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Johnson Mill Cabin

William Saunders House

South Lowell School

Coggin House

Russell House / Russell Mill

01.29.12 Site of the Russell mill, at the now-broken dam. 01.29.12

Preservation Durham Civil Rights Legacy walking tour

Preservation Durham offers free walking tours, leaving from the Farmers' Market on Foster Street, on Saturdays at 10am from April through November. On the 2nd Saturday of each month a tour guide presents the Civil Rights Legacy walking tour. This tour was first offered on November 17, 2002 and since then thousands of Durhamites and visitors alike...

Dr. Isaac Cannady House

Dr. Isaac Cannady who established his medical practice in the South Lowell area before the Civil War, constructed a one-story Greek Revival cottage along the banks of the Little River. The symmetrical dwelling is two rooms deep with a wide center passage, and Cannady chose a double-leaf entry door unusual for small horizontal panels set below the...

Tilley-Carpenter House

John T. Tilley (1870-1946), a prominent farmer in the area west of the South Lowell settlement, built this two-story farmhouse about 1915. He and his wife, Lora Wood Tilley had nine children, one of whom was Preston, builder of the Preston Tilley Service Station on Roxboro Road. Lora Wood Tilley sold the property to Stanley Carpenter in 1949. He...

Terry Family

[ Many thanks to Peter Kramer for lending his collection of material about the Terry family, and both him and Terry Mangum for answering my copious questions.] James T. Terry was born in 1801, the son of James Terry, Sr. (II), and Sarah Thorpe. In 1848 James T. Terry acquired 260.5 acres on Little River adjoining the land of William Cain, the...

Isaac Terry House