Downtown South

Hill Warehouse - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

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...

Washington Building - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

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...

334 South St.

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...

332 South St.

332 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...

330 South St.

330 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...

328 South St.

328 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...

326 South St.

326 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...

327 Matthews St. / Red Cross St.

327 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...

325 Matthews St. / Red Cross St.

325 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...

323 Matthews St. / Red Cross St.

323 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...