tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638638573157427903.post5013199813817161819..comments2023-10-01T03:19:01.826-07:00Comments on Durham Maps: Trinity Park/ Markham propertyMitch Fraashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759749960182851187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638638573157427903.post-8711701889242288332008-08-28T10:33:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:33:00.000-07:00Another great post!Here's a 1920 street map of the...Another great post!<BR/><BR/>Here's a 1920 street map of the area that also shows the City Limit cutting across at a diagonal... http://www.owdna.org/1920map.htm<BR/><BR/>You can see how Green Street takes a jog at Watts St -- right at the City line (Green was called "B Street" in West Durham).<BR/><BR/>Note how Markham Ave (A Street) didn't go through to Broad St (7th St). It's broken up at Clarendon (6th St). The Trinity Park Prep School was located here. Bivins Hall (named after the school's first headmaster) is the last remaining building... http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/schelp/js091.php<BR/><BR/>Several Italian stonecutters who helped build Duke Chapel and Duke Hospital lived nearby on Sixth St... http://www.owdna.org/stonecutters.htm<BR/><BR/>To avoid City taxes, Erwin Mills objected to annexation until the 1920s. And, since City water wasn't provided, the mill village had outhouses until 1925. <BR/><BR/>Because other parts of Durham already shared some of the street names, many of these street names were changed after West Durham was annexed into the City.<BR/><BR/>~John SchelpUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04711320703106874575noreply@blogger.com