This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.

Excerpt from Directory, Duke Memorial Methodist Church, Burham, N. C: Founder's Week, 60th Anniversary, 1886-1946 It would be difficult to find anywhere in America a community of like size with so large an aggregation of splendid citizenship as has Durham, N. C. It has wealth without snobbishness, culture without veneer, aristocracy without pretense and piety without Phariseeism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.