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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 ...
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 ...
The Durham Performing Arts Center (often called the DPAC) opened November 30, 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas at a cost of $48 million. [ 1] The DPAC hosts over 200 performances a year including touring Broadway productions, high-profile concert and comedy events, family shows and the American Dance Festival.
Hayti (pronounced "HAY-tie"), also called Hayti District, is the historic African-American community that is now part of the city of Durham, North Carolina. [1] It was founded as an independent black community shortly after the American Civil War on the southern edge of Durham by freedmen coming to work in tobacco warehouses and related jobs in ...
NC chipmaker Wolfspeed to close Durham factory as company seeks more cost savings. Brian Gordon. August 21, 2024 at 2:58 PM. The Durham semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed plans to shut its 150 ...
About 75,000 fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles were registered in North Carolina this fall, five times as many as in 2018, and manufacturers are coming out with new EV models every year.
The mall is home to many firsts for the area, including North Carolina's first Nordstrom and Apple Store. Other stores that were new to the Research Triangle area included Aveda, California Pizza Kitchen, Hollister Co., and Pottery Barn Kids. [4] The Streets at Southpoint was the first mall to come to the Durham area in nearly three decades ...
Investors appeared to respond favorably to Wolfspeed’s decision to close its Durham production factory as the company’s share price rose 9% after the market closed Wednesday. In another bit of ...