This is the house that belonged to John Wilkins and Kate Poole Terry. Mary Ruth Terry and her brother Sam grew up in this house. She also told me that she had always been told that the house was a log house and that the weatherboard was put over the logs. She also said she has never seen any of the logs. The adjacent frame structure, mentioned in...

The house in photograph belonged to my Grandfather, Joseph Davis Terry, and my Grandmother, Sudie Poole Terry. We called my Grandmother “Mama Terry” which was the custom in this community at the time. The land the house was on originally belonged to the Gates. Two of the Gates sisters, who never married, lived in the log portion of the house prior...

Terrible picture, but the best I have. 406 Cleveland is on the right. Appears to have been a residence through the 1930s; by 1950, the facade had been altered / full-facade front porch removed, and the building converted to a Christian Scientist church. The building was torn down between 1961 and 1963. There's a sign on the tree in the picture...

~1960 (Courtesy Ralph Rogers) Torn down in 1961 for Fire Station #1 #3 (the third FS #1)

1952 (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) Children in front of the Fuller School (Cleveland Street) ~1900. 413 Cleveland is in the background. The house was demolished sometime between 1938 and 1950. Given the style of the service station, likely closer to 1950. ~1960 (Courtesy Ralph Rogers) Demolished in 1961 for the third-time's-the-charm Fire Station #1.

~1960 (Courtesy Ralph Rogers) Being demolished for the newest incarnation of Fire Station #1 - 07.24.61 Being demolished for the newest incarnation of Fire Station #1, with fragments of 407 Cleveland in the foreground - 07.24.61

301 West Main was the home of the C.D. Kenny Company, a local tea, coffee, and sugar store, soon after the turn of the century. The C.D. Kenny company subsequently moved to 327 W. Main St. 301 West Main, 1910s. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A facade change occurred sometime during the 1920s, and the building became the first location of Sears...