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Durham / Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer Company

Samuel Tate Morgan, in partnership with Eugene Morehead, and Louis (Lewis) Carr, established the Durham Fertilizer Company around 1881; he hit upon using a waste product of the tobacco production process - the stems - to make fertilizer. On September 12, 1895, he formed the Virgina-Carolina Chemical (Fertilizer) Company, which was headquartered in...
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922 Englewood Ave.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Intact front-gable 1 1/2-story bungalow with wide weatherboard, 9/1 sash windows, decorative eave brackets and exposed rafter tails. An offset gabled porch with stuccoed piers shelters a glazed and paneled door. The gable...
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Scarlett, Charles

Date of birth
09.16.1877
Place of birth
Orange County, NC
Place of death
Durham, NC
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1417 Watts St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Picturesque 1 1/2-story Queen Anne cottage with a pyramidal roof, a central chimney, a front gabled wing, a front hipped donner, and a north side gabled bay window. The wraparound porch has a bowed north comer and...
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1115 Watts St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Vernacular 1-story house of gable-and-wing form, with a side-gable roof, a front cross-gable, a wraparound porch, and 2/2 sash windows. Alterations include replacement porch posts and railing and vinyl siding and trim. It...
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1109 N. Gregson St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Vernacular Victorian 2-story house with a pmtial hip and partial gable roof, a gabled front wing, an interior chimney, and 1/1 sash windows. The 1-story porch (probably a 1930s replacement) has tapered box posts and a plain...
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1026 Green St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story tri-gable house with original glazed and paneled door, otiginal 9/1 sash windows, and a hipped porch. The brick and battered post supports may be 1920s or 1930s replacements. Vinyl siding and trim. Ira W...
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923 Englewood Ave. - Breeze Farmhouse

(Durham County tax office) Large 2-story frame house with a pyramidal hip roof with flanking side-gabled sections and 2 gabled wall dmmers. The central bay is a gabled pavilion. Other original features are weatherboard, 6/6 sash windows, wide plain cornices and wide eave retums. Alterations include a replacement Colonial Revival- style entrance...
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411 N. Gregson St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Following ideas expressed in pattern books and nagazines of the early 1930s, this two-story three-bay frame house displays a gabled roofline, an exterior-end chimney, six-over-six windows, and a panelled entry door flanked...
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407 N. Gregson St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The widow of F.M. Morgan, superintendent of the wiring department at the Durham Traction Co., lived in the house in the 1920s and 1930s and supplemented her income by renting rooms. Built in the early 1920s, this Foursquare...
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