Baptist Church

First established as Piney Grove Baptist Church on then Fish Dam Rd (now Hamlin Rd) in 1894 on a plot owned by Luico Nichols. this religious community has endured many social changes. Excuse this article's incompletion, the place-holder draft appears to have self-published on 5/31 after a period of inactivity. I have yet to complete the final draft...

12.20.56 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Organized as a congregation in 1908, Mt. Gilead Baptist Church had its first dedicated structure just northwest of here on Lynchburg (later renamed Gurley) Street. When they moved to this location in fall 1918, the pastor was Rev. David Jones, who lived a block away at 311 Dowd. It appears that it was...

Looking west at Mt. Vernon and South Queen Sts., 1922 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The Mount Vernon Baptist Church was established in 1880 on 'Ramsey Hill' by Pastor JBK Butler. An aerial picture (mid-1940s) showing several locations I'm posting on this week.

Thanks first off to Andy Edmonds who has been commenting on the destruction of this church building on my Maplewood Cemetery post. Per the church website, First Calvary Baptist Church was organized in 1884 as Second Baptist Church on Cameron (now Cornell) Street. The white Second Baptist Church was located at West Chapel Hill and Shepherd Sts. - its name was later changed to Temple Baptist.

The Jewish community in Durham grew slowly during the 1870s with the arrival of families that opened mercantile establishments, but gained momentum during the 1880s with the advent of cigarette manufacture by the Blackwell and Duke tobacco companies. The cigarettes were initially hand-rolled, and many of the experienced rollers came to Durham from...