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North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-85
Bull City Blues. During the 1920s-1940s, Durham was home to African American musicians whose work defined a distinctive regional style. Blues artists often played in the surrounding Hayti community and downtown tobacco warehouse district. Prominent among these were Blind Boy Fuller (Fulton Allen) (1907-1941) and Blind Gary Davis (1896-1972), whose recordings influenced generations of players.
Fayetteville Street at Simmons Street in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-41
James O'kelly Ca. 1735 1826. Founded the Christian Church, after dissenting from Methodist-Episcopal Church, 1792. His grave is 4 miles south.
NC 54 at NC 751 (Hope Valley Road) in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-109
John Merrick 1859 1919. Black business leader. In 1898 he founded what is now N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company. His grave is 85 yds. N.W.
Fayetteville Road at Cornwallis Road in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-97
Duke University. Formerly Trinity College. Name was changed in 1924 to honor Washington Duke whose son James B. Duke endowed the institution.
West Main Street in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-98
N.C. Society Of Engineers. Organized in 1918 in the Malbourne Hotel, which stood here. J. N. Ambler elected first president.
US 15/501 Business North (Roxboro Street) in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-102
John Sprunt Hill 1869 1961. Banker and attorney. Leader in credit union movement. Benefactor, UNC Library. Lived here.
US 501 Bypass (South Duke Street) in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-114
Rural Credit Union. Lowes Grove credit union, first in South, formed to serve local farmers. Est. Dec. 9, 1915, on initiative of John Sprunt Hill.
NC 54 at Alston Avenue in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-113
Durham County Public Library. Oldest public library in North Carolina supported by local taxpayers. In 1898 opened its doors at site 1/2 mile west.
US 15/501 Business North (Roxboro Street) in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-116
Black Wall Street. In the early decades of the 1900s, Durham acquired national reputation for entrepreneurship. Businesses owned by African Americans lined Parrish Street. Among them were N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (moved to Parrish, 1906), led by John Merrick, Dr. Aaron Moore, & C. C. Spaulding, and Mechanics and Farmers Bank (1907), led by R. B. Fitzgerald and W. G. Pearson.
US 15/501 South Business (Mangum Street) at Parrish Street in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-123
Royal Ice Cream Sit In. Segregation protest at an ice cream parlor on this site, June 23, 1957, led to court case testing dual racial facilities.
US 15/501 (Roxboro Street) at Dowd Street in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-130
Rose Butler Browne 1897 1986. Educator & civil rights activist. Chair, Education Dept., N.C. College for Negroes, 1948-63. Her grave is 100 yds. N.E.
NC 55 at Riddle Road in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #H-78
O'kelly Chapel Christian Church. Organized, 1794, by Jas. O'Kelly, founder of the denomination. Present building fourth on site.
NC 751 south of Chatham/Durham county line, NC, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-29
Stagville. Plantation established by Richard Bennehan in 1776. Later a part of vast holdings of the Cameron family. House is 7 miles northeast.
US 501 Business (Roxboro Street) at Braggtown in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-32
Trading Path. Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina passed nearby.
US 501 north of, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-53
North Carolina Central University. Founded 1910 by James E. Shepard for Negroes. State liberal arts college, 1925-1969. Now a regional university.
NC 55 (South Alston Avenue) at Lawson Street in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-63
Duke Homestead. Birthplace of J. B. and B. N. Duke, tobacco and hydroelectric magnates, philanthropists (Duke University, the Duke Endowment), is 1 mi. S.W.
Duke Street at Carver Street in, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-57
James E. Shepard. Negro educational and religious leader. Founder of a college (1910), now N.C. Central University, its president to 1947. Grave is 1 1/2 miles S.E.
NC 751 (Hope Valley Road) at University Drive in, Durham, NC, United States
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North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-48
Pauli Murray 1910 1985. First African American female Episcopal priest; lawyer, activist, poet, & human rights champion. Wrote Proud Shoes, 1956. Childhood home ΒΌ mi. S.
West Chapel Hill Street at Carroll Street, Durham, NC, United States
North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-80
Bennett Place. Farm home of James Bennett, where Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to Union Gen. William T. Sherman, Apr. 26, 1865. Johnston's surrender followed Lee's at Appomattox by 17 days and ended the Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
SR 1313 (Bennett Memorial Road) at SR 1314, Durham, NC, United States
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North Carolina Highway Historical Marker #G-112
N.C. School Of Science And Mathematics. Opened in 1980 as state-supported, residential high school. Campus was site of Watts Hospital (1909-1976), built by Geo. Washington Watts.
Broad Street in, Durham, NC, United States