South Holman Street

1212-1214 Angier Avenue

View of the rear of 1212-1214 Angier, with the two long monitor roofs, looking north, 1950s (Courtesy of The Herald-Sun). Though county tax records date these buildings to 1900, it appears they were built later on the site of earlier houses on the streets north of the Commonwealth / Morven Cotton Mill. The evolution of construction at 1212-1214...

Edgemont Free Will Baptist Church

Edgemont Free Will Baptist, looking southeast from East Main St., 1930s (Courtesy Charlie Gibbs) Edgemont Free Will Baptist church originated in a meeting on November 19, 1922 called by Reverend RV (Bob) Self and Reverend WE (Uncle Bill) Anderson. Per a church brochure, the church was "born in an old-time Holy Ghost revival." Reverend Anderson...

Commonwealth / Morven Cotton Mill

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings that would become the Commonwealth Cotton Mill were built in 1884 as the Durham Bobbin and Shuttle Mill - a supplier of wooden parts for other cotton and wool mills - by John C. Angier, Alvis H. Stokes, Samuel T. Morgan, Eugene Morehead, James Blacknall, and Julian Carr. Richard Wright and Dr. J.L. Warkins...