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City of Durham

The city grew from a railroad depot of the 1850s into a tobacco manufacturing center, incorporated in 1869, and became the seat of Durham County when the county was formed from Orange and Wake in 1881.

Source: NCpedia: Durham County

Orange County Indexed covers Orange County. The works below were indexed for an Orange County connection and also carry City of Durham among their catalog subjects; the index does not follow that place on its own.

382 indexed works are connected with this place. 6 held at OCPL →

Themes here. The subjects the index files most often under City of Durham.

Business, Shops & CommerceRoads, Rail & TransportationGrowth, Land & PlanningUNC & Campus LifeEno & EnvironmentResearch Triangle Park and the county’s transformationEveryday Life & TraditionsSchools & Education
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Maps of City of Durham

Dated maps that show this place, oldest first: town plans, county, road and soil maps, fire insurance sheets and the U.S. Geological Survey’s topographic maps, each linked to the library or archive that holds it. The USGS maps are free to download.

  1. Eno River Park Plan: For the City of Durham ; Master Plan, Phase I Durham
  2. Eno River Park Plan: Regional Recreation Lands Durham
  3. Forest Cover Map of Duke Forest [1986 DigitalNC
  4. New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan Durham
  5. North Carolina Transportation Map 1993-94 DPLA
  6. North Carolina Transportation Map 1995 DPLA
  7. North Carolina Transportation Map 1996 DPLA
  8. North Carolina Transportation Map 1999 DPLA
  9. 2000 State Transportation Map. DPLA
  10. North Carolina Transportation Map 2002 DPLA
  11. North Carolina Transportation Map 2003 DPLA
  12. Fish Dam Road Maps Durham
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  1. North Carolina Transportation Map 2004 DPLA

Indexed works

Related works found in catalogs and archives across North Carolina, the most widely held first, novels aside. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Narrow these works. Each link opens the search already limited to this place. Counts are indexed works, not copies on a shelf; a work can carry more than one period or place.

Material

Maps 83Periodicals 68Histories 44Programs 26Guidebooks & tours 25other types 93

Period

19th century 16Civil War (1861–1865) 520th century 31World War I era 2World War II era 221st century 1

Widely held

African Americans of Durham and Orange counties : an oral history

Bolduc, Jean · 2016 · The History Press

Jean Bolduc's collection of oral history interviews with Black residents of Durham and Orange counties, published by The History Press in 2016, 125 pages with photographs and portraits. The narrators are the poet Jaki Shelton Green, civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, Walter Jackson, Nate Davis, Brenda Stephens, Diane Wright, Jackie Wagstaff and Michelle Johnson, and a closing chapter deals with the Ku Klux Klan. The interviews document Black life and race relations in the two counties across the twentieth century.

Why this is here: The record names this place alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

NC Cardinal Duke Durham Wake Forest CH Historical Society UNC

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill : a student's guide to localized history

Powell, William S., 1919-2015 · 1968 · Teachers College Press

William S. Powell's guide for students taking up the local history of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, published in 1968 by Teachers College Press in New York. Forty-one pages of outlines and reading suggestions with bibliographies. Powell was the longtime historian of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the guide points a beginner to the sources for each of the three towns.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Durham.

UNC Library of Congress NC Cardinal

African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties

Bolduc, Jean · 2016

Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.

Why this is here: The record names this place alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 975.656 BOLDUC Duke

The story of the Eno River Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship

Routh, Donald K. · 1979 · Donald K. Routh

Donald K. Routh's short history of the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Durham congregation that takes its name from the river rising in Orange County. Twenty-one pages with a bibliography, published by the author in 1979. It concerns Unitarian Universalist churches in Durham and North Carolina church history.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Durham.

UNC Duke

Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice

Arsenault, Raymond · 2006 · Oxford University Press

Raymond Arsenault's history of the 1961 Freedom Rides and the campaign against segregated interstate travel in the South. Published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Its North Carolina material reaches Chapel Hill, Durham, Greensboro and Charlotte, which is where the Orange County connection lies, and the wider subject is African American civil rights work, segregation in transportation and race relations through the twentieth century.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Durham.

UNC

Interviews With Residents on Fish Dam Road

Liles, Joe · 2004

Joe Liles's interviews with longtime residents of Fish Dam Road, an old rural road in Durham County, recorded in 2004, with subjects tied to both Durham and Orange counties. The interviewees are Charles Scott Harkey, Mary Scarlett Jones, Boyce Link and John Scarlett, all born between 1912 and 1920, and the topics include country life, the road's history and the Duke Power Company.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Rural Roads -- North Carolina -- Durham.

