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They want $500,000 to breathe new life into the century-old home of NC’s first Black funeral director. Durham residents ask for city’s help to renovate historic Black home into hotel Skip to ...
Hayti (pronounced "HAY-tie"), also called Hayti District, is the historic African-American community that is now part of the city of Durham, North Carolina. [1] It was founded as an independent black community shortly after the American Civil War on the southern edge of Durham by freedmen coming to work in tobacco warehouses and related jobs in the city.
He and his brother established the C. E. Lightner and Brothers construction company and built numerous homes for members of Raleigh's black middle class. Lightner established the first funeral home for black customers in Raleigh along East Hargett Street. He proceeded to construct numerous commercial buildings along the road, thus sparking a ...
Geer Cemetery (1876–1939), is an African-American cemetery located on Colonial Street between McGill Place and Camden Avenue in northeast Durham, North Carolina. It has also been known as City Cemetery, Old City Cemetery, East Durham Cemetery, and Mason Cemetery. [1] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. [2]
Christopher Weaver, an owner of Weaver & Peaks Funeral Care, checks on the floral arrangements before the funeral of five-year-old Khloe Fennell at Immanuel Temple Church in Durham, N.C., Friday ...
Beechwood Cemetery is a city-owned cemetery in Durham, North Carolina, established in 1924 or 1926. Maplewood, the city's other public cemetery was historically white while Beechwood is historically black stemming from the city's segregation at their inception. [1] It is the burial location of key Black figures in Durham's history. [2] [3]
Led by a collection of Black-owned businesses, a block in East Durham continues its development momentum with the addition of the neighborhood’s first brewery.
A homegoing (or home-going) service is an African-American and Black-Canadian Christian funeral tradition marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven. History [ edit ]