Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

Duke Homestead State Historic Site in Durham deciphers the historical backdrop of the Duke family and the ascent and inevitable decay of the North Carolina tobacco industry.Washington Duke went to these terrains in 1852. His first spouse had passed away in 1847, however in 1852 he remarried and fabricated the interesting minimal white house on the omestead as a wedding present for his second wife, Artelia Rooney. The Duke omestead was iginally a cotton homestead and Washington Duke cultivated the staple - alongside corn, sweet tatoes and different yields - until 1859. It was a period of incredible disaster for the man. Artelia and one of the kids passed on in 1858 from typhoid fever. The cotton trim fizzled. What's more, obviously, the dull billows of the Civil War were approaching on the horizon.