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2110-2114 Angier Ave., 1980 2110-2114 Angier Avenue was built between 1945 and 1950. 2110 initially housed Patsy's Beauty Shop and 2112 the Tip Top Supermarket. Patsy's would close within a few years, replaced by the Linthicum Radio and TV Service. The grocery would also go by the name "Tip Top Royal Blue Grocery" By the 1980s, the building housed William's Jeweler at 2114 and Waters Barber Shop at 2110.

Angier Avenue Baptist, along with Carr Methodist, traces its origins to the establishment of East Durham in the 1880s. In 1886, two years after the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, RT Howerton of the First Baptist Church organized Sunday School classes in one of two original schoolhouses in East Durham - the Oak Grove...

803 Holloway Street, February 1966 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1999

312-316 South Driver, 1945 312-316 South Driver was built in the 1920s. By the early 1930s, it housed Ferguson Grocery at 312, DW Brown Dry Cleaners at 314, and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) at 316. (314 had a wing that extended from the rear of the building to the south, fronting on Angier Avenue - 2021 Angier.) By the mid-1940s, 312 had become the East Durham Beauty Shop. It was closed by 1950.

306-312 South Driver, 1945

300-302 South Driver - to the immediate right, looking south-southwest, 1980 300-302 South Driver was built in the early 1940s, and initially housed the "National 5 cent to $1 store." By 1950, prices had risen, and the name had changed to the "Marion's 5 cent to $5 store." By 1960, it was simply called "Marion's Stores."

---- East Durham Graded School, 1898 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The earliest schools in East Durham were two one-room schoolhouses - one, called the Cherry Grove School, was located near the present-day intersection of Liberty St. and North Driver St. The second was the Oak Grove School, located south of the railroad tracks...

Looking northwest from Maple Street, 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The Louise Knitting Mill was established in ~1915 - one of dozens of medium-sized textile manufacturers located throughout East and West Durham.

Northside Treatment Plant, looking east, 1930s.

Glenn School, 1910s Glenn School, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Glenn School, in the above incarnation, appears to have been built ~1930. In 1993, the buildings were demolished and replaced with a new elementary school Glenn School, June 1993. (Courtesy Robby Delius) Glenn School, July 1993. (Courtesy Robby Delius) Glenn School, July...