Durham

Duke Homestead State Historic Site
Duke Homestead State Historic Site preserves and exhibits the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. Duke's sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world, and brought what would become Duke University to Durham. A tour includes the Duke family's restored home, early factory, curing barn, and packhouse. The Tobacco Museum exhibits trace tobacco history from American Indian times to the present. The museum also houses a research library containing historical and contemporary books and periodicals on tobacco farming and manufacturing.

Forest History Society
Alvin J. Huss Archives and Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Library
The Forest History Society is unique as the only organization on the planet solely dedicated to preserving forest and conservation history. From the Alvin J. Huss Archives, which contain the records of industry and conservation organizations worldwide, to the more than 8,000 volumes of the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Library, there is no more comprehensive compilation of materials related to forest history in the world. The Forest History Society fosters scholarship by enabling studies related to forest conservation and use over time. Several on-line databases such as the annotated Environmental History Bibliography provide researchers, educators, journalists, and scholars worldwide with the tools they need to bring historical integrity to their work.

North Carolina Central University
Art Museum
The North Carolina Central University Art Museum's collection features the works of various African-American artists from both the 19th and 20th centuries as well as a selection of objects from the African continent. NCCU Art Museum has been called "the most important publicly assembled collection of African-American art in North Carolina" and boasts the works of artists such as Henry O. Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, and Minnie Evans.

Bennett Place State Historic Site
The mission of Bennett Place State Historic Site is to preserve and interpret the history of the largest surrender of the Civil War and the lives of the 19th century yeoman farmers such as the Bennetts. The negotiations between General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General William T. Sherman took place in the home of James and Nancy Bennett. This surrender culminated in the stacking of arms of 89,270 Confederate soldiers active in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The Bennett farm has been reconstructed to depict the life of the Bennett family and the scene of the surrender negotiations. There is a visitor center, which includes a museum gallery with exhibits telling the story of the Bennett family and the surrender, a theater, which shows the short film, "Dawn of Peace", and a museum gift shop. Special events and living history programs are held throughout the year.

Museum of Life and Science
Packed with highly interactive exhibits, the Museum of Life and Science showcases aerospace, weather, geology, Carolina wildlife, farmyard, train rides, traveling exhibits, gift shops, café and more culminating with the tropical Magic Wings Butterfly House and Bayer CropScience Insectarium.

Hayti Heritage Center

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University fosters the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts by providing direct experiences with original works of art supported by a range of exhibitions, programs and publications for the university and the broader community. The museum draws on the intellectual resources of a great research university and serves as a laboratory of the arts dedicated to multidisciplinary approaches to learning. These strategies make the Nasher at Duke a unique cornerstone of the arts for Duke University, Durham and the Triangle community, the State of North Carolina and the greater Southeast region.

Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
Rosenzweig Museum

Duke University
School of Law Library-Riddick Rare Book and Special Collections Room
The Floyd M. and Marguerite F. Riddick Rare Book and Special Collections Room is located in the northwest corner of the Law Library Reading Room. Works from the Riddick Collections, including books autographed to Dr. Riddick and Dr. Riddick's own writings, are on display in the Room along with items from the Library's Rare Book Collection. The Rare Book Collection includes a first edition of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England which the Library added as its 500,000th volume in 1997; De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, the first systematic exposition of English law; James Kent's Commentaries on American Law; and works important to North Carolina law and to Duke University.

Durham Arts Council
The Durham Arts Council creates community through the active involvement of artists, teachers, students, business partners, friends, and donors. In addition to their changing exhibition spaces, the Arts Council has a small permanent collection of artwork by local artists on display as well as a sculpture by Vernon Pratt outside the building.

Duke University
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University supports historical and cultural studies by Duke University students and faculty, the larger scholarly community, and other researchers through acquiring, preserving, providing access to, and promoting use of primary research materials in a broad range of specified subjects and a variety of formats. The holdings of the Library range from ancient papyri to records of modern advertising. They number more than 200,000 printed volumes and more than 11 million items in manuscript and archival collections. They support research in a wide variety of disciplines and programs, including African-American studies, anthropology, classics, economics, history, literature, political science, religion, sociology, and women's studies.

Duke University
History of Medicine Collections, Medical Center Library
The History of Medicine Collections houses many rare and significant works and an extensive circulating collection documenting medical practices and thought, and medicine's relationship to society through time. The collection includes over 20,000 monographs and 4,000 manuscripts, as well as photographs, illustrations, medical instruments, stamps, medals, and a variety of medical realia. Built in honor of Josiah Charles Trent, MD (1914-1948) and his combined love of books and medicine, the Trent Room in the History of Medicine Collections houses select, rare volumes from the Trent Collection and a variety of medical artifacts and realia from several other collections including the Warner Wells Hiroshima Diary collection, old microscopes, wooden and leather pharmaceutical boxes, infant feeding dishes, apothecary jars, African medical artifacts, and a fine group of 17th and 18th century ivory anatomical manikins.

