Bennett Place
4409 Bennett Memorial Rd
Durham, NC 27705
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1849
Durham Station
The man for whom the city of Durham is named, Bartlett Leonidas Durham (1824-1859) was born to a family who had lived in Orange County for three generations. In the mid-1840s, Durham bought 100 acres near the Hillsborough-Raleigh road, between the tavern communities of Pinhook (near present-day Ninth Street) and Prattsburg (in present-day Edgemont). Durham granted a four-acre easement for a railroad track right-of-way and a depot. The station was located at present day Pettigrew and Corcoran-Blackwell streets.