Reg Tilley's Store - 1500 Bahama Road

It ain't pronounced like the Caribbean islands. Small community in northern Durham county whose name derives from an amalgamation of the last names of the early families in the area. (Ball, Harris, Mangum.)

Historic Bahama: Durham's Country Crossroads Long before Dr. Bartlett Durham sold a parcel of land to the railroad for a station, many families had settled in the northern part of what was then Orange County. As early as the 1740S settlers were moving south from Virginia and Maryland and west from the coastal settlements to the wooded frontier of...