West Durham

2602 West Main St., 08.21.61 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Find this spot on a Google Map. 36.008428,-78.929447

It's a bit murky as to whether a school existed at Ninth and West Knox (C) Streets prior to 1912. Per Jean Anderson, the West Durham Graded School on Swift Avenue was formed from the consolidation of Northside School and Piney Grove School. Piney Grove was located on Swift Avenue, however, she notes only that Northside was located "north of the railroad tracks."

756-760 Ninth St. was built in the early 1930s. 756 housed Southern Dry Cleaners as its original tenant, and 758-760 housed Pender’s Stores and Parragon 5¢ to $1 Store, respectively. 756 Ninth would house the Southern Dry Cleaners until 1980, while 758-760 had a variety of other tenants: 1940s: 758 Colonial Stores gros 760 Royal Sandwich Co 1950s: 758-760: Red & White Super Mkt gros (later Eaubanks Red and White)

744-752 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Built in the early 1920s, 748-752 Ninth St. housed Bowen’s Barber Shop at 748, Universal Stores Inc at 750, and Pender Stores Co at 752 in 1926. 1930: 748 West Durham Market meats 750 Moser’s Barber Shop 752 Universal Stores Co Inc (br) bros 1930s-1940s

744-752 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 746 Ninth St. housed "Overton and Riley" in 1926 - it isn't noted what type of business this was. By 1930, this was the "Little Gift Shop." By the 1940s, 744 Ninth housed Parragon's 5 and 10 cent store, and 746 housed the Quality Clothing Co. (men's wear.) This became Gordon's clothes store by the 1950s.

740 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 740 Ninth was the location of John Dailey's grocery store by 1926; by 1935 it is noted as Calvin Dailey's grocery store. By the early 1940s, Dailey had moved southward to 736-738 Ninth, and Louis Bonardi had moved his fruit and produce store to Dailey's former location at 740 Ninth.

734-738 Ninth, early 1920s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Looking northeast, early 1920s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Ninth St., looking northeast from near Stack St., ~1920s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Sanborn map of Ninth St., 1937 714 Ninth Street was initially part of the Erwin Mills mill village, part of the housing built to the east of the mill extending east to Broad Street. A mill house stood on the later site of the commercial building.