D4CMM Catalogue: All known Confederate monuments and other remnants ofthe Confederacy or the history ofenslavement in Durha

Name Description Address WebAddress Additional Citations Beechwood Cemetery Cemetery dating backto 1926, owned andoperated bythe City of Durham. Still in 3300 Fayetteville )s 7, www. https: use today. Originally established asa cemetery for black residents of Durham. Many Street, Durham NC discoverdurham. //cemeterycensys. of Durham's most prominent African-Americans are buried here. On its founding, 27707 com/listines/Bee =h com/nc/durh/cem2 many burials were relocatedto Beechwoodfrom oldercemeteries, such as Violet wood- ParkCemetery (aka Wolf Den Cemetery), GeerCemetery, FitzgeraldCemetery, and Cemeterv/1793/ HickstownCemetery, which may have included the graves of formerly enslaved people. State Historic Site State Historic Site that is the site of the largest troop surrender in the 4409 Bennett SS. NaticnalRegister CivilWar. In 1865,US General William T. Shermanand Confederate General Joseph E. Memorial Road. ore/bennett/bennett.htm Nomination: http: Johnstonmet at thefarmstead of James and NancyBennitt and arranged the Civil DurhamNC 27705 //www. hpo. ncdcr. War's largest troop surrenderon April 26, 1865, 17 days after ConfederateGeneral gov/nr/DH0002.pdf Robert E. Lee'ssurrender at Appomattox, VA.The surrenderended the War in the , and and effected more than 89,000 Union and Confederate https://www. soldiers. The site contains reconstructed farmstead buildings and a modern visitor ncmarkers. center with museum. com/Markers. aspx? cp=Markers&Marke North Carolina Civil WarTrails marker located on the north-eastern section of the rld=G-80 farmstead.

NCState HighwayHistorical Markerlocated on Duke Homestead Road:"BENNETT PLACE. Farm home of James Bennett, where Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to Union Gen. William T. Sherman, Apr. 26, 1865. Johnston's surrender followed Lee's at Appomattox by 17 days and ended the Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida." Bennett Place Unity Monument A stone monument erected in 1923 that commemorates the 1865 troop surrender at 4409 Bennett this site (see Bennett PlaceState HistoricSite). i^S» https://docsouth. Memorial Road, ore/bennett/bennett. htm unc. Durham NC 27705 edu/commland/mo The monumentconsists of two stone pilars, onerepresenting the Unionand the nument/44/ otherrepresenting the Confederacy,which are joined bya friezethat isinscribed UNITY.The Bennett Placefarmstead wasdonated to the State of North Carolina as a http://www. historic site in the early 20th century by the Morgan family, which owned the waymarking. property at the time. The donation includedfunds for a memorial to be erected. The com/waymarks/W State convened a Bennett Place Memorial Commission, andthe monument was MCll_Unity_Monu erected in 1923. ment_Bennett Plac e_Historic Site Our A bronzeplaque at the monumenttells the storyof the surrender and reads in part, ham North Car "THIS MONUMENT THUS MARKS THE SPOT WHERE THE MILITARY FORCE OF THE UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA FINALLY TRIUMPHED AND ESTABLISHED AS INVIOLATE THE PRINCIPLEOF AN INDISSOLUBLEUNION. IT MARKSALSO THE SPOT OF THE LAST STAND OF THE CONFEDERAQ' IN MAINTAINING ITS IDEAL OF INDESTRUCTIBLE STATES-ANIDEAL WHICH PRESERVEDTO THE AMERICAN UNION BY VIRTUE OF THE HEROIC FIGHT GROWS IN STRENGTH FROM YEAR TO YEAR." Brassfield Station Civil WarTrails InApril 1865,Union cavalrymen pursued retreating Confederates through this area 2901S. Miami Marker org/ma rker. asQj* toward Durham'sStation. This was the final skermish of the warbefore the surrender Boulevard. Durham marker=i47lo civilwartrail; and the only fighting to occur in the area that is now Durham County. NC 27703 orgMgcs/NC PDF- [uide.pdf North Carolina Civil WarTrails marker is located on the north side of Durham Fire Station »13.

