Train Depot

Durham Station / Freight & Car Train Depot

Original 1854 NC railroad survey, showing the future location of Durham's Station (Courtesy David Southern/Steve Rankin)

Rbt. Morris Tobacco Co / Sal Freight Dep.

RF Morris Tobacco Factory at the NC railroad tracks ~300 feet west of present-day Corcoran St., 1890 (Courtesy Digital Durham. The history of Robert Morris and his endeavors in the tobacco trade are an interesting, if patchwork, story about the earliest days of Durham. Per Jean Anderson: "Morris first appeared on Orange County scene .... in...

Norfolk Southern Railway Depot

The Norfolk Southern Railway depot in 1966. It was located within the wye tracks of the Norfolk & Western connecting Duke Belt Line at Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Durham Yard.

Norfolk Southern Depot - East Durham

Southern Railway Freight Depot

Looking northwest. Looking southwest from E. Pettigrew and Pine (S. Roxboro) (Courtesy Duke Archives) While we think of a relatively small number of early tobacco companies in Durham these days, there were many early companies, most of which fell by the wayside, one by one, as Blackwell and Duke became the predominant players. The Lyon Tobacco...