Angier Avenue

East Durham Post Office Dedication, 04.17.66 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

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.

2116 Angier Ave, 1980 When Wachovia bought the Fidelity Bank in 1956, they closed the East Durham branch at the northwest corner of S. Driver and Angier and opened a new branch at 2116 Angier Avenue. I'm not sure when the bank closed down here, but it was still operating into the 1980s; it appears that there is a 1970s era drive-thru at the rear of the parking lot.

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 can say that it has certainly been at least 5-6 years.

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...

With the closure of the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 1 in 1938, the Edgemont community fell into significant socioeconomic decline - after having only been out of economic despair for ~40 years.

Taken from the Edgemont Community Center, looking north across Angier Avenue Home To Bryant's Little Laundry and Wiley Evans Cafe (at 903) in the 1960s

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.

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...

2312 Angier Avenue, looking northwest, 10.31.07.