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Downtown Durham Historic District. / 35.99500°N 78.90028°W / 35.99500; -78.90028. Downtown Durham Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 97 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Durham.
4409 Bennett Memorial Rd. 36°01′45″N 78°58′32″W. / 36.029167°N 78.975556°W / 36.029167; -78.975556 ( Bennett Place State Historic Site) Durham. Site of the largest surrender of Confederate troops during the Civil War, April 26, 1865 [ 6] 4. Mary Duke Biddle Estate. Mary Duke Biddle Estate.
September 29, 2000. The American Tobacco Historic District is a historic tobacco factory complex and national historic district located in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings and three contributing structures built by the American Tobacco Company and its predecessors and successors from 1874 ...
Visitors of the Stagville Plantation take a self-guided tour on June 17, 2021, in Durham, N.C. Stagville Plantation will have “emancipation tours” in honor of Juneteenth, a day which remembers ...
Duke Homestead - Durham, NC. The Duke Homestead was built about 1852 by Washington Duke, on a farm that was about 300 acres (120 ha) in size when the American Civil War broke out. During the war, the property was, like many others, looted by Union Army. With little left beyond a small supply of tobacco, the family shifted from tobacco farming ...
Robert Cleveland Log House. Robert Cleveland Log House. February 1, 1972. ( #72001003) Wilkes Heritage Museum, 100 E. Main St. 36°08′59″N 81°09′09″W. / 36.1496°N 81.1526°W / 36.1496; -81.1526 ( Robert Cleveland Log House) Wilkesboro. Relocated from near Pulear to near the Old Wilkes County Jail in downtown Wilkesboro in ...
August 09, 1985. West Point on the Eno is a city park and historical center covering 412 acres (1.67 km 2) in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina . Several historical structures are conserved on the site: West Point Mill - a reproduction colonial-era mill that is now a museum. Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography - located in the restored ...
Built in 1911–1912, it was the home of John Sprunt Hill (1869–1961) and his wife Annie Watts Hill (died 1940), daughter of George Washington Watts, co-founder of the American Tobacco Company. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]