Historical Calendar Durham North Carolina

Author : Educator Company
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ISBN 13 : 9781332262793
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Hand-Book of Durham, North Carolina written by Educator Company and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hand-Book of Durham, North Carolina: A Brief and Accurate Description of a Prosperous and Growing Southern Manufacturing Town Durham is located on the main line of the North Carolina Division of the Southern Railway system (formerly known as the Richmond & Danville), and is the terminus of the Lynchburg & Durham Division of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, the Oxford & Clarksville Railroad and the Durham & Northern Division of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Is twenty-six miles west of Raleigh, the State's Capital, and twelve miles northeast of Chapel Hill, where is located the popular and progressive State University. Durham is the center of what is known throughout the commercial world as the "Bright Tobacco Belt" of North Carolina. It has a population of 8000, and is the first town of the State in manufacturing importance. Was incorporated in 1869 when its inhabitants numbered no more than, and owes its prosperity in a great measure to the just fame of its excellent brands of smoking tobacco and cigarettes, which is worldwide, her products finding a market in every civilized and semi-civilized quarter of the globe. Lying in the famous Piedmont region, its climate is equable and invigorating and the health of its citizens excellent. It is surrounded by a thrifty population of prosperous farmers and is the market for a dozen contiguous counties of wonderful fertility and resources. The town was named in honor of Dr. Bartlett Durham, who donated the land upon which the warehouse and depot of the North Carolina Railroad is located. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.