Historian, bibliographer, collector of North Carolina books and manuscripts, professor
at Trinity College, 1891-93. Grave 6 mi. N.E. — — Map (db m218165) HM
Contains about 120 graves on hilltop known as "Barbee Mountain", site of Barbee family plantation; engraved headstones for William Barbee, son of "Old Kit", and wife, Gaskey. William was a member of the House of Commons in 1819, and a merchant. . . . — — Map (db m171942) HM
Farmer, blacksmith and donor of 221 acres, first and largest land tract, to UNC in 1792. Stones mark probably site of 18th century Barbee residence, which was recycled as heartpine paneling for library of Dubose House. One of Kit's . . . — — Map (db m171941) HM
(Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to . . . — — Map (db m223114) HM
The "South Garden" was created in 1933 by Mr. & Mrs. David St. Pierre Dubose. They are buried in the family cemetery below the garden. — — Map (db m171944) HM
Est. in 1922 by African Americans. Hosted many American Tennis Assoc. tournaments. Durham Committee on Negro Affairs org. here, 1935. — — Map (db m210852) HM
Durham was established in the 1850's when the North Carolina Railroad extended its tracks westward across the state. The new town became the destination for farmers in the area to bring their tobacco crops for sale and transport to the factories. . . . — — Map (db m126202) HM
(Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in . . . — — Map (db m14710) HM
During the 1920s - 1940s, Durham was home to African American musicians whose work defined a distinctive regional style. Blues artists often played in the surrounding Hayti community and downtown tobacco warehouse district. Prominent among these . . . — — Map (db m219801) HM
Birthplace of J. B. and B. N. Duke, tobacco and hydroelectric magnates, philanthropists (Duke University, the Duke Endowment), is 1 mi. S.W. — — Map (db m218176) HM
(Preface):The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to . . . — — Map (db m219797) HM
Hillside High opened as a school for black students in 1921 at Pine and Umstead streets on land donated by John Sprint Hill. It moved in 1950 to a larger building, the former Whitted Junior High School, at this location. In 1996, Hillside High . . . — — Map (db m126192) HM
Negro educational and religious leader. Founder of a college (1910), now N.C. Central University, its president to 1947. Grave 1˝ miles S.E. — — Map (db m219796) HM
Opened in 1980 as state-supported, residential high school. Campus was site of Watts Hospital (1909-1976), built by Geo. Washington Watts. — — Map (db m219793) HM
North Carolina’s Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the . . . — — Map (db m219798) HM
The house was built in 1925 for Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and first president of North Carolina Central University, and his family, with funds collected until his death in 1947. The State of North Carolina purchased the home in 1949, and it . . . — — Map (db m126191) HM
Colonial trading route. dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina passed nearby. — — Map (db m211211) HM
(Preface) The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to . . . — — Map (db m45346) HM
(Preface, upper left) : The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. . . . — — Map (db m3635) HM
Farm home of James Bennett, where Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to Gen. William T. Sherman, April 26, 1865. Johnston’s surrender followed Lee’s at Appomattox by 17 days and ended the Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia, . . . — — Map (db m160175) HM
On April 17, 1865, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston met on this section of the Raleigh to Hillsboro Road at the home of James and Nancy Bennett to negotiate a peace settlement to end the war. Staff officers, . . . — — Map (db m125325) HM
North Carolina’s Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the . . . — — Map (db m210746) HM
Erected by the Rotary Club of Durham as its first community gift in November, 1916. Originally located in Rotary Park in downtown Durham; Relocated to Bennet Place Memorial Park in 1924. Refurbished and rededicated by the Rotary Club of Durham on . . . — — Map (db m125324) HM
The original Bennett House, which burned on October 12, 1921, faced east on the old Hillsboro Road; the road ran in 1865 as now, south of the building. The structure consisted of one room downstairs and a small room over it; in the former Generals . . . — — Map (db m58326) HM
One hundred feet east of this spot in the Bennett House General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General William T. Sherman met at noon, April 17, 1865, to discuss terms of a proposed surrender. They met in this house again on April 18 and wrote and . . . — — Map (db m58396) HM
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, the Mutual Building and Loan Association and North Carolina College were model financial and educational institutions devoted to entrepreneurship and self-help in Durham. — — Map (db m210737) HM
Since 1898, White Rock Baptist Church, St. Joseph A.M.E. Church, Stanford L. Warren Library, Lincoln Hospital, John Avery Boys and Girls Club, North Carolina College, and Durham Public Schools are all connected historically to black businesses on . . . — — Map (db m210739) HM
In the early decades of the 1900's Durham acquired national reputation for entrepreneurship. Businesses owned by African Americans lined Parrish Street. Among them were N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (moved to Parrish, 1906), led by John Merrick. . . . — — Map (db m218168) HM
"Mutt" and Sara Evans were civic, business and faith leaders during Durham's fast-changing, mid-20th century decades. Elected Mayor for a record six terms, Mutt Evans served from 1951 to 1963, holding together a diverse coalition of interests . . . — — Map (db m218170) HM
John Merrick's 1898 admonition, "Let us think more of our employment" guided the development of Parrish Street as the center city address of many ambitious bankers, doctors, lawyers and accountants whose investments in a growing African American . . . — — Map (db m218171) HM
This simplified Art Deco building was first used as a clothing store.
