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George Watts House - Harwood Hall

Harwood Hall, 1920s. (From "Favored by Fortune" by Howard Covington) The title of Howard Covington's book about the Watts and Hills of Durham- "Favored by Fortune" - seems somewhat trite at first glance, but it is an apt description of George Watts' entry into the gentry of Durham. When your father buys you a 1/5 share in the Duke and Sons Tobacco...

511 Yates Street / St. Paul's Lutheran Church / 500 Block Yates Avenue

Yates Avenue ran between West Chapel Hill St. and West Pettigrew St. - one of the core north-south streets of the West End - a neighborhood whose early residential core seems to have been concentrated along the Burch Avenue east-west axis between Yates and Milton (later renamed Buchanan.) The most prominent structure in the 500 block of Yates Ave...

Wt Blackwell Grave

Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial

(Photo by Donald Burgess Tilley Jr. All information from Commemorative Landscapes of NC) Location is imprecise. This book-shaped granite war memorial honors both the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War and those veterans who are still living. The creators of the monument wanted to establish an area of tranquility. The memorial consists of five...

Unity Monument

The State Legislature formed the Bennett Place Memorial Commission in 1923 with the intent of building a monument to national unity at the site. Sources differ as to who designed the monument - one, more credible source states that W.H. Dacy designed the memorial; another states that architects Milburn and Heister, who designed a multitude of other...

Thomas Decatur Jones Monument

Spanish-American Memorial Grave

This monument to three men was built in Maplewood Cemetery in 1902. 04.23.14 (G. Kueber) Text Reads: "Erected by a Grateful Community TO THE MEMORY OF Wm. Matthew Barbee Rufus V. Stem George M. Eubanks. Members of Co. I. 1st NC Vols. USA Who Nobly Laid Their Lives Upon Their Country's Altar During the Spanish-American War AD 1898 When The Republic...

Rotary Club Bandstand

The Rotary Club bandstand was built in the original Rotary Park in 1916 as the first public gift of the Rotarians. In 1924, upon construction of the Washington Duke Hotel, the bandstand was moved to the Bennett Place. 02.12.09

Old New Hope Road

Original cobbles on a section of the New Hope Road, which ran from near Stagville to Chapel Hill

Korea-Vietnam War Memorial

04.23.14 (G. Kueber) Right Side: IN HONOR OF THOSE 23 / BRAVE HEROES FROM / DURHAM COUNTY WHO / DIED WHILE SERVING THE / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / AND MANKIND BY / DEFENDING FREEDOM IN / KOREA. / DEDICATED MAY 30, 1994 / KOREA / 1950-1954 Left Side: IN HONOR OF THOSE 39 / BRAVE HEROES FROM / DURHAM COUNTY WHO / DIED WHILE SERVING THE / UNITED...