Cameron Grove Cemetery Burialground for the enslaved people on the Plantation. Containsat least Old Oxford 100marked graves and an unknownnumber of unmarked graves. Cemetery is Highway, Mangum cemeterycensus. stapville. locatedon privateproperty. Accessto thesite maybe arranged through Historic Township, Durham com/nc/durh/ceml org/historv/the- Stagville. NC 27712 21. htm family-gravevard/ Durham Confederate Soldiers Bronze and granite statue erected in 1924that commemorates Confederatesoldiers 200 E. Main Street, httES;yydocsoutfa.unc http://www. Monument cdu/l. ommland/mnni from Durham.A bronzestatue of an unnamedConfederate soldier stands on topof a Durham NC 27701 fltAlfi/ waymarking. granite column that hastwo brasslamps and a stackof three cannonballsat its base. com/waymarks/W The granite column is inscribed MATQ IN MEMORYOF / "THE BOYS WHO/ WORETHE GRAY" DEDICATED MAY 10TH. 1924 https://www. dconc. THIS MEMORIAL / ERECTED BY / THE PEOPLE OF / DURHAM COUNTY. gov/Home/Compon ents/News/News/4 The monument, whichwas dedicated on May10, 1924,stands on thegrounds of the 574/31?backlist=% Old Durham County Courthouse, whichcurrently housesthe chambersof the Durham 2F County Boardof Commissionersand the Registerof Deeds.Funds were raised by the R. F.Webb Camp ofthe United Confederate Veterans and the Julian S. Carr Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and also by a local tax on the citizens of Durham amounting to $5/000, authorized by the State Legislature.

On August 24, 2017, the bronze statue was pulled down from the column by protesters who had gathered in response to a rumored rally of the Ku Klux Klan and in response to a violent white-supremadst rally in Charlottesville, VA a few days earlier. The badly damanged statue was placed into storage by the City of Durham Police. The granite base continued to be vadalized periodically in the year following the statue's removal.At the publicationof this report, thegranite base stands on itsoriginal site, and the statue remains in storage. D4CMMCatalogue: All knownConfederate monuments andother remnants of the Confederacy or the history of enslavement in Durha

Address Web Address Additional Citations Name Description 2828 Duke httas: https://www.hmdb. Duke Homestead State Historic National Historic Landmark and State Historic Site features the Duke family's mid- Homestead Road, //dukehomestead. org/marker. asp? Site and Tobacco Museum 1800s home. tobacco barns and original factory. Interpretation of the farmstead demonstrates life for a yeoman farmer in the 19th century and the beginings of the Durham NC 2770S ore/ markep=37834 Duke tobacco manufacturing empire. Washington Duke owned one enslaved person and hired the labor of other enslaved people owned by neighbors, which was typical National Register of a farmer of his scale. The operations at the Duke homestead can be contrasted Nomination: http: with the massive scale plantation farming at Stagville, elsewhere in Durham County. //www. hpo. ncdcr. Washington Duke was a Confederate veteran, having been drafted into the gov/nr/DHOOOS.pdf Confederate Navy in 1863. https://www. North Carolina Civil War Trails marker is located in the parking area. ncmarkers. com/Markers.aspx? NCState Highway Historical Markerlocated on DukeStreet at CarverStreet: "DUKE cp=Markers&Marke HOMESTEAD.Birthplace of J. B. and B. N. Duke,tobacco and hydroelectric magnates, rld=G-63 philanthropists(, the DukeEndowment), is 1 mi.S. W." https://www. hmdb. Durham's Station A NorthCarolina Civil War Trails marker indicates the siteof the Durham'sStation Intersectionof railroad depot, which was established in 1853 when Dr. Bartlett Durham donated Blackwell Street ore/marker. asp? fouracres of landfor a railroadstation andpost office. In 1865,approximately 100 andDillard Street, marker-14674 people lived in the Durham settlement. The Civil WarTrails marker reads in part, "On Durham NC27701 April 17, 1865, Union Gen. William T. Sherman arrived by train at Durham's Station (two blocksnortheast of here) atthe culmination of hisCarolinas Campaign to discuss terms of peace at the request of Confederate Gen. Joseph E.Johnston, headquarteredin nearby Hillsborough."

