Downtown South

Snorting Bull

Despite its quaint "Hit Bull Win Steak" slogan, the sign in the Durham Bulls Athletic Park outfield is not all that old. It was, in fact, created by the writers/producers of the movie Bull Durham in 1987 and installed at the Durham Athletic Park. The sign remained after filming, and became integrated into the lore of the Bulls and the DAP. The Bull...

Lucky Strike Water Tower - American Tobacco Main Campus

Lucky Strike Smokestack

Scarborough And Hargett (dillard Street)

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Durham Station / Freight & Car Train Depot

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

403 Pine Street / South Roxboro St.

403 S. Roxboro, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The east side of the 400 block of Pine Street / South Roxboro St. was primarily a residential street, developed in the 1880s, initially as part of a primarily Jewish community of eastern European cigarette-rollers working in the tobacco factories. 400 block of Pine...

309 South St.

309 South. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) South Street, which still exists south of Lakewood Avenue, once continued north to (or started at, depending on your perspective) Vivian St., running between Blackwell St. and South Mangum (McMannen) St. Near Vivian St., South St. once separated the city light and power/ice...

307 South St.

South Street, which still exists south of Lakewood Avenue, once continued north to (or started at, depending on your perspective) Vivian St., running between Blackwell St. and South Mangum (McMannen) St.

Austin-Heaton Flour Mill

The site of the 2008, $44 million Durham Performing Arts Center grew as a mixture of industrial and residential uses, located just south of the main railroad depot and just east of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. Julian Carr established the "Carrolina Roller Mills" - a flour mill - in 1902, incorporating the concern on April 21, 1902. The firm was...

207 Morehead Ave.

Photo likely taken early in 1963 shows 207 Morehead Avenue in the right background, with the Lucky Strike Service Station in the distance and American Tobacco's Fowler Building at the left edge (From Durham Urban Renewal Records, Box 1. Courtesy of Durham County Library - North Carolina Collection, available online at DigitalNC.org) From the late...