Duke University
Archives
The Duke University Archives is the official repository for records of the University, and the gateway to its past. The role of the Archives is to identify, acquire, manage, and preserve University records of enduring value and make them available for use. The Archives holds official non-current records of University administrative and academic offices. They also acquire records of student, faculty and staff organizations, selected personal papers, and books, images, audio, and other material by or about Duke University.

North Carolina Central University
James E. Shepard Memorial Library Special Collections
The Treasure Room is located on the 1st floor of the James E. Shepard Memorial Library. The collection includes numerous works that were written during the Antebellum Period of American history. Many of the works are of a narrative perspective and are ideal for use as primary sources. Other items in the Collection include anti-slavery pamphlets, nineteenth century newspapers, first editions of novels written by acclaimed authors, such as William Wells Brown, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatley, Charles W. Chestnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, and Countee Cullen, just to name a few. In addition, representative works of many southern writers of the last century are also among the publications that comprise this valuable collection. The University Archives contains a selection of materials documenting the history of North Carolina Central University.

Duke University
Eye Center Touchable Art Gallery
Located at Duke University Eye Center, the Touchable Art Gallery is designed to allow everyone, including those with visual impairments, to enjoy art in a unique way. The Gallery, located adjacent to the reception area, is open weekdays. Patients, family members, and friends are encouraged to visit the gallery while they wait for appointments or surgical procedures. The Gallery also accommodates community groups for special tours. The Touchable Art Gallery features art that has been selected to be touched and handled; works created by artists who are visually impaired; sculpture from all over the world; works created from a variety of materials; pieces on loan from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and from Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh; and artwork donated by North Carolina artists and collectors. Gallery volunteers are available to explain the artwork to visitors one piece at a time.

Durham County Public Library
North Carolina Room Collection
The primary mission of the Durham County Library North Carolina Collection is to collect materials concerning the city and county of Durham. However, this collection also has a wealth of materials for people interested in researching North Carolina-related topics. The North Carolina Collection consists of books, journals, newspapers, microfilm, photographs, Durham vertical files, small manuscripts collections, and the Durham County Library archives. More than 15,000 volumes (noncirculating) form the core of the North Carolina Collection, covering gneral county and state history and specific topics including architecture, civil rights, education, genalogy, business, and the Civil War. Durham city directories, local high school yearbooks, and city and county documents are important parts of the book collection. The collection is located on the third floor of the library.

Historic Stagville State Historic Site
Historic Stagville comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantation belonged to the Bennehan-Cameron family, whose combined holdings totaled approximately 900 slaves and almost 30,000 acres by 1860. Today, Stagville consists of 71 acres, on three tracts. On this land stand the late 18th century Bennehan House; four rare slave houses; a pre-Revolutionary War farmer's house; a huge timber framed barn built by skilled slave craftsmen; and the Bennehan Family cemetery.

West Point on the Eno
West Point Mill
West Point on the Eno is a 388-acre park located along a two-mile stretch of the scenic Eno River, six miles north of downtown Durham. The park has three historic structures: the West Point Mill, the McCown-Mangum House, and the Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography. The West Point Mill is a reconstruction of the mill that stood on the grounds from 1778 to 1942. Through the use of photographs of the original mill, remains of the framing, and the intact foundation, the mill was reconstructed with materials gleaned from other local grist mills. Today the West Point Mill is working again, grinding corn and wheat with water power. Stone-ground meal and flour, along with other items, are sold in the mill's store.

Tuba Exchange
The Tuba Exchange provides the highest quality Tubas, Sousaphones, and Euphoniums at affordable prices, while providing the best customer service in the industry. Their Durham location also houses an extensive collection of historic instruments of the tuba family ranging in date from the 1840s to the present. Photographs of and information about the historic collection can be found on the Tuba Exchange's website.

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
Archival Collection and Heritage Room
The North Carolina Mutual Archival Collection contains the largest collection in America of historical information in print and broadcast media on an African-American company. The Collection includes photographs documenting the company's history and related events; books written by and/or about North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (NCM) and its founders; government publications related to insurance; an extensive collection of company documents; company correspondence covering all aspects of the business; company newsletters dating back to 1904 as well as other publications; broadcast commercials in various formats; plaques, awards and other forms of recognition; promotional items used by the company; and historical information on the family of the founders. The Archives are open to researchers by appointment only. The Heritage Room, located on the twelfth floor of the home office building, is a pictorial exhibit containing 33 panels that chronicle the company's first 100 years.

