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Golden Belt Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 116 contributing buildings in a mixed industrial, commercial, and residential section of Durham.
It includes four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and six contributing structures. They include the Greek Revival style Chambers–Morgan House (1829); blacksmith shop, "light house", car shed (1930s), two corn cribs (c. 1910), barn (c. 1910), cemetery (1830–1866), well, pump house (c. 1940), two ponds, and the farm landscape ...
The Folk School has more than 800 week-long and weekend classes year-round in traditional and contemporary arts, including blacksmithing, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography, storytelling, and writing. [6] The 300-acre campus includes a history museum, craft shop, nature trails, lodging, campground, and cafeteria. [7]
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 the city.
Durham was a “raw whistle-stop village” along the Great North Carolina Central Rail Road that transformed into one of the largest tobacco cities in the United States. [1] The Durham City Bull became one of the better-known tobacco trademarks with the help of the big players in the industry, W. T. Blackwell and Company and Julian Carr. [2]
Durham Hosiery Mills Dye House: January 22, 2014 : 708-710 Gilbert St. Durham: 24: Durham Hosiery Mills No. 2-Service Printing Company Building: Durham Hosiery Mills No. 2-Service Printing Company Building: November 27, 1985
Durham's downtown, once neglected for sprawl, is quickly becoming the city's most popular destination. Today, historic Parrish Street, is at the center of downtown revitalization. [ 54 ] The Parrish Street Project was recently formed as an initiative of the City of Durham to honor the history of Black Wall Street and spur economic ...
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 to the 1950s.