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The Durham Performing Arts Center (often called the DPAC) opened November 30, 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas at a cost of $48 million. The DPAC hosts over 200 performances a year including touring Broadway productions, high-profile concert and comedy events, family shows and the American Dance Festival .
1968 - City Human Relations Commission [24] and Women-in-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes [17] [24] established. 1969. March 11: Student demonstration. [11] [18] North Carolina Central University active. Duke University's School of Business and Museum of Art established. [18] 1970.
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County).
In 1969, newly appointed director Charles Reinhart shortened the name to, simply, the American Dance Festival. After 30 years at the Connecticut College campus, the festival moved, in 1978, to the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Since its founding in 1934, The American Dance Festival has been the home to over six hundred ...
Carolina Theatre of Durham, Inc. is the 5th-largest performing arts organization in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, which encompasses Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The nonprofit presents nearly 100 concerts and comedy performances per year, more than any major venue in the market, and has been among the smallest venues ...
Important arteries for traffic include NC 147, which connects Duke University, downtown, and Research Triangle Park, U.S. 15-501 between Durham and Chapel Hill, I-85, connecting Durham to Virginia and western North Carolina cities, and I-40 running across southern Durham County between the Research Triangle Park and Chapel Hill. The I-40 ...
November 1, 1977. Downtown Durham Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 97 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Durham. The buildings primarily date from the first four decades of the 20th century and include ...
4409 Bennett Memorial Rd. 36°01′45″N 78°58′32″W. / 36.029167°N 78.975556°W / 36.029167; -78.975556 ( Bennett Place State Historic Site) Durham. Site of the largest surrender of Confederate troops during the Civil War, April 26, 1865 [6] 4. Mary Duke Biddle Estate.