"Working on Southern High School, 08.13.56" Southern High moved to 800 Clayton Road in 1993; these buildings were purchased by Glaxo, gutted, and refurbished/rebuilt as part of GSK's campus. The main building encompasses 201,056 sq ft with the detached gym building coming in at 10,178 sq ft. The building was once known by its 1818 Ellis Road...

04.08.12 John and Mamie Tuten were the original owners of 1409 Fayetteville St. John passed away in 1925, likely before or around the time the home was completed. Mamie was a domestic worker. She went on to marry Lonnie Williams, a World War I veteran. The next owners were Eugene and Mittie Tatum. Eugene was from Sampson County, North Carolina. He...

04.08.12 Daisy E. Scarborough purchased the lot that would eventually become 1407 Fayetteville Street in 1920. This lot was intended to be built on if and when Daisy’s daughter, Ernestine S. Bynum, wanted to settle down in Durham and build her own home. The home was built circa 1937, after Ernestine’s father built the property as a means for...

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Looking west ~1960

1938 City Directory: Atlas P. Hinson (textile worker) and Lula M. Hinson; 5 children

04.08.2010 This property was acquired in late 1924 by Alexander D. Durham, one of dozens of lots laid out south of the growing city center by the New Hope Realty Company. Both Alexander and his wife Jeanette (also born with the family name Durham) appear to have been born to former slaves living on either side of the Orange-Chatham County line...