110 Cora St. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking west on Cora Street, 1960s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Cora Street was yet another short, one-block street that ran between McMannen (Mangum) Street and Pine (Roxboro) St., just south of the Southern Railway freight depot. A cluster...

219-225 Foster Street

217 Foster Street

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

The intersection of S. Alston Ave. and Angier Ave., looking northwest from ~the railroad tracks. The intersection of E. Main and S. Alston is in the background. Taken sometime in the 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun)

The intersection of S. Alston Ave. and Angier Ave., looking northwest from ~the railroad tracks. The intersection of E. Main and S. Alston is in the background. Taken sometime in the 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun)

---- (Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings along the west side of the 200 block of North Church St. are a very-well preserved block of early 20th century structures. The Hicks building, on the northwest corner of North Church and East Parrish, and its immediate 3 neighbors to the north were constructed around 1910. 209-211 North Church, at the...

(Courtesy Norman Williams Collection) (Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings along the west side of the 200 block of North Church St. are a very-well preserved block of early 20th century structures. The Hicks building, on the northwest corner of North Church and East Parrish, and its immediate 3 neighbors to the north were constructed around 1910...

334 South St. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1891 Bird's Eye View of Durham, looking northwest. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) South Street was developed early in Durham's history, along with the adjacent McMannen St. While the initial homes on both streets were quite similar in...