Northern Durham

Designed by Boston architect Robert Burkhart for his parents. Sold in 1998 to Lex and Kathy Silbiger. The new owners found the design too modern and the plan was softened and beautifully renovated by Ramon Garcia.

(Thanks to Aimée Parham Williams for her detective work in finding this mystery house.) 03.01.59 03.01.59 Sold to Paul W. Layton Jr. Sold in 2000 to Frederick D. and Cay H. Melges. Sold in 2007 to Michael Park. Sold in 2010 to Inix LLC. 2012 (Steve Pulling)

04.01.12 The state's website and the various newspaper articles written about the closure of the Guess Road prison camp conflate the facility with the County Jail that stood (and the building still stands) on Broad Street. It was the three story structure built in 1925. After the state took over facilities in 1931, it constructed this facility; the...

"Turner's Store, 8 miles out Guess Road."

Per 2012 real estate listing: Great Farm house on 8+ acres with nice old barn buildings on property this property sits just across from St. Albans Ct. and 800 yards from Ashfield Place, another 7 acres is for sale (undeveloped) next door togeather they would make a great lay out for a new subdivision and or a small community. ALSO HAS 2 LARGE LOFT...

(Courtesy Cissy Pearse) It's not clear to me who was the original occupant / owner of the house at 9123 South Lowell Road. In ~1908, James S. Cobb acquired multiple tracts of land near Rougemont Road and South Lowell Road. The metes and bounds descriptions of these tracts ( "from the pile of rocks at Sasquatch's corner...," etc.) make it very hard...

02.20.68 Station 7, ~2008.

The school site is noted in DB58 P372: "That EW Warren and JR Turnage, in consideration of one dollar to them paid by the said County BOard of Education, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have bargained and sold... a tract or parcel of land ... adjoining the lands of William Terry, said Warren and Turnage, and the old Milton Hill school...

01.29.12 The Mount Lebanon Primitive Baptist Church was established in 1839; the old church burned in 1964 and was replaced with a masonry structure; the original graveyard, with marked graves back to the 1880s.