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The Durham County Record Office holds the archives for County Durham and the Borough of Darlington. The service is run by Durham County Council . [ 1 ] The archives were held at County Hall, Durham until 2024 when the service moved to a new building which is part of The Story at Mount Oswald , South Road, Durham.
Geer Cemetery (1876–1939), is an African-American cemetery located on Colonial Street between McGill Place and Camden Avenue in northeast Durham, North Carolina. It has also been known as City Cemetery, Old City Cemetery, East Durham Cemetery, and Mason Cemetery. [1] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. [2]
A site for the facility at Far Winterton, north of Sedgefield, was purchased in 1855. [1] It was designed by the architect John Howison, the surveyor for the county of Durham, as a three-storey corridor plan asylum built in the Elizabethan style with 300 beds for inmates, along with a chapel and superintendent's quarters. [1]
Beechwood Cemetery is a city-owned cemetery in Durham, North Carolina, established in 1924 or 1926. Maplewood, the city's other public cemetery was historically white while Beechwood is historically black stemming from the city's segregation at their inception. [1] It is the burial location of key Black figures in Durham's history. [2] [3]
The Durham County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting Saturday night at a popular fast-food chain. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., deputies responded to reports of a shooting at the ...
Isaac Monroe Carpenter was born on March 11, 1920, in Durham, North Carolina, the son of Thomas E. Carpenter and Lucy A. Howard. He attended Durham High School and Duke University. He never married. Carpenter died in Durham on November 17, 1998, at age 78. [7] [8] He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham.
The pediatric department also later offered specialized programs such as the Crippled Children's Clinic—a joint effort between Lincoln and Duke Hospital's orthopedic departments. In 1937, the infant death rate for babies under one year of age in Durham County was reduced to 52.2 per 1000 live births among whites and 94.2 per 1000 among blacks ...
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