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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16Y8_rotary-bandstand_Durham-NC.html
Erected by the Rotary Club of Durham as its first community gift in November, 1916. Originally located in Rotary Park in downtown Durham; Relocated to Bennet PlaceMemorial Park in1924. Refurbished and rededicated by the Rotary Club of Durham on Oc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13MK_unity_Durham-NC.html
One hundred feet east of this spot in the Bennett House General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General William T. Sherman met at noon, April 17, 1865, to discuss terms of a proposed surrender. They met in this house again on April 18 and wrote and s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13MG_north-carolina_Durham-NC.html
North Carolina's Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the Confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13KS_the-original-chimney-of-the-bennett-house_Durham-NC.html
The original Bennett House, which burned on October 12, 1921, faced east on the old Hillsboro Road; the road ran in 1865 as now, south of the building. The structure consisted of one room downstairs and a small room over it; in the former Generals…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13KO_meeting-of-the-generals_Durham-NC.html
On April 17, 1865, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston met on this section of the Raleigh to Hillsboro Road at the home of James and Nancy Bennett to negotiate a peace settlement to end the war. Staff officers, tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPB9_duke-homestead_Durham-NC.html
When North Carolina became the last state to secede from the Union in May 1861, Washington Duke's small farm and homestead here consisted of more than 300 acres. He grew typical crops such as corn, wheat, oats, and sweet potatoes, and had raised c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPB6_north-carolina_Durham-NC.html
North Carolina's Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids and the Confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TT_bennett-place_Durham-NC.html
(Preface, upper left) : The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the "March to the Sea." Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAS_bennett-place_Durham-NC.html
Farm home of James Bennett, where Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to Gen. William T. Sherman, April 26, 1865. Johnston's surrender followed Lee's at Appomattox by 17 days and ended the Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia, …