Tobacco Warehouse

207 Morehead Ave.

Photo likely taken early in 1963 shows 207 Morehead Avenue in the right background, with the Lucky Strike Service Station in the distance and American Tobacco's Fowler Building at the left edge (From Durham Urban Renewal Records, Box 1. Courtesy of Durham County Library - North Carolina Collection, available online at DigitalNC.org) From the late...

Ellis Road American Tobacco Warehouses

The former homeplace and dairy of YE Smith, the acreage near Ellis Road was redeveloped by American Tobacco in 1930 as tobacco storage warehouses. YE Smith dairy, 1910s. 1940s aerial, looking northwest. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) Most people reading this site know the Lucky Strike water tower at American Tobacco downtown...

Brodie Duke Warehouse

Brodie Duke Warehouse, 1930s (This particular crop Courtesy the Main Street project at UNC, which pulled it from Endangered Durham without attribution; they did credit the original source, where I scanned the photo. That was done with the kind permission of the Duke Rare Book and Manuscript collection.) Looking northwest, 1925. The Brodie Duke...

609 Foster Street

06.07.08 609 Foster Street was built in 1938 as a tobacco prizery and warehouse for the RJ Reynolds Company. Presumably, given the size of the Durham auction market, Reynolds wanted a presence convenient to the auction warehouses to press and store tobacco for shipping to their factories. 1937 plat. Note the reference to the "Big Bull Warehouse"...

Durham Hosiery Mill No. 6 - Cotton Warehouse

06.25.13 This cotton warehouse, with brick end walls and pilasters, later infilled with concrete block between pilasters, is the last remaining building of the destroyed Durham Hosiery Mills No. 6 complex that sat across Henderson Street. It was originally built ~1916, per the Durham County tax records. Note "Edge of Brick Building" on lot #11...

Reed Building - American Tobacco Company

Reed Building ------------- The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties...

320 Roney St.

Looking north on Roney St. from East Chapel Hill St., late 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The 300 block of Roney St. first developed as a residential street - the disparity in housing is striking as you compare Morris St., to the left in the above picture, and Roney, to the right. As the warehouse...

Hill Warehouse - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

Washington Building - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

Farley Warehouse

(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The louvered sides of the Garrard warehouses, visible along Fuller Street (between the Imperial Tobacco building in the foreground and Durham High in the background.)