miami / Highway 70, 01.02.53 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Looking west on Holloway / NC 98 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection)

12.05.10 The Mill Park Texaco Service Station was built on the corner of the Durham Hosiery Mill Park in ~1937. By the 1950s, it had been converted from a stand-and-awning filling station to a more 'cottage style' service station, then known as Mill Park Texaco. Station on the corner of Mill Park, looking north from over the Golden Belt mill...

Art-Deco "Man-Wy" service station, later upholstery shop - demolished in 1970 with the elimination of Wyatt Street

Five Points looking west, 1905 Between 1898 and 1902, the Durham Marble Works was built on land at Five Points that would become 421-423 West Main St. Per the 1895 Handbook of Durham:

"Before and After Series: Raleigh Durham Highway 70, 01.02.53" (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Update: Here is another, later photo of the same intersection: 1962. (Courtesy Wayne Henderson)

Murdock Building, 1929, during a national tree-sitting contest, during which Arnold Taylor sat in the tree for 6-7 weeks. Note the trolley tracks in Broad Street. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Looking southeast, 02.20.51 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The Dennis Service Station was built in the late 1920s. By the late 1940s, it had become the West Russell Amoco Service Station. At some point between the 1940s and 1970s, the building was replaced by a more modern service station building, sans awning.

Per the Old West Durham website, Reuben Hibberd, a local florist and lay preacher, began holding cottage prayer meetings and "Sunday Sings" in West Durham homes in 1893. Hibberd would often bring a small portable organ with him. As interest increased in Hibberd's meetings, the Sunday School was moved to a grandstand in the nearby Erwin Ballfield...