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Duke Homestead State Historic Site | Museum/Attraction Review | Durham, NC | Frommers.com - expert review
The Duke homestead, where Washington Duke opened his first tobacco factory in a rickety one-room barn, is today a National Historic Landmark. As a Confederate soldier, Duke learned about the Union soldiers love of Bright Leaf tobacco, and he return...
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Duke Homestead
Duke spent most of his life as a farmer. The death of his first wife and his subsequent remarriage brought him in 1852 to what is now the Duke Homestead near Durham Station. After the death of his second wife, he planted his first tobacco crop. He soon decided to concentrate his efforts not on farmi...
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Duke Homestead State Historic Site
Duke Homestead is the site of the Duke family's nineteenth-century farm and the place where Washington Duke started a tobacco business in 1865 that eventually became the world's largest, The American Tobacco Company. With money from their tobacco fortune, the Dukes became major benefactors of Trinit...
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Duke Homestead State Historic - Durham, NC, 27705-2726 - Citysearch
The site has replicas of the early factory, curing barn and packhouse used by the Duke family as they built their tobacco fortune. Tour guides show how the tobacco was tied, dried, graded and sifted. If the tobacco tale doesn't interest you, there's always the house, restored to show how this middle...
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Duke Homestead
Duke Homestead State Historic Site portrays the Duke family in the years just after the Civil War. The site includes the main house itself, which consists of a simple four room dwelling with a kitchen addition; the reconstructed first factory; the original third factory; two outbuildings; a tobacco ...
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Duke Homestead State Historic in Raleigh Durham, NC - AOL City Guide
These days, the mere word tobacco conjures up images of evil tobacco executives and advertisements aimed at easily influenced children. All this vilifying can make one forget that a large part of this nation's history was built on tobacco, especially here in North Carolina. In fact, the Duke family ...
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