North Carolina Civil WarTrails marker is located at the northeast comer of the intersection of Blackwell and Dillard Streets. http: http://www. Seer Street Cemetery Established in 1877as a public cemetery for African-American residents of Durham. 800 Colonial Street, There are about 100 marked graves and an unknown number of many more Durham NC 27701 //cemetervcensus. friendsofgeer. com/ unmarkedgraves. The cemetery was closed by the city in 1939,and many of the com/nc/durh/cem2 more prominentburials were relocated to BeechwoodCemetery. This cemetery 52. htm http://www. would have beenthe burial location of many people who were formerly enslaved. opendurham. org/buildings/geer- cemetery Red Mill Road, http: Harris Hill Cemetery Historic cemetery used as a burial ground by enslaved people on the Stagville Plantation and their descendents.Also known asthe Halliburton-Holloway Family Mangum Township/ //cemetervcensus. Cemetery.The site haseight marked graves and an unknownnumber of unmarked Durham NC 27712 mm/nc/durh/ceml burials. 32.htm Locatedon the StagvillePlantation land, on a knoll eastof RedMill Roadand north of the Little River. National Register Horton Grove Partof the Stagville State Historic Site, Horton Grove is separately listed on the 5925Jock Road, National Register of Historic Places for its significance in preservation of the history of Durham NC27712 Nomination: http: enslaved people. The site includes a late 18th century house (likely the Horton House, ore/historv/enslave //www. hpo. ncdcr. later purchasedby RichardBenehan, owner of Stagville), four two-story slave cabins, d-communitv/ gov/nr/DH0003.pdf the Great Barn, and several tobacco bams. https://en. The slave cabins are unique in the state of North Carolina. Each is a two-story, four- wikipedia. room wood structure built on a raised stone foundation. Each room had a fireplace org/wiki/Horton_Gr and would have been the dwelling place for a family or group of 5-7 enslaved people. ove The cabins were built by the enslaved craftsmen on the plantation and were of unusuallyfine constructionfor stave dwellings. Followingthe CivilWar, many of the peopleenslaved at Stagville continued to work the land as share croping farmers and continued to live in the cabins. The buildings were occupied into the mid-20th century. Archaeological exploration of the site has revealed the foundationsof another row of four cabinsand manyartifacts of enslaved life. The state historic site offers tours and interpretation of the history of enslaved life on the plantation. D4CMMCatalogue: All knownConfederate monuments andother remnants ofthe Confederacy orthe history of enslavement in Durha

Name Description Address Web Address Additional Citations Julian S. Carr Highway Marker NC State Highway Historical Marker located on West Chapel Hill Street: "JULIAN S. W. Chapel Hill https;//www. https://docsouth. CARR1845-1924. Industrialist & civicleader. Benefactorof Trinity College. Headed Street, near the ncmarkers. unc. United Confederate Veterans.Grave 1/4 mi. S." intersection with com/Markers.aspx? edu/commland/mo Hope Valley Road, cp^Markers&Marke nument/118/ This state highway historical marker references the grave of Julian S. Carr in Durham NC 27701 rld=G-101 MaplewoodCemetery. Carrwas a wealthytobacco businessman, philanthropist, and https://www. Confederateveteran. He servedas the Commander-in-Chiefof the United ncpedia. Confederate Veterans, which awarded him the honorary rank of General, by which org/biography/carr- Carr was known. Carr was very supportive of the work of the United Confederate julian-shakespeare Veterans,the UnitedDaughters of the Confederacy(the Durhamchapter was named in his honor), the Ku Klux Klan, and their campaigns to memorialize the Confederate https://exhibits.lib. cause in the early 20th century. unc. edu/items/show/55 Carr was the chair of committee to erect the Confederate memorial in Durham in the 19 1920's, but he resigned in protest when the city would not provide the funds that he consideredsufficient for a propermemorial. Followinghis resignation the Julian S. CarrChapter of the UnitedDaughters of the Confederacytook on the project and were able to raise funds only for a relatively inexpensive monument, which was dedicated on May 10, 1924, 11 days after Carr's death. A tribute to Carr was included in the dedication ceremony for the Durham monument.

