John O'daniel Hosiery Mill / Farmers' Exchange Scanned from 1924 Durham City of Industry book. Another of my favorite buildings in Durham, the John O'Daniel Hosiery Mill building, was built at 801 Gilbert St. in the late 1910s as the Paragon Hosiery Mill. It changed names rather quickly thereafter to become the Bowling-Emory Knitting Mill before being acquired in 1919 by Julian S. Carr as a... Durham Hosiery Mills Dye House Built as a central Dye House for the Durham Hosiery Mill Company in 1921-1922, 708 Gilbert closed during the Great Depression (1934,) but reopened in 1941-1942 as part of the Durham Farmers Mutual Exchange - serving as a seed cleaning and inoculation facility and "service store" Farmers Exchange Cold Storage / Freezer Lockers 1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") The Cold Storage and Freezer Locker Plant in Durham offers all services needed for the complete processing and storage of meat for farmers and others. Processing starts with the dressed carcasses, which farmers bring to the plant or which the plant has bought for those wanting meat. For a... Farmers Mutual Exchange - Maintenance Garage 1956 07.03.13 900 Mallard Ave. - Farmers Exchange Hatchery 1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") Farmers Exchange Chick Hatchery has a two-fold purposeāto provide a cash market for hatching eggs produced by farmer patrons with specialized flocks and to hatch the thriftiest type chicks for either broilers or layers. Growing from 3600 chicks hatched each week in 1940 to the production of... Farmers Exchange - Poultry Plant 1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") " A Poultry Plant to process and market large amounts of poultry was one of the first operations started by the Exchange to give local farmers a source of income other than tobacco. When the Department began operating in 1931, there was very little poultry being grown in this section - not... Durham Stables / Farmer's Exchange Looking north from Gilbert St., 1970s. (Durham HAI) Yet another one of my favorite buildings in Durham, the Durham stables were built around 1925 by the City of Durham for the teams of horses utilized in the construction of streets. The building replaced the earlier City Stables, located on the southwest corner of Pine and E. Pettigrew Streets in... Central Carolina Farmer's Exchange - New Feed Mill (Photo by Gary Kueber ) The modern CCFX feed mill was built on the site of the former Durham Gas Company in 1965 - either replacing or supplementing the capacity of the old feed mill operation behind (to the north of) 801 GIlbert. The gas plant had been located on the site previously - since 1905. An early picture of the gas plant, below: (Courtesy... Add new comment Log in or register to post comments.
John O'daniel Hosiery Mill / Farmers' Exchange Scanned from 1924 Durham City of Industry book. Another of my favorite buildings in Durham, the John O'Daniel Hosiery Mill building, was built at 801 Gilbert St. in the late 1910s as the Paragon Hosiery Mill. It changed names rather quickly thereafter to become the Bowling-Emory Knitting Mill before being acquired in 1919 by Julian S. Carr as a...
Durham Hosiery Mills Dye House Built as a central Dye House for the Durham Hosiery Mill Company in 1921-1922, 708 Gilbert closed during the Great Depression (1934,) but reopened in 1941-1942 as part of the Durham Farmers Mutual Exchange - serving as a seed cleaning and inoculation facility and "service store"
Farmers Exchange Cold Storage / Freezer Lockers 1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") The Cold Storage and Freezer Locker Plant in Durham offers all services needed for the complete processing and storage of meat for farmers and others. Processing starts with the dressed carcasses, which farmers bring to the plant or which the plant has bought for those wanting meat. For a...
900 Mallard Ave. - Farmers Exchange Hatchery 1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") Farmers Exchange Chick Hatchery has a two-fold purposeāto provide a cash market for hatching eggs produced by farmer patrons with specialized flocks and to hatch the thriftiest type chicks for either broilers or layers. Growing from 3600 chicks hatched each week in 1940 to the production of...
Farmers Exchange - Poultry Plant 1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") " A Poultry Plant to process and market large amounts of poultry was one of the first operations started by the Exchange to give local farmers a source of income other than tobacco. When the Department began operating in 1931, there was very little poultry being grown in this section - not...
Durham Stables / Farmer's Exchange Looking north from Gilbert St., 1970s. (Durham HAI) Yet another one of my favorite buildings in Durham, the Durham stables were built around 1925 by the City of Durham for the teams of horses utilized in the construction of streets. The building replaced the earlier City Stables, located on the southwest corner of Pine and E. Pettigrew Streets in...
Central Carolina Farmer's Exchange - New Feed Mill (Photo by Gary Kueber ) The modern CCFX feed mill was built on the site of the former Durham Gas Company in 1965 - either replacing or supplementing the capacity of the old feed mill operation behind (to the north of) 801 GIlbert. The gas plant had been located on the site previously - since 1905. An early picture of the gas plant, below: (Courtesy...
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