East Pettgrew Street

Boys collecting coal from the McGhee Coal Co. Looking north at Fayetteville and East Pettigrew Sts., ? 1940s/ (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) I don't have much in the way of history on the McGhee Coal Company - it appears to have been preceded by the Horton Coal and Wood Co. at the same location as early as 1913. Roy McGhee seems to have taken over the building/company around 1920.

(Courtesy State of North Carolina Archives) Block of East Pettigrew between Henry Alley (intersecting street on the right) and Cozart St. (intersecting street next to Speight's service station, on the left) - ~1940s. 538-540 is the mid-block two-story structure and the adjoining brick-storefront-in-front-of-a-wood-frame-house.