Durham, North Carolina

Maplewood Cemetery
Dating to 1869, soldiers and war veterans, tobacco magnates and community leaders rest here. Six Italian marble figures surround Carr family plot. Many gravesites marked with Victorian funeral art. ...
Maplewood Cemetery
Geer Cemetery
Founded in 1876 as the first cemetery for African-Americans in Durham. Margaret Faucette, founder of White Rock Baptist Church, and Edian Markham, founder of St. Joseph's AME church and organizer of ...
Geer Cemetery
Beechwood Cemetery
Contains graves of many of Durham's African American business and community leaders, including John Merrick, founder of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and C.C. Spaulding, General Manage...
Beechwood Cemetery

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Art Craft Framing Company

Custom framing. Specializes in custom archival &

Durham, NC Arts

Perkins Library - Rare Book, Manuscript & Special Collections

Ranks seventh-largest among American private university libraries, with several thousand rare and unique books, maps, photographs, films, broadsides and Confederate prints, ancient clay tablets, manuscripts and books printed prior to 1501 A.D.

Durham, NC Other Attractions