Railroad Depot

Durham Station / Freight & Car Train Depot

Original 1854 NC railroad survey, showing the future location of Durham's Station (Courtesy David Southern/Steve Rankin)

Norfolk Southern Railway Depot

The Norfolk Southern Railway depot in 1966. It was located within the wye tracks of the Norfolk & Western connecting Duke Belt Line at Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Durham Yard.

Norfolk Southern Depot - East Durham

Southern Railway Freight Depot

Looking northwest. Looking southwest from E. Pettigrew and Pine (S. Roxboro) (Courtesy Duke Archives) While we think of a relatively small number of early tobacco companies in Durham these days, there were many early companies, most of which fell by the wayside, one by one, as Blackwell and Duke became the predominant players. The Lyon Tobacco...

Globe Warehouse

The Globe Tobacco Warehouse was built in 1885 and located on the north side of West Main St., between the Duke Factory and Five Points and adjacent to the railroad tracks. (Courtesy Duke Archives - digitized by Digital Durham) By the 1920s the building had become a Norfolk and Western freight depot. (Courtesy Duke Archives) A view of the back of...