Blackwell, William Thomas

Date of birth
01.12.1839
Date of death
11.12.1903
Place of birth
Person County, NC
Place of death
Durham, NC
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Fuller, "Blind Boy" (Fulton Allen)

Date of birth
07.10.1907
Date of death
02.13.1941
Place of birth
Wadesboro, NC
Place of death
Durham, NC
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Fitzgerald, Richard

Date of birth
1843
Date of death
March 24, 1918
Place of birth
New Castle County, Delaware
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Spaulding, Charles C.

Date of birth
08.01.1874
Date of death
08.01.1952
Place of birth
Columbus County, NC
Place of death
Durham, NC
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Merrick, John M.

Date of birth
09.07.1859
Date of death
08.06.1919
Place of birth
Clinton, NC
Place of death
Durham, NC
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Branson, William H

Date of birth
05.23.1860
Date of death
04.07.1899
Place of birth
Randolph, North Carolina
Place of death
Durham, North Carolina
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Duke, Benjamin Newton

Date of birth
04.25.1855
Date of death
01.08.1929
Place of birth
Durham, NC
Place of death
New York, NY
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Southgate, James

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Whites Cross Roads School

Whites Cross Roads School, 1920s David Southern notes: The original White's Cross Roads was at the intersection of the misnamed Cornwallis Road and the New Hope Road, about a hundred yards to the west of the present-day Erwin and Cornwallis intersection. The New Hope Road (also known as old Chapel Hill Road, old Oxford Road, and University Road)...
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105 W. Knox St.

(Courtesy Alex Maness) Text in italics from the writeup for the 2011 Preservation Durham House Tour: Richard. H. Wright II House (Whitehall Terrace), 1929 and 1940 105 West Knox Street George Watts Carr designed this two-story frame Colonial Revival style house in 1929 for Richard H. Wright II, [...] and his wife, Helen Scanlon, the daughter of the...
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