Northern Durham

The Carrington House, with the West Point Mill in the background, to the left. David Southern recounts: Jean Anderson once showed me several photos of the front of the house showing where clapboards had fallen away to reveal square logs. I read, today, that one of the Terry houses also is remembered as being clapboard over logs. The arrangement of...

One other eighteenth-century house, which stood until the 1970s, should be remembered for its rarity among dwellings of its time in Orange County - Tyree Harris' Brick House. Probably built in the 1760s, it was about 20 feet square, of half-timbered construction with the exception of the rear chimney wall, which was entirely of brick; within, it...

Twelve farm families raised money to help finance construction of the Union School, built in 1913 on donated land at the junction of the Roxboro and South Lowell Roads. When the Durham County school board consolidated smaller schools ten years later, the building was taken out of service and the property sold to Charles Crabtree who donated it to...

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Dr. Isaac Cannady who established his medical practice in the South Lowell area before the Civil War, constructed a one-story Greek Revival cottage along the banks of the Little River. The symmetrical dwelling is two rooms deep with a wide center passage, and Cannady chose a double-leaf entry door unusual for small horizontal panels set below the...

John T. Tilley (1870-1946), a prominent farmer in the area west of the South Lowell settlement, built this two-story farmhouse about 1915. He and his wife, Lora Wood Tilley had nine children, one of whom was Preston, builder of the Preston Tilley Service Station on Roxboro Road. Lora Wood Tilley sold the property to Stanley Carpenter in 1949. He...