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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 4 records found where LC Subject Heading is Land tenure -- North Carolina -- Durham County
	Chas. Emerson’s North Carolina tobacco belt directory 1886 (Excerpt) This excerpt from the 1886 directory lists Durham County's land owners. Each entry includes the landowner's name, the location of the nearest post office, and the number of acres the individual owned. Individuals with African American heritage are denoted by an asterisk (*). The directory identifies 16 post offices in Chapel Hill, Dayton, Durham, Fish Dam, Flat River, Hillsboro, Kunkadora, Luster, Lyndover, McCown, Morrisville, Mount Tirzah, Orange Factory, Red Mountain, Staggville, and South Lowel. Advertisers include John L. Markham; Robertson, Lloyd and Co.; and the Durham Recorder.
	Map of the town of North Durham: property of B. L. Duke and its relative position to Durham, North Carolina An 1890 map showing the property owned by Brodie Leonidas Duke in Durham, North Carolina, just east of Trinity College, in an area now identified as Trinity Park. The map also provides names of downtown streets, shows the location of Bobbin & Shuttle Mills, fertilizer factory, cotton factory and railroad lines. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch or [ca.1:4800].
	Map of the town of Durham, North Carolina:showing the property of the Durham Consolidated Land and Improvement Company This 1890 map published by the Durham Consolidated Land & Improvement Company indicates its property holdings north and west of Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina, in areas now known as Trinity Heights, Walltown, and Old West Durham. Contains an advertisement with illustration promoting Trinity College as well as a letter by Richard H. Wright, secretary of the Company, extolling the virtues of Durham's business climate. In 1890, the Durham Consolidated Land & Improvement Company published this map to indicate its property holdings north and west of Trinity College in an area now known as Trinity Heights, Walltown, and Old West Durham. The map also provides some information about streets near the Blackwell Tobacco Factory, now Downtown Durham. It also features an advertisement promoting Trinity College as well as the virtues of Durham's business climate.
	What are Negroes doing in Durham? Essay by Clement Richardson in the Southern Workman highlighting the achievements of the African American community in Durham in the early 1910s. Richardson focuses on the contributions of black entrepreneurs and professionals including E. R. Merrick, Robert Fitzgerald, Stuart Lynn Warren, John Merrick, Dr. A. M. (Aaron McDuffie), R. H. Clegg, W. G. Pearson, J. S. Scarborough, E. W. Cannady, Dr. F. D. Page, Peyton H. Smith, P. W. Dawkins, Jr. and others.

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