Tobacco Company

Paschall's Bakery / Jm Mathes

Looking west, 1920s (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The Paschall’s Bakery building was erected in 1924 on the southwest corner of Duke and Morgan Streets (119-121 Duke Street). Owned and operated by Mallie J. and Louise W. Paschall, Paschall’s Bakery was a descendant of Mallie’s first bakery, the Star Bakery, which was located...

Liggett Research Buildings

------------- Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The block currently encircled by North Duke, West Main, Morgan, and Fuller Sts. originally held what appears to have been a tobacco field and wood frame structures of the...

Liggett Office Building

---------- Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The block currently encircled by North Duke, West Main, Morgan, and Fuller Sts. originally held what appears to have been a tobacco field and wood frame structures of the...

Cooper Garage - Liggett And Myers

Cooper Shop - Liggett And Myers

A "cooper" is an archaic term for someone who makes barrels, the preferred storage/transport method for tobacco in the late 19th/early 20th century. That L&M would have a dedicated building just for the manufacture of barrels gives you a sense of the volume of tobacco being produced.

Flowers Building - Liggett And Myers

The Flowers Building is named for William Washington Flowers, who joined L&M in 1911 and became its chairman in 1939. 1944, on the left, Flowers in the foreground (with the "Chesterfields Satisfy" bridge) and the Cooper Building in the background.

Reed Building - American Tobacco Company

Reed Building ------------- The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties...

Hill Warehouse - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

Washington Building - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

328-330 East Peabody

Some of the buildings I've most enjoyed seeing re-done in other cities are train-related - stations/depots of course, but also the kind of wholesale companies that lined the railroad tracks in many cities. A line of these type of structures were spread along the railroad tracks along the 300 block of East Peabody St. Looking east from the First...