Where the immense Chesterfield Building sits as of 2011 was where Washington Duke made his home and began his in-town tobacco production operation. (Durham Historic Inventory) In 1884, Duke built a new brick factory, just to the east of his house and original factory. In 1888, he built a new house, which he called Fairview. Looking west, with the...
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