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Atkins Family Cemetery - 4600 Hope Valley Road

I've passed by this cemetery a million times but never stopped. It's kind of in an awkward place to pull over and explore so close to the road. I am sure that the people buried there would be disappointed to be so surrounded by the future. There are 24 graves, 22 of which are legible. Here's a full list. It's a very interesting family, with some...
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Berea Baptist Church And Cemetery- 5011 Fayetteville Road

The Berea Baptist Church was founded in 1855, yet this church building is from 1900. Next to the church is a graveyard that is the resting place of some early South Durham families.
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Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco Company

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1408 Humphrey Street/glenn Street

This was the home of Arthur and Martha Stanley throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
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1406 Humphrey Street / Glenn St.

This was the home of George and Lovie Tate who owned a sweets shop in the neighborhood.
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1405 Humphrey Street / Glenn Street

This home shows up on the 1913 Sanborn maps, so I was assume it was built in the first decade of the 20th Century. While Glenn Street/Glenn Alley shows up in city directories early on, no house numbers are specified for residents until 1926. Notice that Glenn actually used to extend from Fayetteville Road down to Bacon Street. Today the former...
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Massey's Chapel

Located right around the corner from Southpoint Mall, the current Massey's Chapel building has hosted its United Methodist congregation for the over a century. The simple and elegant wooden structure is designed proportionally around its stock Gothic windows. Besides replacements and repairs done to the walls, the exterior of the building is very...
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1308 N. Mangum St.

1981 Renovated 2013-2014; on market for $474K as of May 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014
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1213 N. Mangum St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (From the overflowing-with-information National Register Nomination:) Small weatherboarded house. Interesting steeped brick chimney. Front and side gables with return. Wrought iron front porch posts. One story . 08.17.13
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1210 N. Mangum St.

1981
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