Bronze

Commissioned after the death of Washington Duke in 1905, and created by Edward V. Valentine, who has design a well-known seated statue of Robert E. Lee, and a statue of Thomas Jefferson at UVA, the Washington Duke statue is well-travelled - and is rumored to be capable of standing.

The Sower is one of several statues James B. Duke bought for his New Jersey estate. The Sower was located at Duke Farm until 1914, when Trinity president John Kilgo mentioned to Duke that he admired the statue; Duke sent the statue to Durham, and Trinity placed the Sower in front of Craven Memorial Hall.

Text reads: "Member of the General Assembly of the state - Mayor of Durham - Chairman of the Commissioners of the County - Justice of the Peace for fifty years - His life was given to the service of his neighbors to whom he was ever a symbol of rectitude and pattern of virtue - Presented to the County of Durham by his daughter, Sarah Angier Duke...

New York sculptor Charles Keck created the James Buchanan Duke Statue in 1935. The statue was unveiled on June 3, 1935 as part of commencement. Mary Duke Biddle, grandniece of James Buchanan Duke, removed the veil on the statue before a group of several thousand with President William Few presiding over the ceremony. Cast in bronze, the statue...

Plaque Reads: "ROLL OF HONOR 1941 * 1945 IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTY'S CALL IN WORLD WAR II THE DURHAM EXCHANGE CLUB DEDICATES THIS MEMORIAL" 'This Prayer we make in penitence / that all who pass by here may sense the costliness of human strife / the value of a soldier's life.'" Names: (OCRed - needs editing.) JOSEPIf MARSHALL lOX...

(04.23.14) Front: IN MEMORY OF / “THE BOYS WHO / WORE THE GRAY” Left: DEDICATED MAY 10TH, 1924 Right: THIS MEMORIAL / ERECTED BY / THE PEOPLE OF / DURHAM COUNTY. 04.23.14 This statue was pulled down by protesters on August 14, 2017. 08.14.2017 (Herald-Sun) 08.14.2017 (Herald-Sun)

The Anne Roney Fountain originally was situated in a prominent position directly in front of the Old Main / Washington Duke Building. Roney was the sister of Artelia Roney, Washington Duke's second wife. Anne helped Duke raise his children after Artelia died, and was housekeeper at Fairview, his house on the southeast corner of South Duke St. and West Main St..

A bronze bull at the center of Durham 04.21.14 (G. Kueber)