Lowes Grove

Innovative school provided a center for once-rural community. Now almost entirely demolished.

This was the home of Edmund Burke Hopson and his wife Eula O'Bryant Hopson. They passed away in 1967 and 1965 respectively. The property, which extended from S. Alston Ave. to T.W. Alexander Dr. was sold to Sumitomo Electric in 1983. In 2008, the 40 acres along S. Alston Ave. was sold to Southeastern Freight Lines of South Carolina. Many assumed the house was gone until the land was cleared in October of 2012. The house is to be demolished in mid November, 2012 to make way for the new Southeastern Freight Lines Terminal.

Lowe's Grove Credit Union, 1916 (From "Documents of Durham" - Durham County Library NC Collection) (Map Location above is approximate.) From the NCDCR website: The credit union movement has its roots, in part, at Lowes Grove, once an agricultural community in Durham County, today enveloped by the burgeoning Research Triangle Park. The first credit...