Wholesale Drug Company

105-111 East Peabody Street

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The warehouse buildings along the 100 block of East Peabody Street (now Ramseur) were the warehouses for the Peabody Drug Company. A smaller building immediately to the east of the warehouse buildings appears to say "Durham County Progress". I'm not sure if this was a newspaper building or not. This view is looking...

Five Points - West / Five Points Drug Company

---------- Today, we move downtown to 'big' Five Points. Although Durham Station was established at the foot of Corcoran Street, at the railroad tracks, Five Points became an important hub of retail activity by the 1910s-1920s Looking west on West Main St., 1905. New mercantile, masonry structures replaced the earlier industry structures during the...