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Title:
Chas. Emerson’s North Carolina tobacco belt directory 1886 (Excerpt)
Creator(s):
Emerson, Charles, Compiler
Date:
1886
Description:
This section of the 1886 directory entitled, Gazetteer of Durham County, North Carolina, lists 70 Durham County merchants and land owners, together with the name of the post office located nearest their businesses. Individuals with African American heritage are denoted by an asterisk (*). Occupations include hotel and saloon keeper, shoe maker, general store keeper and grocer, postmaster, mechanic and blacksmith, minister and pastor, saw and grist mill owner, physician, and cotton ginner.
Source:
Chas. Emerson’s North Carolina tobacco belt directory, embracing the counties of Alamance, Durham . . .Wake. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1886. pp. 159-160.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Durham County
North Carolina -- Commerce -- Directories -- 19th century
Businessmen -- North Carolina -- Directories
African American business enterprises
Tobacco industry -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Durham (N.C.) -- History
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Southern States -- Commerce -- Directories
Durham County (N.C.) -- History
Industrialists -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Manufacturers -- Southern States -- Directories
Durham (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources

Geographic Term:
Durham County (N.C.)
Flat River (N.C.)
Durham (N.C.)
Dayton (N.C.)
Fish Dam (N.C.)
Lyndover (N.C.)
Staggville (N.C.)
Orange Factory (N.C.)
South Lowell (N.C.)
McCown (N.C.)
Chapel Hill (N.C.)
Red Mountain (N.C.)
Luster (N.C.)
Morrisville (N.C.)
Durham (N.C.)

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