Durham 2008 Official Visitors Guide - Where Good Things Happen - (Page 7) HISTORY HISTORIC PLACES & DISPLAYS Bennett Place State Historic Site ��F 4409 Bennett Memorial Rd, 383-4345, www.bennettplace.nchistoricsites.org Location of the largest troop surrender that ended the Civil War. Includes re-enactments, reconstructed farmhouse, outbuildings, interpretive center, and museum. Open Tu-Sa, 9am-5pm. Historic Stagville ��F 5828 Old Oxford Hwy, 620-0120, www.historicstagvillefoundation.org Once among the South’s largest plantation holdings. Features an 18th-century house, slave quarters, and a unique great barn at this historic site dedicated to preservation and African-American cultural, historic studies. Open Tu-Sa, 10am-4pm. Key to Abbreviations � Must-See � Kid-Friendly F Free Admission Historic Woolworth’s Counter Carolina Theatre �� 309 W Morgan St, 560-3040, Downtown Durham, www.carolinatheatre.org The renovated 1926 Beaux Arts building includes magnificent Fletcher Hall for live performances and two adjacent cinemas, showing art films. The Carolina Theatre hosts performances of Durham’s symphony and opera company, as well as the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and NC Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. See ad page 11. 1801 Fayetteville St, NCCU, William Jones Building, 5306100, www.nccu.edu The sit-in as a form of civil protest was pioneered in Durham during the 1950s-60s. It was at a sit-in in Durham’s Woolworth that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first embraced the practice. A portion of the original lunch counter, its seats, and pie rack are now preserved in the William Jones Building at North Carolina Central University. �F THINGS TO SEE & DO Durham Fast Facts Population North Carolina Central University Downtown Durham Historic District Downtown Durham, Downtown Loop North Carolina’s first commercial district on the National Register of Historic Places. Includes Main Street, government buildings, the central business district, Durham Civic Center Complex, and the Brightleaf District, anchored by namesake Brightleaf Square. Learn more with the Downtown Durham Walking Tour available at the official Durham Visitor Information Center, 101 E Morgan St. �F 1801 Fayetteville St, 530-6100, www.nccu.edu Founded in 1910, NCCU is the nation’s first publiclysupported liberal arts college for African-Americans. The 103-acre, Georgian-Revival campus features a bronze statue of founder Dr. James E. Shepard, the NCCU Art Museum, one of the nation’s highest rated law schools for women, and the L.T. Walker Complex, named for United States Olympic Committee President LeRoy Walker. Currently 8,383 students are enrolled at NCCU. �F 479,624 Durham MSA (est.) 257,947 Durham County (est.) 218,179 Durham City (est.) 112,816 Dwelling Units (2007) $46,636 Median Household Income (2006) $16,613,700,461 City Total Assessed Value 7 Patterson’s Mill Country Store, Inc. ��F Duke Homestead State Historic Site ��F and Tobacco Museum 2828 Duke Homestead Rd, 477-5498, www.dukehomestead.nchistoricsites.org Retrace the beginnings of the modern-day tobacco industry at this National Historic Landmark where Washington Duke started his successful tobacco empire. Duke family’s mid-1800s home, tobacco barns, original factory, and museum showcase tobacco history and production and pioneering marketing strategies. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Open Tu-Sa, 9am-5 pm. 5109 Farrington Rd between NC Hwy 54 & Old Chapel Hill Rd Preserved, turn-of-the-nineteenth-century country store and doctor’s office/pharmacy. Features displays of mercantile and pharmaceutical Americana, tobacco marketing memorabilia, antiques, and collectibles. Open Tu-Sa, 10am5pm; Su, 2pm-5pm. $22,059,658,178 County Total Assessed Value $17,800,000,000 Durham County Gross County Product (2006) St. Joseph’s Performance Hall at the ��F Hayti Heritage Center Duke Sports Hall of Fame ��F 302 Whitford Dr, 613-7500, www.durham-nc.com/ planners/group_tours/duke_sports.php Decades of Duke University athletic achievements showcased with visual and audio exhibits, theatre, and trophies of national championships. Open M-F, 8am-5pm. Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St, 683-1709, (800) 845-9835, www.hayti.org Restored former sanctuary of St. Joseph’s AME Church, one of America’s first autonomous African-American churches dating back to 1869. This 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque building includes stained glass windows honoring patrons Washington Duke, Julian Carr, W.T. Blackwell, and Eugene Morehead. On the National Register of Historic Places. Open M-F, 10am-5pm; Sa, 10am-3pm; call for Su schedule. 182,503 Total Jobs 10,037,424 RDU Air Passengers (Arriving & Departing in 2007) Sources: Durham City/County Planning, Durham County Tax Administration, RDU International Airport, City of Durham Economic & Workforce Development, Global Insight, U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey Duke University West Central Durham, 684-8111, www.duke.edu One of the nation’s top universities, founded as Trinity College and renamed in 1924 after an endowment by James Buchanan Duke. Includes Neo-Gothic West Campus, Central Campus, and Neo-Georgian East Campus, site of a former racetrack and pleasure resort. Highlights include Duke University Chapel, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Cameron Indoor Stadium, 7,700-acre Duke Forest, Duke Lemur Center, Nasher Museum of Art, and Duke University Medical Center. Campus tours conducted M-F at 11:30am and 2pm. �F Duke University Chapel ��F History comes alive at Durham’s historic places and indigenous festivals and events. Paul Liggitt/Durham/DCVB Chapel Dr, Duke West Campus, 684-2572, www.chapel.duke.edu Built in 1930, the, cathedral-like centerpiece of Duke’s West Campus soars 210 feet high. Represents one of the last great collegiate Gothic projects in the United States and features the Flentrop organ (5,200 pipes), 50-bell carillon, and stained-glass windows. Numerous chapel services and recitals each week. Call for details. Open Su-Sa, 8am-10pm. Sunday worship services at 11am. www.durham-nc.com http://www.historicstagvillefoundation.org http://www.bennettplace.nchistoricsites.org http://www.nccu.edu http://www.carolinatheatre.org http://www.nccu.edu http://www.dukehomestead.nchistoricsites.org http://www.hayti.org http://www.durham-nc.com/planners/group_tours/duke_sports.php http://www.durham-nc.com/planners/group_tours/duke_sports.php http://www.duke.edu http://www.chapel.duke.edu http://www.durham-nc.com
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