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Downtown A&p - Morgan And East Chapel Hill

Looking northeast from North Magnum, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) A residential neighborhood during the 1890s-1910s, the intersection of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill was, by the 1920s, the 'border' between the growing downtown commercial area and the residential neighborhood. Looking northeast, with East Chapel Hill St. on the right and North...

Colonial Stores / Goodwill

When Julian Carr established the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 1 (above), and the Golden Belt Hosiery Mill, he developed two communities - Edgemont and Morning Glory. At the center of those two communities, he developed a park (seen in the foreground above) with a baseball diamond, gazebo, trees, etc. This park was the center of the community - a place...

717 West Chapel Hill Street

As the West End developed along West Chapel Hill St., two commercial areas developed - one of the two was located at Vickers Avenue and West Chapel Hill St., the intersection between the main street of the West End and the main street of Morehead Hill. A set of early masonry structures was built here around 1910, probably replacing earlier frame...

812-814 Liberty Street - Winn-Dixie

The southwest corner of North Alston Ave. and Liberty St. was developed with small-scale residential structures during the early decades of the 20th century. As Alston Ave became a more heavily trafficked street during the 1950s, autmobile-scale commercial uses began to appear. During the 1960s, the aforementioned residential structures were demolished to build a new Winn-Dixie supermarket.

Piggly Wiggly - Roxboro And Club

Piggly Wiggly, looking northeast from North Roxboro, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)