THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH A DURHAM LENS

Historical perspective is key to destination marketing. To tell a community’s story, it is important to weave what’s unique about its past and relate that in some temporal sense to its future. In a little more than a week, DCVB will launch a micro site that tells about the Civil War through a Durham lens.

This is all in the build up to the 150th or sesquicentennial anniversary of this incredible part of our nation’s history beginning in 2011 through 2015.

Here is a snapshot of the Civil War’s imprimatur on Durham. As with today, Durham was a place where great things happen.