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DURHAM , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Durham county, See also:North Carolina, U.S.A., in a township of the same name, 25 M. N.W. of See also:Raleigh. Pop. (1900) 6679, of whom 2241 were negroes; (1910) 18,241; of the township (1900) 19,055; (1910) 27,606. Adjacent to the city and also in the township are See also:East Durham and See also:West Durham (both unincorporated), which industrially are virtually See also:part of the city. Durham is served by the See also:Southern, the Seaboard See also:Air See also:Line, the See also:Norfolk & Western, and the Durham & Southern See also:railways, the last a See also:short line connecting at See also:Apex and Dunn, N. C., respectively with the See also:main line of the Seaboard and the See also:Atlantic See also:Coast Line railways. Durham is nearly surrounded by hills. Its streets are shaded by elms. The city-See also:DURIAN is the seat of Trinity See also:College (Methodist Episcopal, See also:South), opened in 1851 as a normal college, growing out of an See also:academy called See also:Union See also:Institute, which was established in the north-western part of See also:Randolph county in 1838 and was incorporated in 1841. In 1852 the college was empowered to See also:grant degrees; in 1856 it became the See also:property of the North Carolina See also:Conference of the Methodist Episcopal See also:Church, South; in 1859 it received its See also:present name; and in 1892 it was removed to a See also:park near Durham, included in 1901 in the corporate limits of the city. A new See also:charter was adopted in 1903, and a See also:law school was organized in 1904.

The college has received many gifts from the See also:

Duke See also:family of Durham. In 1908 its endowment and property were valued at about $1,198,400, and the number of its students was 288. Although not officially connected with the college, the South Atlantic Quarterly, founded by a patriotic society of the college and published at Durham since 1902, is controlled and edited by members of the college See also:faculty. The North Carolina See also:Journal of See also:Education and the Papers of the Trinity College See also:Historical Society also are edited by members of the college faculty. The Trinity Park school is preparatory for the college. Near the city are See also:Watts See also:hospital (for whites) and See also:Lincoln hospital (for negroes). Durham's See also:chief economic See also:interest is in the manufacture of granulated smoking See also:tobacco, for which it became noted after the See also:Civil See also:War. In the city are two large factories and See also:store houses of the See also:American Tobacco See also:Company. The tobacco See also:industry was founded by W. T. See also:Blackwell (1839–1904) and See also:Washington Duke (182o-1005). The city also manufactures cigars, cigarettes, See also:snuff, a fertilizer having tobacco dust as the See also:base, See also:cotton goods, See also:lumber, window sashes, blinds, drugs and See also:hosiery.

Durham has a large See also:

trade with the surrounding region. The See also:town of Durham was incorporated in 1869, and became the county-seat of the newly-erected county in 1881, and in 1899 was chartered as a city. Its growth is due to the tobacco and cotton See also:industries. In the See also:Bennett See also:house, at Durham Station, near the city, See also:General J. E. See also:Johnston surrendered on the 26th of See also:April 1865 the Confederate See also:army under his command to General W. T. See also:Sherman.

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