St. Josephs Street

St. Joseph Street was named for St. Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church, built on Fayetteville Street in 1892 at the site of evangelist Edian Markum's 1868 brush arbor.

The 1907 Sanborn map, the earliest to show the Hayti area as part of Durham, shows St. Joseph Street running west The street was built prior to 1907 and was absorbed into the reconfigured Lakewood Avenue during the Hayti urban renewal. It ran west for three blocks from Fayetteville Street, through a residential area to Pickett Street.

People
Edian Markham