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Description: Web site that details the historic site comprised of the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. His sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the world's largest tobacco company. Duke and others helped create a market for Durham-area tobacco products that eventually would turn North Carolina into the heart of an international tobacco empire. Many profits were invested in land and industries but others were used for such humanitarian causes as Duke University, named for the family
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Subject: Historic preservation, Tourism, Local history, Cultural resources, History of North Carolina, Landmarks
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