From 1928 until 1978 it housed the Five Points Loan Company and Pawnshop. — — Map (db m218217) HM
Roll of the Honored Dead
Andrews, Junie
Blame, Carl
Brafford, Albert
Clark, Willard
Cole, Norman
Cullon, James
Denny, Hoyt
Ewing, Arthur
Faucette, John M.
Ferrell, G.G.
Fuller, Roy H.
Haithcock, Sidney
Hamelt, George D. . . . — — Map (db m126187) WM
Through strategic leadership and funding since 1935, Black entrepreneurs on Parrish Street are active participants in the founding of the Durham Business and Professional Chain, the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Black newspapers . . . — — Map (db m218173) HM
[Front]
The Confederate States of America
22 February 1862
Deo Vindice
In Memory of
"The Boys who
Wore the Gray"
1861 - 1865
[Left side]
Dedicated
May 10th 1924
[Right side]
This memorial . . . — — Map (db m210744) WM
Member of the General Assembly of the State
Mayor of Durham
Chairman of the Commissioners of the County
Justice of the Peace for Fifty Years
His life was given to the service of his neighbors to whom he was ever a symbol of . . . — — Map (db m210741) HM
In honor of those who
answered their country's call
in World War II
the Durham Exchange Club
dedicates this memorial
[Names listed]
"This prayer we make in penitence
that all who pass by here may sense
the costliness . . . — — Map (db m126186) WM
Church building designed in the Rural English Gothic style by the noted Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram. It stands on the site of the original frame church built in 1880.
Downtown Durham Historic District — — Map (db m126188) HM
Named for tobacco tycoon E.J. Parrish and his father. Parrish Street was the site of his expansive 1879 warehouse.
Early tobacco entrepreneurs E.J. Parrish, James B. Duke, Julian Carr, John Green, and W.T. Blackwell transformed Durham's . . . — — Map (db m210748) HM
[East side]
In honor of those 39
brave heroes from
Durham County who
died while serving the
United States of America
and mankind by
defending freedom for
all mankind in Vietnam.
Dedicated May 30, 1994
Vietnam . . . — — Map (db m210740) WM
When North Carolina became the last state to secede from the Union in May 1861, Washington Duke’s small farm and homestead here consisted of more than 300 acres. He grew typical crops such as corn, wheat, oats, and sweet potatoes, and had raised . . . — — Map (db m37834) HM
North Carolina’s Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the . . . — — Map (db m37830) HM
In Loving Memory of
Beulah C. Bowens Fuller
1918-1997
Wilson, North Carolina
Class of 1940
North Carolina College for Negroes at Durham
A graduate of Darden High School in Wilson, North Carolina and the first in her family to . . . — — Map (db m126198) HM
Holy Cross Church, established in Durham in 1939 by the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, was among North Carolina's earliest African-American Catholic congregations. A rectory was built in 1942 with one room serving as the chapel, and this . . . — — Map (db m218218) HM
Administration and classroom centerpiece for New Georgian Style campus of North Carolina College for Negroes. Designed by the local architectural firm, Atwood & Nash.
North Carolina Central University Historic District — — Map (db m126200) HM
