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Two Adjacent Properties In Beautiful & Historic Durham, North Carolina

In the 16th century, two Native American tribes the Eno and the Occaneechi, related to the Sioux lived and farmed on the land now known as Durham, North Carolina. Durham is thought to be the site of an ancient Native American village named Adshusheer. In 1701, Durhams beauty was chronicled by the explorer John Lawson, who called the area the flower of the Carolinas. During the mid-1700s, Scottish, Irish, and English colonists settled on land granted to John Carteret by King Charles I (for whom the Carolinas are named). Early settlers built gristmills, such as West Point, and worked the land. The railroad company gave this area the name Durhamville, in 1849, when country doctor Bartlett Durham donated four acres of land for a train station. The name was later shortened to Durham.

One of Durhams legacy nicknames is the Bull City, now signified by a full-size, bronze statue in the City C...

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