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Durham gets state preservation money
Submitted by jaydub on 05/22/2009 - 12:53
Times may be tight, but the cash-strapped state of North Carolina has awarded Durham County $12,000 to prepare a National Register nomination for Stokesdale.
"Stokesdale" is the name applied to a neighborhood north and northwest of N.C. Central University, a historically black district of bungalows and period-revival homes.
The state money is being matched through the City of Durham by the Shepard Alliance for Enlightenment, a foundation established by Carolyn Green Boone of Durham. Boone is the great-great granddaughter of NCCU founder James Shepard.
Durham is one of 10 counties getting $84,164 in state historic-preservation grants.
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Jim Wise is a Durham News/N&O reporter and columnist who follows city and county government land-use and neighborhood issues. He's author of "Durham: A Bull City Story" and "Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day That Was and More ... "
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