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Durham NC

Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/) is a city in and the county seat of Durham County[6] in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Small portions of the Durham city limits extend into Orange County and Wake County. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city’s population to be 251,893 as of July 1, 2014, making it the 4th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 79th-most populous city in the United States.[7] The city is located in […]

Geography of Clayton NC

Clayton is in northern Johnston County, with a small portion extending northwest along US 70 Business into Wake County. In 2006, construction began on the Highway 70 Clayton Bypass, a 10.5-mile (16.9 km) stretch from Interstate 40 along the southern portion of Clayton to Highway 70 business southeast of town. It was completed in June 2008. US 70 leads southeast […]

William Dodd

William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 – February 9, 1940)[2] was an American historian, author and diplomat. A liberal Democrat, he served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during the Nazi era. Initially a holder of the slightly Antisemitic notions of his times,[3] he went to Germany with instructions from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to do what he could to protest Nazi […]

Kendra Harrison

Kendra “Keni“ Harrison (born September 18, 1992) is an American hurdler. She represented the United States at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics and the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Harrison set the world record in the women’s 100 metres hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds on July 22, 2016 at the London Müller Anniversary Games. She broke the world record of 12.21 set 28 years […]

History of Clayton NC

The community which has grown into the town of Clayton was built on a road cut by Governor Tryon‘s troops around 1770 as they marched northwest from New Bern to Hillsborough against the Regulators. Nearly 100 years later the railroad came through and the community had its first name—Stallings’ Station, since the depot for the North Carolina Railroad was in the […]