Durham
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Homelands : southern Jewish identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Rogoff, Leonard · 2001

Leonard Rogoff's history of Jewish life and identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, published at Tuscaloosa in 2001 with the ISBN 081731055X. Topics include Jews in both towns, their history and identity, and ethnic relations across the Durham metropolitan area. A full length scholarly treatment of a southern Jewish community in two neighboring Piedmont towns.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Durham.

UNC

Saint Barbara Church Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Album

Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church (Durham, N.C.) · 2000

Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church in Durham marked fifty years in 2000 with this commemorative album. It covers parish history, families and Greek American biography associated with Durham and Chapel Hill.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Orthodox Eastern Church -- North Carolina -- Durham.

Durham

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Start at OCPL

Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this place. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled. Books marked Wider context cover the broader subject rather than this place itself.

  • Foundational · NC 975.656 BOLDUC African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History Bolduc, Jean · 2016

    Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.656 MAS Durham, North Carolina: A Postcard History Massengill, Stephen E. · 1997

    Bryon Pulkownik's double sided Durham map for Seeger Map Company, dated 1994, with five ancillary maps including downtown Durham and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. The supplied information also identifies a separate title, Durham, North Carolina: a postcard history, and appears to combine two works. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 641.597 AMERICAN American Express Presents Top Chefs of the Triangle 1996

    Cookbook drawn from restaurants across the Triangle, with recipes and portraits of the chefs, published by Raleigh Magazine in 1996 as a first edition of 157 pages with color illustrations. Topics include cooking in Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh, so the Orange County share of the book is the Chapel Hill kitchens represented among the contributors.

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  • Wider context · NC 305.896 BRO Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South Brown, Leslie · 2008

    Leslie Brown's history of Black Durham, the community Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois both admired in the 1910s, from emancipation to the civil rights era. Drawing on interviews and family stories, Brown puts African American women at the center and argues that conflicts of gender and class among Black Durhamites fed their activism. UNC Press, 2008, in the John Hope Franklin series; 451 pages with maps.

  • Wider context · 323.119 GRE Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina Greene, Christina · 2005

    Christina Greene's history of Black and white women in Durham's freedom movement, from the fight against Jim Crow in the 1940s through the protests of 1957 to 1963, neighborhood organizing among poor residents, the War on Poverty, Black Power politics and a boycott. Revised from her 1996 Duke doctoral thesis, it was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2005; 366 pages with bibliography and index.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 712.5 GLYMPH The Sarah P. Duke Gardens: A Wonderful Wonder Glymph, Minnie · 2006

    A large-format picture book on the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, some 55 acres of landscaped and wooded grounds at Duke University in Durham that serve as a memorial to Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, wife of Benjamin N. Duke. Minnie Glymph wrote the text; Chris Hildreth and Les Todd took the photographs, many in color. Published in 2006; 142 pages with a bibliography.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 338.097 COV Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts & the Hills of Durham Covington, Howard E. · 2004

    Four generations of a Durham family in Howard E. Covington Jr.'s collective biography: George Washington Watts, John Sprunt Hill (his son-in-law), and the two George Watts Hills, father and son. Their interests ran from the American Tobacco Company to Central Carolina Bank, Watts Hospital and the Carolina Inn at Chapel Hill, and they pressed for credit unions, better highways and Research Triangle Park. Published by the UNC Library at Chapel Hill in 2004; 372 pages and 48 pages of plates.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 810.8 LIV A Living Culture in Durham: A Collection of Writings by Durham Area Authors 1987

    An anthology of poetry and prose by writers of Durham and its surroundings, edited by Judy Hogan with Mary Ellen Priestley and Margaret Stephens and illustrated with Ted Bodenheimer's photographs. Hogan founded Carolina Wren Press, the Durham publisher that issued the 478-page collection in 1987, and helped found the North Carolina Writers' Network.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC BIO CARR WEB Jule Carr: General Without An Army Webb, Mena · 1987

    Mena Webb's biography of Julian S. Carr (1845 to 1924), the Durham industrialist of Bull Durham tobacco, banker and philanthropist. UNC Press published it in 1987: 306 pages with illustrations, portraits, a bibliography and an index.

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