Guess Road

06.25.2014

Originally part of a chain of drive ins and diners throughout the Carolinas, the Durham location of Honey's Restaurant opened it's doors in 1961 and was popular with the after church and middle of the night crowds. This Durham mainstay, and the last surviving restaurant in the chain, will close it's doors on Sunday August 18, 2013 for good.

07.22.12 I figure that I must not be the only person in Durham, or in the Triangle who is interested in a place like this, but the fact that no one else has put it on here over the last 8 months, and the complete lack of any history in a Google search must mean that I am. Regardless, the former house at 2926 Guess Road (originally noted in the...

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...

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.

John T. Tilley (1870-1946), a prominent farmer in the area west of the South Lowell settlement, built this two-story farmhouse about 1915. He and his wife, Lora Wood Tilley had nine children, one of whom was Preston, builder of the Preston Tilley Service Station on Roxboro Road. Lora Wood Tilley sold the property to Stanley Carpenter in 1949. He...

This is the house that belonged to John Wilkins and Kate Poole Terry. Mary Ruth Terry and her brother Sam grew up in this house. She also told me that she had always been told that the house was a log house and that the weatherboard was put over the logs. She also said she has never seen any of the logs. The adjacent frame structure, mentioned in...