Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company Looking southeast from East Pettigrew St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / scanned by Digital Durham) The oldest still-extant (at least partially) hosiery mill complex in Durham is the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company complex at East Pettigrew and South Driver Sts. The Durham Cotton and Manufacturing Company was... Durham Lumber Company / Delta Gypsum Durham Lumber Company, 1910 The land south of the Cheek Farm, adjacent to the North Carolina Railroad Tracks was owned and operated by the Durham Lumber Company - when this was initially established, I'm not sure. By 1904, the land belonged to WT Carrington, who ran an eponymous lumber company on the same site - by 1909 this reverted to the Durham... Bright Tobacco Co / Wl Robinson Tobacco Co 1937 Sanborn Map (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The Bright Tobacco Company - a redrying/wholesale company (much like the Venable Tobacco Company) appears to have been established in the 1600 block of East Pettgrew Street by the late 1920s/early 1930s. In 1935, the company became the WL Robinson Tobacco Company, which also dried, pressed, stored... 1401 Humphrey Street/glenn Alley Fred and Mary Henderson owned a grocery store at this address for over 4 decades. Commonwealth / Morven Cotton Mill (Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings that would become the Commonwealth Cotton Mill were built in 1884 as the Durham Bobbin and Shuttle Mill - a supplier of wooden parts for other cotton and wool mills - by John C. Angier, Alvis H. Stokes, Samuel T. Morgan, Eugene Morehead, James Blacknall, and Julian Carr. Richard Wright and Dr. J.L. Warkins... Durham Buggy Company / Newport Lumber Company Manufacturer of the "Bull" and "Durham" buggies, repurposed as a lumber company when buggies were replaced by automobiles. Long destroyed. Ruth Hosiery Mill / University Hosiery Mill Ruth Hosiery Mill, looking west, late 1930s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Ruth Hosiery Mill started at some point between 1923 and 1937; it appears that there was a frame structure to the south, and a later steel frame/brick curtain wall structure built to the north on East Pettigrew. By 1937, the northern... North State Knitting Mills / Gann Hosiery Mills Looking southeast from the north side of East Pettigrew St. at South Alston Ave, (prior to the construction of the East Pettigrew overpass,) 1924. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The North State Knitting Mill was established between 1911 and 1915. In 1915, WF Carr is noted to be president, WJ Berry vice-president, and... Mill Park Pure Oil Gas Station Mill Park service station, ~1950. (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) As I mentioned when discussing the Pure Oil Station at Morgan and N. Mangum, a sudden explosion of gas stations in residential neighborhoods during the 1920s met some resistance from neighbors - perhaps a bit aghast that every house on a corner was being torn down for another gas station. Yarbrough Mills / Wright Machinery Company Yarbrough Mill, ~1925 - looking northwest from Calvin St. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Yarbrough Mill, a hosiery mill, was established on Calvin St., near Holloway St. around 1925. There is very little extant detail about the origin or operation of the mill. Yarbrough Mills interior, undated, but mid to late... 1102-1104 Holloway Street 1102-1104 Holloway Street, 10.02.10 1102-1104 Holloway appears to have been built between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, "B's Home Cash Grocery" is a business located at this address. In 1934, it is referred to as "Beck's Cash Grocery." In 1941, 1102 had converted to a part of the Purity Stores grocery chain, and 1104 was Pop's Place, confectionery. These... 501 North Driver St. / Rc Rollins Store RC Rollins House and Store, 1980 Per the 1980 Historic Inventory 318 South Driver Street - Fidelity Bank East Durham Branch The East Durham branch of a bank that was once a Durham powerhouse. 402 South Driver Prominent, architecturally significant 2-story brick commercial building located at the comer of Angier Ave., with a diagonal entrance facing the intersection. The building has housed many businesses, including the Boone Drug Store, CM Headache Powders, Dr. Shuler's office, and the Seagroves grocery. 306-310 South Driver 306-312 South Driver, 1945 2100 Angier Avenue / Crabtree Pharmacy One of the earliest businesses established in the Angier-Driver business district of East Durham, Crabtree Pharmacy, was started in 1904 by R.A. Crabtree, C.A. Crabtree, H.C. Barbee, and Viola Young. The Crabtree family, 1895 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The original building was a frame structure on the southeast... 2108 Angier Avenue Andrews Grill, as it was originally called, opened around 1950. The Andrews family ran the Andrews Market, a grocery store, at 2104 and, later 2102 Angier Avenue. In the late 1940s, one of the sons built a small restaurant building mid-block at 2108 Angier and opened the Andrews Grill. For reasons unknown, the restaurant became Smith's Grill during... 2201 Angier Avenue 2201 Angier, March 2007 The East Durham Service Station was built in the early 1930s; I've seen another station almost identical to it in Savannah, GA, so my guess is that it was not an uncommon plan. The city directories continue to list the East Durham Service Station at least through the 1960s. I don't know how long it has been abandoned, but I... Durham / Virginia-Carolina Chemical / Fertilizer Company Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, looking northeast, ~1920 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Samuel Tate Morgan, in partnership with Eugene Morehead, and Louis (Lewis) Carr, established the Durham Fertilizer Company around 1881; he hit upon using a waste product of the tobacco production process - the stems - to make... Add new comment Log in or register to post comments.
Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company Looking southeast from East Pettigrew St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / scanned by Digital Durham) The oldest still-extant (at least partially) hosiery mill complex in Durham is the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company complex at East Pettigrew and South Driver Sts. The Durham Cotton and Manufacturing Company was...
Durham Lumber Company / Delta Gypsum Durham Lumber Company, 1910 The land south of the Cheek Farm, adjacent to the North Carolina Railroad Tracks was owned and operated by the Durham Lumber Company - when this was initially established, I'm not sure. By 1904, the land belonged to WT Carrington, who ran an eponymous lumber company on the same site - by 1909 this reverted to the Durham...
Bright Tobacco Co / Wl Robinson Tobacco Co 1937 Sanborn Map (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The Bright Tobacco Company - a redrying/wholesale company (much like the Venable Tobacco Company) appears to have been established in the 1600 block of East Pettgrew Street by the late 1920s/early 1930s. In 1935, the company became the WL Robinson Tobacco Company, which also dried, pressed, stored...
1401 Humphrey Street/glenn Alley Fred and Mary Henderson owned a grocery store at this address for over 4 decades.
Commonwealth / Morven Cotton Mill (Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings that would become the Commonwealth Cotton Mill were built in 1884 as the Durham Bobbin and Shuttle Mill - a supplier of wooden parts for other cotton and wool mills - by John C. Angier, Alvis H. Stokes, Samuel T. Morgan, Eugene Morehead, James Blacknall, and Julian Carr. Richard Wright and Dr. J.L. Warkins...
Durham Buggy Company / Newport Lumber Company Manufacturer of the "Bull" and "Durham" buggies, repurposed as a lumber company when buggies were replaced by automobiles. Long destroyed.
Ruth Hosiery Mill / University Hosiery Mill Ruth Hosiery Mill, looking west, late 1930s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Ruth Hosiery Mill started at some point between 1923 and 1937; it appears that there was a frame structure to the south, and a later steel frame/brick curtain wall structure built to the north on East Pettigrew. By 1937, the northern...
North State Knitting Mills / Gann Hosiery Mills Looking southeast from the north side of East Pettigrew St. at South Alston Ave, (prior to the construction of the East Pettigrew overpass,) 1924. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The North State Knitting Mill was established between 1911 and 1915. In 1915, WF Carr is noted to be president, WJ Berry vice-president, and...
Mill Park Pure Oil Gas Station Mill Park service station, ~1950. (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) As I mentioned when discussing the Pure Oil Station at Morgan and N. Mangum, a sudden explosion of gas stations in residential neighborhoods during the 1920s met some resistance from neighbors - perhaps a bit aghast that every house on a corner was being torn down for another gas station.
Yarbrough Mills / Wright Machinery Company Yarbrough Mill, ~1925 - looking northwest from Calvin St. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Yarbrough Mill, a hosiery mill, was established on Calvin St., near Holloway St. around 1925. There is very little extant detail about the origin or operation of the mill. Yarbrough Mills interior, undated, but mid to late...
1102-1104 Holloway Street 1102-1104 Holloway Street, 10.02.10 1102-1104 Holloway appears to have been built between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, "B's Home Cash Grocery" is a business located at this address. In 1934, it is referred to as "Beck's Cash Grocery." In 1941, 1102 had converted to a part of the Purity Stores grocery chain, and 1104 was Pop's Place, confectionery. These...
501 North Driver St. / Rc Rollins Store RC Rollins House and Store, 1980 Per the 1980 Historic Inventory
318 South Driver Street - Fidelity Bank East Durham Branch The East Durham branch of a bank that was once a Durham powerhouse.
402 South Driver Prominent, architecturally significant 2-story brick commercial building located at the comer of Angier Ave., with a diagonal entrance facing the intersection. The building has housed many businesses, including the Boone Drug Store, CM Headache Powders, Dr. Shuler's office, and the Seagroves grocery.
2100 Angier Avenue / Crabtree Pharmacy One of the earliest businesses established in the Angier-Driver business district of East Durham, Crabtree Pharmacy, was started in 1904 by R.A. Crabtree, C.A. Crabtree, H.C. Barbee, and Viola Young. The Crabtree family, 1895 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The original building was a frame structure on the southeast...
2108 Angier Avenue Andrews Grill, as it was originally called, opened around 1950. The Andrews family ran the Andrews Market, a grocery store, at 2104 and, later 2102 Angier Avenue. In the late 1940s, one of the sons built a small restaurant building mid-block at 2108 Angier and opened the Andrews Grill. For reasons unknown, the restaurant became Smith's Grill during...
2201 Angier Avenue 2201 Angier, March 2007 The East Durham Service Station was built in the early 1930s; I've seen another station almost identical to it in Savannah, GA, so my guess is that it was not an uncommon plan. The city directories continue to list the East Durham Service Station at least through the 1960s. I don't know how long it has been abandoned, but I...
Durham / Virginia-Carolina Chemical / Fertilizer Company Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, looking northeast, ~1920 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Samuel Tate Morgan, in partnership with Eugene Morehead, and Louis (Lewis) Carr, established the Durham Fertilizer Company around 1881; he hit upon using a waste product of the tobacco production process - the stems - to make...
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