Northern Durham

01.14.12

This is the house that belonged to John Wilkins and Kate Poole Terry. Mary Ruth Terry and her brother Sam grew up in this house. She also told me that she had always been told that the house was a log house and that the weatherboard was put over the logs. She also said she has never seen any of the logs. The adjacent frame structure, mentioned in...

The house in photograph belonged to my Grandfather, Joseph Davis Terry, and my Grandmother, Sudie Poole Terry. We called my Grandmother “Mama Terry” which was the custom in this community at the time. The land the house was on originally belonged to the Gates. Two of the Gates sisters, who never married, lived in the log portion of the house prior...

1910. Notice the instruments; William S. Terry is on horseback. Terry was selected as a constable of Lebanon Township in May of 1881, immediately following the formation of Durham County in April of that year. Terry died on August 29, 1918. It's unknown when the old house was demolished; a ranch-style structure replaced it, likely in the 1960s. 01...

1988 SHPO proof sheet photo - negative DH2478 if someone wants to pay for a better copy from the negative and send it to me. AP wire story picked up from the Herald, March 26, 2000 Bobby Copeland remembers clutching his grandaddy's hand in the corner gas station. He'd eyeball the candy rack while a group of local men would gather to chat about...

01.29.12 It's unclear who built the house at Guess Road, but it came into the possession of Will Terry in the early 20th century. By 1919, it was owned by the Warren and Turnage families, who incidentally lived next to one another on Watts Street. (And yes, it's the same Turnage who stated Turnage's BBQ.)

John Roland Terry, on accordion, and his brother Edsel, on fiddle, play with two brothers named Smith (mandolin and guitar) at the Pick and Bow in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The stage is raised and at the center of the room. Dancers at the Pick and Bow, late 1940s or early 1950s, heading in opposite directions in concentric circles around the...

Ella Chisenhall began a family enterprise in 1935 when she built this frame, gable-roofed, box and canopy store with money inherited from her parents. When the structure was completed, her husband, Herbert, gave her one-half acre of land surrounding it. The couple’s oldest son, Clarence, ran the store for a number of years, selling groceries and...

When John Cabe’s fifth daughter, Rachel, married Moses McCown in 1813, Cabe helped the couple settle on the south bank of the Eno River near a site where the water drop was sufficient to power a mill. Rachel and Moses shortly established a mill that operated first as a tilt hammer for forging metal and later as a sawmill and a gristmill for...

According to E. L. Terry, the main block of the Giles Latta House, a frame, two-story, gable-roofed structure with a large fieldstone and brick end chimney, and a side passage plan was constructed in 1875 and added to an antebellum one-room structure with simple Greek Revival details that is now a part of the rear ell. At first glance, the main...