Jersey Avenue

Davis Baking Company

Looking north, 1978 (Courtesy Robby Delius) The Davis Baking Company building was originally built in the late 1920s by Cary and Charlie Crutchfield, who operated a dairy in southwest Durham. A gas station was constructed soon thereafter on the corner, and the two-story building was occupied by the Lakewood Barber Shop. In the 1940s, the Davis...

Lakewood Shopping Center

( Many thanks to Myers Sugg for making his files on Lakewood Park available to me, and to Marcus Latta, whose recollections extensively document the park.) Looking north from Chapel Hill Road, around 1910. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Durham Traction Company, which purchased the city's streetcar system in 1901...

Lakewood Amusement Park

Durham's grandest attraction of the early 20th century, Lakewood Park, at the southwest end of the streetcar line, offered dancing, rides (including a roller coaster,) swimming, and theater. With the demise of the streetcar in the 1920s, Lakewood Park struggled, and finally closed for good in 1932