Downtown Durham, NC- Great Jones Street to Blackwell Street

This walk takes an interest in the history of the buildings and businesses in a small section of downtown Durham.

Walk start: corner of Great Jones Street and Main Street

Walk end: Durham Bulls Athletic Park on Blackwell Street

Before or after your walk you may want to visit some of the

archival photographs and history of this area on the

Endangered Durham blog.

427-431 Main Street / Joe and Jo’s

Blackwell’s Durham Tobacco/ American Tobacco Company

I've lived in Durham for just over a year now so I am still learning about this city. Please post in the comments section any comments, corrections or alternate perspectives to those mentioned in this talk and walk.

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Pittsboro, North Carolina walk

My friend Jen and I made the first walk in Pittsboro, NC. When I started this project I thought the first walk would be in Durham, but sometimes its best to let life take you where it will, and we were in Pittsboro talking and walking.

There are some things to work out yet with this project still so consider this a sketch.

Walk start: Downtown Pittsboro on Hillsborough Street, between Salisbury Street and Hank Street. The walk continues down Hillsborough Street before looping back to Hillsborough Street.

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The historical markers mentioned are shown here.

Things left for future walks: Find John Owens's grave