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Join us each Tuesday & Thursday for Tobacco Empire & Historic Durham tours. Tobacco Road Tours take you to where Durham's roots began & where the City has evolved today.
North Carolina's "Triangle", with some of the United States best historical markers, culture, architecture, food and stories await you as we travel the "Bull City " or now known as "City of Medicine" on TRT's Tobacco Empire & Historic Durham tour.
1:00pm – 3:30pm (2.5 hour) $45/person/Child/$15 (13 & under) Min: 2 adult guests
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Departure: Durham Visitors Center , 101 East Morgan Street
NC, Durham 27701
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Contact Name: Brad
Contact E-Mail: brad@tobaccoroadtours.com |
A bit more than a half century younger than Raleigh, Durham, grew around a railroad station established in rural Orange County. In 1849 Dr. Bartlett Durham gave less than four acres to the North Carolina railroad, Durham’s station was built and named in his honor. The first post office opened in 1853, but the town was not incorporated until 1869. The new town wanting a stronger voice petitioned the legislature to create Durham County from portions of Orange and Wake Counties.
The first Tobacco factories opened in 1858. Growth was slow until after the Civil War when local industrialists opened their own factories and Durham’s main industry began to draw worldwide attention. Textile plants were opened to make the cloth bags for tobacco. It was also during this period that Washington Duke and Julia S. Carr donated money and land to Trinity College on the condition that it relocate from Randolph County; and it did so in 1892.
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