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Washington Duke was born on December 18, 1820, in eastern Orange County, North Carolina, in what is today the township of Bahama in Durham County.The eighth of ten children of Taylor Duke (c. 1770 – 1830) and Dicey Jones (born c. 1780), Washington worked as a tenant farmer until he married Mary Caroline Clinton (1825–1847) in 1842.
The rezoning adds Duke’s 155-acre Central Campus to the university’s custom zoning district, a widely permissive category created for Duke and N.C. Central universities about two decades ago.
The 2001 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships were contested at the 63rd annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament for determining the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf at the Division I level in the United States. [1] The tournament was held at the Duke University Golf Club in Durham, North Carolina.
The Sanctuary is going down the path traveled by a rash of closed or closing golf courses, including Seven Hills and Sanctuary this year, Skyland Pines in 2021, and Tam O'Shanter in 2018.
Hope Valley was the first full-fledged country club community in the suburbs of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It is developed around an 18-hole Donald Ross golf course. Created in 1925-26 just before the stock market crash of 1929, Hope Valley remained a unique rural colony until after World War II. Well outside the city limits Hope ...
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Hamm is best known as a golf course designer of courses in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and New York. Since designing his first 9-hole course in 1949, he has designed and oversaw the building of over 60 courses. In 1955, Hamm helped build the Duke University Golf Course in Durham, North Carolina, with Robert Trent Jones.
The Douglas M. and Grace Knight House, also known as Knight House, is a Modernist-style mansion in Durham, North Carolina.The house, designed by Alden B. Dow, previously served as the official residence for presidents of Duke University and is now used by the university as an event space, conference facility, and guest house.