Excerpt from Hill Directory Co. 'S (Incorporated), Durham, N. C., City Directory, 1923, Vol. 12: Embracing an Alphabetical List of Business Houses and Private Citizens, a Directory of the City, County, State and National Governments, Fire Alarm Boxes, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Secret and Benevolent Institutions, Banks After the war Durham's population rapidly increased. The station became a town and was incorporated by the act of the General Assembly, ratified April 10, 1869. It was named for the man who gave the land on which to build the station, Dr. B. L. Durham. At the time the above bill passed the General Assembly the town of Durham was in the county of Orange. Exactly twelve years later a bill for the establishment of Durham county was ratified by the people, having been introduced in the General Assembly by the Honorable Caleb B. Green. A slice of Orange and a slice of Wake went to make up the county. Just a few years ago another part of Wake was cut off and handed over to Durham in the form of Carr township. From this small beginning Durham has grown into a thriving, progressive, wide-awake city. Its importance can best be gathered from the information which follows: area: square miles. (including districts within pro posed extension of city limits, square miles.) banks: Nine banks with combined capital and surplus of. Annual clearances of Annual debits to individual accounts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.