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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is in Durham County, with approximately 283,000 residents.

Well-Known Places in Durham

Duke University, American Tobacco Campus, Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

Durham Business Districts

• Downtown Durham
• Research Triangle Park
• Southpoint

Major Employers in Durham

Duke University, Duke Health, IBM, Fidelity Investments.

About Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a former tobacco and textile boomtown that reinvented itself as a research and medicine powerhouse anchored by Duke University and the adjacent Research Triangle Park. Brick warehouses that once packed Bull Durham tobacco now hold restaurants, startups, and a nationally ranked food scene, earning the city a reputation as one of the South's tastiest towns. It is one point of North Carolina's Research Triangle, alongside Raleigh and Chapel Hill.

History of Durham

• The 'Bull City' name traces to Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco from the Blackwell Tobacco Company; the brand's bull logo was reportedly inspired by Coleman's Mustard, which the founder mistakenly thought was made in Durham, England.
• Near the end of the Civil War, Union and Confederate troops sampled the region's Brightleaf tobacco during the Bennett Place ceasefire, helping launch the tobacco fortune of Washington Duke and his family.
• James B. Duke consolidated Blackwell and other producers into the American Tobacco Company in 1890, and Bull Durham became one of the most famous trademarks in the world.

Landmarks and Places in Durham

• Duke University Chapel, a 210-foot Collegiate Gothic chapel finished in 1935, seating about 1,800; its chief designer was pioneering Black architect Julian Abele.
• American Tobacco Campus and its landmark Lucky Strike water tower and smokestack.

The Durham Economy

• The economy was historically built on tobacco (American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers) and textiles before shifting to research, biotech, and healthcare.

Community Life in Durham

• The Durham Bulls, Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, play at Durham Bulls Athletic Park and gained fame through the 1988 film 'Bull Durham' with Kevin Costner.

Local reference: www.discoverdurham.com, www.museumofdurhamhistory.org, en.wikipedia.org