Carr also spoke at the 1913 dedication of the Confederate Monument at UNC-Chapel Hill, knownas Silent Sam. Hisspeech revealedthe depthof hisfeelings of white- supremacyand the motivation ofmany in erectingsuch memorials. Excerptsinclude: "Their (the Confederate soldier] courage and steadfastness saved the very life ofthe Anglo Saxon race in the South. When 'the bottom rail was on top' all over the Southern states, andto-day, asa consequence, the purest strain ofthe Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States - Praise God. " and "One hundred yards from wherewe stand, less than ninetydays perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench, until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streetsof this quietvillage she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southernlady." Leigh Farm A 19thcentury farmstead owned and operated as a historicsite and public park by 370 Leigh Farm https://www. http://www. the Cityof Durham.The site includesthe Leighfamily house (c. 1835with later Road, Durham NC )rplaymore. opendurham. additions), several outbuildings, and two wood cabins believed to have been slave 27707 org/faciljties/fadlitv org/buildings/leigh- quarters.The site was the residenceof RichardStanford Leigh and his family, who in /details/leighfarmp farm 1860 owned approximately 1, 000acres of land andsixteen enslaved people. The City ark-40 ofDurham provides interpretive tours ofthe historicbuildings and offers educational National Register programming at the site. Nomination: http: //www. hpo. ncdcr. The 82. 8 acre site includes the 7-acre historic site, greenway and hiking trails, the gov/nr/DHOOOS.pdf Durham Orange Recreational Disk Association's disk golf course, and the Piedmont Wildlife Center. Maplewood Cemetery Cemetery dating back to 1869, owned and operated by the City of Durham. Still in 1621 Duke https://www. http: usetoday. Manyof Durham'smost prominent residentsfrom the 19thcentury and University Road, dLscoverdurham. //cemeterycensus. several Civil Warveterans are buried here. Durham NC 27701 com/listinfis/MapIe com/nc/durh/cemO wood- SS.htm Cemeterv/1797/ http://www. opendurham. org/buildings/mapl Stagville ewood-cemetery NCState HistoricSite that includesa portion ofwhat was once one of the largest 5828Old Oxford http://www. https://www. plantationsin the South. The Stagville plantation was owned by the Benehan- Highway,Durham stagville. org/ ncmarkers. Cameronfamily, whichin the mid-19thcentury owned almost 30, 000acres of land NC27712 com/Mar(

NCState Highway Historical Marker located on US501 (Roxboro Road) in Braggtown. "STASVILLE. Plantation established by Richard Bennehan in 1776. Later a part of vast holdingsof the Cameron family. House is 7 miles northeast." West Point on the Eno Oncea mill village, nowone of two City of Durhamheritage parks. West Point was 5101N.Roxboro http://www. National Register marked by Union General Sherman asthe northern end of a truce line separating his Road, Durham NC enoriver.org/whst- Nomination:http: forces from the Confederates. Union cavalrymen patrolled the surrounding area and 27704 we- //www.hpo.ncdcr. camped here duringthe surrendernegotiations at the Bennett farm. protect/parks/west- go»/nr/DH0519.pdf point-on-the-eno/ North Carolina Civil War Trails marker is located in the parking area. https://www. discoverdurham. com/listings/West- Point-on-the- Eno/1497/