Listed on the National
Register of Historic Places
"Not afraid of flavor!"
Take a virtual tour through OWD's history or see photographs of the neighborhood today.
What is the Old West Durham
Neighborhood Association?
We are a group of neighborhood residents working together to strengthen the sense of community in Old West Durham and to preserve and enhance the quality of life in OWD. Our neighborhood stretches from Broad Street west to Hillandale Road and from Englewood Avenue south to the Durham Freeway. The area around Erwin Mills, Ninth Street and the old mill village is listed on the National Register of Historic Districts.
OWDNA has been honored by the Historic Preservation Society of Durham, Preservation North Carolina, the Library of Congress, the Herald-Sun's "Durham Grit" award, and the Independent Weekly's "Citizen Award" (for "tireless dedication to making our community a better place to live").
Any resident of Old West Durham can join and support their neighborhood association by sending a $5 check (made out to "OWDNA") to Melissa Juniper at 2407 Green Street, Durham 27705. If you have any questions about Old West Durham, please contact OWDNA President Catherine Hart at hart@owdna.org.
Old West Durham -- everything's here!
We are Wimpy's Grill & Mongolian Grill, Ninth Street & Gin Street, EK Powe & Erwin Mills, East Campus & West Main, Regulator Books & Piedmont Laureates, Locopops & Fisher Graphic, Parizade & Wellspring Cafe, Cosmic Cantina & Tip Top Bikes, Blue Light & Blue Corn, Pride Parades & American Dance Festival, Dain's Place & Elmo's Diner, One World Market & International Delights, Saint Joseph's & Blacknall, West Durham Tire & Couch Oil, Francesca's Ice Cream & Madhatter's Bakery, Durham Freeway & Buck Dean's bungalow, Italian stonecutters & old brick yards, John D. Loudermilk & Tobacco Road, Don Schlitz & The Gambler, Cedar Hill Cemetery & Mill Hill, block parties & home tours, freight trains & fire trucks, front porches & vegetable gardens, quiet walks & shady streets, old mill houses & sidewalk conversations, neighbors & friends. We are community, we are home.
Last updated on: July 11, 2012
Current OWDNA webmaster: Tom Clark
Past OWDNA webspinner: Pam Spaulding
©1998-2012 by the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association. Durham, North Carolina, USA. All rights reserved.
"For each
home ground we need new maps, living maps, stories and poems, photographs and paintings, essays and songs. We need to know where we are, so that we may dwell in our place with a full heart."
-- Scott Russell Sanders
"...use the Internet not as an on-ramp to the
information superhighway but as a way to help you learn a little
more about your street..."
--Time
magazine