Download or read book Durham County written by Jean Bradley Anderson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Download or read book Durham County written by Jean Bradley Anderson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad, sweeping history of Durham County, Jean Bradley Anderson begins with a discussion of the geography, climate, and geology of the region from the seventeenth century to 1981, its centennial year. This remarkably comprehensive work moves beyond traditional local histories that focus on powerful families. Rather, Anderson integrates the stories of well-known figures with those of ordinary men and women, blacks and whites, to create a complex but fascinating portrait of Durham's economic, political, social, and labor history.Drawing on extensive primary research, Durham County examines the origins of the town of Durham and recounts the growth of communities around mills, stores, taverns, and churches in the century preceding the rise of tobacco manufacturing. It examines all phases of life in the county: agriculture, architecture, the arts, education, industry, politics, and religion. Anderson pays particular attention to such turning points as the coming of the railroad; the Confederate surrender at the Bennett Place; the war's connection to the rise and flourishing of the tobacco industry; the move to Durham of Trinity College; the development of the Research Triangle Park and the subsequent rise of the health service and high-tech industries.
Download or read book County Durham written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.
Download or read book An Historical Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham written by Eneas Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham written by William Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of County Durham written by Douglas Charles David Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Durham written by Martin Dufferwiel and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic City of Durham is now over 1,000 years old. With its magnificent Norman Cathedral and Castle it has become a world famous tourist attraction, the outstanding importance of which was recognised in 1987 when it was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.Martin Dufferveil's book is a celebration of this unique City and of the Country that has grown up around it, from the day in AD 995 when a group of monks carrying the coffin of St Cuthbert settled on what was then known as the 'Dunholm' to the present time. From the original site on the high wooded rock, a settlement began to take shape. It was one which would be swelled by pilgrims and made wealthy by their offerings, and which would eventually become one of the most important sites of religious pilgrimage and military power in England. Many events and people have, throughout the last millennium, lit up the long story of Durham, in both fact and fable. This book recalls some of them. Wars, saints, kings and mythical beasts are all included in this tale of over 1,000 years as are surveyors, locomotive engineers and miners. It is all here from the long sagas of the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War, to the legendary Lampton Worm; from Canute the Great, Viking Emperor, to murder most foul at Gutty Throat Farm; and from the ravages of William the Conqueror, to the bizarre plan to turn Durham City into a port. Steam locomotives for the Tsar of Russia and Dixieland in the USA both had their origins here in Durham, and both feature in this book.
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham written by James Raine and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham written by Whellan, William, & Co and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Atlas of County Durham written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Durham written by William Page and published by London :$[A. Constable, limited]. This book was released on 1905 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham written by William Fordyce and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham written by Robert Surtees and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COUNTY DURHAM A RARE INSIGHT written by ARAF. CHOHAN and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham written by Robert Surtees and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Durham written by William Page and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
