This way to Lakewood Amusement Park....

Many thanks to reader H.E., who alerted me that, courtesy of our NCDOT-denuded streets downtown, cobblestones and streetcar tracks were now visible along Kent Street. Many readers will know/remember that this route extended west from downtown along Chapel Hill St., turning southwest at Kent on its way to Lakewood Amusement Park at the end of the line. See this post I did ~3 years ago for a map I made of the rail lines in Durham during the early 20th century.

Very exciting to have these tracks see the light of day again. I'm hoping that these will be reburied, unlike the ones pulled up downtown during our streetscape work - it makes me glad to know that this archeological stratum is preserved beneath the asphalt.


Tracks and cobblestones on Kent St., 07.24.10


Tracks and cobblestones on Kent St., 07.24.10

Below, the curve at Kent and Morehead....


07.24.10

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