Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) Duke

Life and Orange County connections

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1. by June 30, 1894 Surveyor N. A. Ramsey enters unclaimed land near University Station as state land Surveying land near University Station for B. N. Duke, Capt. N. A. Ramsey found ten to fifteen acres within half a mile of the station that no deed covered and no owner could be traced for, and he entered the tract at Hillsborough as state land. People: Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) Duke Place: University Station, Orange County · Also named: N. A. RamseySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 30, 1894, p. 3
2. 1901 Lincoln Hospital opens in Durham for Black patients Dr. Aaron Moore and John Merrick won Duke family funding for a separate hospital where Black physicians and nurses treated Black patients, after Watts Hospital had excluded them. It opened in 1901 as a 50-bed frame building. People: Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) Duke Place: Lincoln Hospital, Durham · Also named: Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick, James B. Duke · Also mentions: Watts HospitalOpen Durham: Lincoln Hospital (1901-1924)
3. June 26, 1919 B. N. Duke's Sunnyside farm at University Station is sold in 35 tracts Sunnyside, B. N. Duke's 2,300-acre farm around University Station, was divided into 35 farms and sold at a well-attended public auction for more than $98,000. Julian S. Carr bought most of the land on the left of the highway and railroad going north, including the groves. People: Julian S. Carr Place: University Station · Also mentions: SunnysideSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), July 3, 1919, p. 5