Duke University
Medical Center Archives
Since the 1970s, Medical Center Archives has played a vital role in preserving and providing access to the legal, administrative, and historical records of the Medical Center and Health System administrative offices, department chairs and chiefs, and faculty. By preserving the Medical Center's documentary heritage, the Archives makes it possible to study contributions of members to the Medical Center community and history of the institution. The Duke Medical Center Archives includes an Oral History Program and the Society for the Preservation of the Physician Assistant History collection. The Oral History Program of the Duke University Medical Center Archives exists to capture the medical center's history in the words of the people who have witnessed or participated in that history. The Society for the Preservation of the Physician Assistant History collection contains materials that document the history and evolution of the physician assistant profession from its conception to the present time.

Patterson's Mill Country Store and Museum
Since 1973, Patterson's Mill Country Store has served its community in the same spirit as the original Patterson & Company Store of the 1870s. Patterson's Mill Country Store contains an extensive collection of mercantile Americana, including a nationally recognized pharmaceutical collection and tobacco memorabilia collection. There is also a furnished early twentieth-century doctor's office, early artifacts from the Patterson's Mill Community, and aisle after aisle of memorabilia. A large selection of local and regional crafts, antiques, and collectables are offered for sale.

West Point on the Eno
McCown-Mangum House
West Point on the Eno is a 388-acre park located along a two-mile stretch of the scenic Eno River, six miles north of downtown Durham. The park has three historic structures: the West Point Mill, the McCown-Mangum House, and the Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography. The McCown-Mangum House is a vernacular Greek revival farmhouse built in the 1840's. In 1891, the house was sold to Presley J. Mangum, an early Durham postmaster, who wished to escape the growing town of Durham. The Mangum family occupied the house until 1968. The restored house features original mantels and woodwork, including rooms sheathed in the original heart-of-pine boards. The house is furnished and decorated in a late-nineteenth century style, with several original pieces loaned by the Mangum family.

West Point on the Eno
Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography
West Point on the Eno is a 388-acre park located along a two-mile stretch of the scenic Eno River, six miles north of downtown Durham. The park has three historic structures: the West Point Mill, the McCown-Mangum House, and the Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography. One of the original buildings at West Point, the Packhouse, once used for handling tobacco, now serves as the Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography. Hugh Mangum, the eldest son of Presley J. Mangum and accomplished photographer, used the second floor of the Packhouse for his darkroom. There is permanent exhibit of Hugh Mangum's photographs printed from glass plate negatives found in the Packhouse. Also on display are cameras and equipment from Mangum's darkroom as well as his personal effects. A new wing added to the building displays contemporary exhibits.

American Dance Festival
Archives
The American Dance Festival Archives serves as the repository for records of enduring historical value created and collected by ADF, including film and video recordings of ADF performances. The Archives also holds a number of dance and dance related collections created by choreographers and other institutions and preserves its collections for use by the dance community, including students, scholars, and the general public.

Durham County Public Library
- Stanford L. Warren Branch
The Stanford L. Warren Branch Library was formerly the Durham Colored Library until it merged with the present system in 1966. Located within a mile of the Main Library, S.L. Warren Branch serves a community with special needs, interests, history, and cultural heritage. The Selena Warren Wheeler Collection, housed at the Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham County Library, is a non-circulating collection of books on African American life and history. The 7,908 volume collection contains 1,113 fiction, 5,144 non-fiction, 421 reference and 1,230 biographical works. Additionally, there is a vertical file containing biographical and topical material on local and national African Americans. It is recognized as one of the best African American collections in the South.

Old North State Medical Society
The Old North State Medical Society (ONSMS) is the nation's oldest association of Black Physicians. The Society was founded in 1886 and has from that date until the present directed its energies to the objectives of equity in healthcare, equal opportunity for black health professionals and equal care for black, other ethnic minorities, and very poor patients.

Rosenzweig Museum & Jewish Heritage Foundation
The Rosenzweig Museum and Jewish Heritage Project of North Carolina through its collection and outreach programs, promotes understanding of Jewish people by educating both Jews and the general public on the history, culture and religion of the Jewish people and by encouraging the beauty of Jewish rituals and practice. In its custodian role, it seeks to collect and preserve artifacts and record the history of the Jews of North Carolina, as well as conduct programs that examine and portray the Jewish presence in North Carolina.

Triangle Modernist Archive Inc.
Triangle Modernist Archive, Inc. (TMA) is a North Carolina nonprofit organization. Established in 2007 by George Smart, the organization became a formal nonprofit in 2009. TMA is committed to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle. Our primary community service is managing Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), an award-winning nonprofit educational archive for cataloguing, preserving, and advocating modernist residential design in the Triangle area of North Carolina. TMH hosts popular modernist house tours several times a year, giving the public access to the Triangle's most exciting residential architecture, past and present. Our tours raise awareness and help preserve these works of art for future generations.