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	Hand-book of Durham, North Carolina : a brief and accurate description of a prosperous and growing southern manufacturing town This pocket-sized handbook documents the people, businesses, social conditions, and government of Durham, North Carolina, and compares Durham's industrial and social advantages to other cities of the same size. It includes statistical records and information about Durham's government, health, real estate, taxes, buildings, streets, waterworks, fire departments, electric lights and gas, telephones, hotels, hospitals, markets, schools and colleges, churches, lodges, and social clubs. Included are lithographs of Mangum Street and Main Street and depictions of prominent buildings, such as: Bennett Place; Durham County Court House; the Fire House; Hotel Carolina; City Hospital; Durham Graded School; Trinity College's Main Building; Trinity Methodist Church; Main Street Methodist Church; the Presbyterian Church; the First and Second Baptist Church; bank buildings; the factory of the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co.; Duke Tobacco Factory; and textile factories. Portraits include Isaac N. Link, ma...
	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.
	Letter from James Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 03, 1881 James Southgate sends his daughter, Mattie Logan Southgate spending money so that she can pay her bills and purchase winter flannel. He plans to have C. B. Green and G. E. Webb forward Durham's main newspapers--the Daily Tobacco Plant and Durham Recorder-- so that she might read about the proceedings of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's Annual Conference . The Southgate family hosts a number of Conference attendees who travel to Durham for the event. This letter is written on stationery from the Office of James Southgate, General, Fire, Insurance an Commission Agent.
	Bird's-Eye View of the City of Durham, North Carolina, 1891 This 1891 map shows an aerial view of Durham and provides an extensive index to the location of tobacco warehouses, factories, restaurants, groceries, dry goods dealers, churches, and residences located in Durham. Business owners include: Robert I. Rogers, Richard B. Fitzgerald, W. Shelburn, photographer, Q. E. Rawls, dry goods and many others. Also mentioned are the editors of the local newspapers E.C. Hackney of the Durham Recorder, Al Fairweather of the Durham Daily Globe, and J.A. Robinson of the Durham Daily Sun.

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