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Durham NC Historic Sites

Durham NC Historic Sites

Durham NC Historic Sites
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Enlarge	Bennett Place State Historic Site Site of the Largest Surrender of the American Civil War Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina User Rating: Description of this Durham Attraction: On April 26, 1865 General Joseph E. Johnston and General William T. Sherman met at the Bennett Farm to finalize the surrender of Confederate soldiers still active in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It was the largest surrender of the American Civil War. The Bennett Farm has been reconstructed with guided tours daily, and special living history events and lectures throughout the year. The Visitor Center has a museum gallery with original Civil War artifacts and personal belongings of the Bennett Family, theater which shows the short film "Dawn of Peace", research library, and a gift shop. Nature trails and picnic tables are also located on site.
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Enlarge	Duke Homestead Historic Site Home of Washington Duke & Beginning of Tobacco Industry Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: Home of Confederate Civil War veteran, Washington Duke, this 19th century tobacco farm was the beginning of the pipe tobacco industry in Durham. The original Duke home and farm buildings are available for visitors to tour. An extensive museum of the tobacco industry and agriculture in Durham is located in the visitor center. This historic site is a designated National Historic Landmark.
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Enlarge	Duke Homestead State Historic Site 1852 home and farm of the Washington Duke family Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: At Duke Homestead, visitors can tour the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. Duke's sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world. The Dukes became one of the wealthiest families in the country at the turn of the 20th century and now lend their name to Duke University, Duke Energy, and the Duke Endowment. Duke Homestead offers an orientation film twice an hour, an extensive tobacco museum, and guided tours of the surviving historical structures on the grounds. Among these structures are early Bright Leaf tobacco barns, Washington Duke's first and third factories, and his 1852 homestead.
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Enlarge	Historic Stagville Plantation Largest plantation in the state of North Carolina Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina User Rating: Description of this Durham Attraction: The plantation holdings of the Bennehan-Cameron families were among the largest in pre-Civil War North Carolina, and among the largest of the entire South. By 1860, the family owned almost 30,000 acres and nearly 900 slaves. Stagville, a plantation of several thousand acres, lay at the center of this enormous estate.
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Enlarge	Maplewood Cemetery Historic Durham City Cemetery Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: This historic Durham city cemetery is where many of Durham's founding fathers were laid to rest to include the Durham family, Dr. James Cain, and Jule Carr. More than 100 Confederate soldiers who served the Southern cause are buried here as well.
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Enlarge	American Tobacco Campus Former Lucky Strike cigarette factory and former headquarters of American Tobacco Company being transformed into a one-million-sq.-ft. adaptive reuse district, including restaurants, shops, an amphitheatre, and on-site parking garages. Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: Former Lucky Strike cigarette factory and former headquarters of American Tobacco Company being transformed into a one-million-sq.-ft. retail/residential/office campus—one of the most ambitious, largest, and farthest-reaching historic preservation and renovation projects in the history of N.C. Phase one is complete and includes restaurants, shops, an amphitheatre, and on-site parking garages.
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Enlarge	Bullington Warehouse Just north of Corporation St. at N. Duke St., this 1927 National Register site was the last of the brick tobacco warehouses to be built in Downtown Durham. Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: Just north of Corporation St. at N. Duke St., this 1927 National Register site was the last of the brick tobacco warehouses to be built in Downtown Durham.
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Enlarge	Historic Durham Athletic Park Film location for the movie "Bull Durham." The Bulls now play a mile south in Durham Bulls Athletic Park, a facility which captures the brick texture of historic Durham yet remains state-of-the-art. Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: Former home (1926-94) of the famous Durham Bulls and film location for the movie "Bull Durham," starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins. The Bulls now play a mile south in Durham Bulls Athletic Park, a facility which captures the brick texture of historic Durham yet remains fully state-of-the-art.
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Enlarge	James E. Shepard House Built in 1925 for N.C. Central University founder James E. Shepard. A grant from the National Park Service and private donations helped to fund a renovation of the property, which displays interactive exhibits on the life and work of Dr. Shepard. Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina Description of this Durham Attraction: Built in 1925 for N.C. Central University founder James E. Shepard. Served as the official residence of the university's presidents through the early 1980s and hosted such luminaries as W.E.B. DuBois, Phillip Randolph, Marian Anderson, and Mary McLeod Bethune. A grant from the National Park Service and private donations helped to fund a $685,000 renovation of the property, which displays interactive exhibits on the life and work of Dr. Shepard and serves as a space for small gatherings.
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