Roxboro Road

The Clover Hill Dance Club, and drew people from 40 miles around – from Stem, Hillsborough, Durham, Creedmoor, and farther. “Back then, all you could do for entertainment was play an instrument and dance or go visit someone,” [Ike] Terry noted. His father, a fiddler, built the dance hall by popular demand. He started building a corn mill, Terry...

(The Rotarian, Summer 1929) Not sure of the exact location of this, but Jean Anderson noeds that it was at "Roxboro Road and the Eno River." She notes: "It was the Rotary Club, for example, that began a school lunch program in 1924 for poor children, made loans to high school boys to enable them to remain in school, and persuaded the YMCA to...

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...

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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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...

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...