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In the late 1860s, Washington Duke left the Confederate army and walked 137 miles back to his farm in Durham, where he took up life again as a tobacco farmer. That first year, he started grinding and packaging the crop to sell in small packets. In 1880, he decided that there was a future in cigarettesthen a new ideaand, along with his three sons, set to work to manufacture them on a small scale. By 1890, the family had formed the American Tobacco Company, and a legendary American manufacturing empire was underway.
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AttractionsBrightleaf Square
905 W Main Street
Durham, North Carolina 27701 Distance: 0.7 mi. (from destination center) Sarah P. Duke Gardens
(Duke University West Campus)
426 Anderson Street Durham, North Carolina 27708 Distance: 1.8 mi. (from destination center) Duke University Chapel
Duke University West Campus
Chapel Drive Durham, North Carolina 27708 Distance: 2.1 mi. (from destination center) AirportsMajor Airports near Durham
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