Built in 1938 owned by John and Jeanne Blackburn; sold in 1980 to John Hope and Aurelia Franklin

Later lived at 208 Pineview.

(County Tax Record photo) Segregated from facilities serving Durham's white community, the Harriet Tubman YWCA was a major site of organizing for civil and women's rights activism. Built alongside the John M. Avery House, which it had used since relocating from its first address on Fayetteville Street in 1937, the Tubman Y's new building opened...

From the Durham Herald-Sun, 02/04/12 DURHAM – Affectionately called Freedom House, the house at 1123 N. Roxboro St. owned by the late Floyd B. McKissick Sr. and his wife, the late Evelyn McKissick, was home to more than just the McKissick family in the 1950s and ’60s, but the Durham civil rights movement, too. Thanks to a Preservation Durham...

The Carrington House, with the West Point Mill in the background, to the left. David Southern recounts: Jean Anderson once showed me several photos of the front of the house showing where clapboards had fallen away to reveal square logs. I read, today, that one of the Terry houses also is remembered as being clapboard over logs. The arrangement of...

One other eighteenth-century house, which stood until the 1970s, should be remembered for its rarity among dwellings of its time in Orange County - Tyree Harris' Brick House. Probably built in the 1760s, it was about 20 feet square, of half-timbered construction with the exception of the rear chimney wall, which was entirely of brick; within, it...

Twelve farm families raised money to help finance construction of the Union School, built in 1913 on donated land at the junction of the Roxboro and South Lowell Roads. When the Durham County school board consolidated smaller schools ten years later, the building was taken out of service and the property sold to Charles Crabtree who donated it to...