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Coal Sales
Floyd Coal Company / Cowan Mitchell Lumber Co
Cowan-Mitchell Lumber company, visible just beyond the Durham Hosiery Mill No 1 buildings. Floyd Coal Company, company, visible just beyond the Durham Hosiery Mill No 6 buildings.
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Mcghee Coal Company
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.
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