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Duke University

address 615 Chapel Drive
Box 90563
Durham, NC 27708
phone (919) 684-2823
website http://www.duke.edu
admissions website http://www.duke.edu/admissions.html
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then-named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892. In December 1924, the provisions of James B. Duke's indenture created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.

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Duke University's information last updated Jan 28, 2007 02:55 PM