We adjusted our sleeping & eating schedule a bit so we did not sleep in today.
Visiting this area is known as the Triangle, which is Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill. It is in reference to the three major universities North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University in Durham and North Carolina State University at Raleigh.
Our hotel is in Raleigh and today we visited Chapel Hill. We visited the University of North Carolina Botanical Garden and Coker Arboretum. They were nice gardens. We were particularly interested in the carnivorous plants. Pictures are coming. Some of these plants are only found here, more than half of the species are native here! We just saw a story on the Venus flytrap on TV, now endangered!
Next we visited Duke U in Durham. It is a private university with more graduate students than under-grad. Graduation is this week so the campus was busy. We visited the chapel, which is the tall tower you see in pictures. Very nice, The buildings are mostly Gothic. We walked around the campus visited the Union, the quad and the library and of course their gardens.
Next we visited Bennett Place where Union Major General Wm T Sherman and Confederate Grnl Joseph Johnston negotiated the surrender mirroring Grant & Lee surrender at Appomattox. Not all general believed the war was over, but Johnston believed it was a lost cause.
We wrapped up our day at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham, which was home to Lucky Strike cigarettes. Now converted to a community space. It's still got the smoke stacks (ha ha) but now stores, restaurants and offices, nicely landscaped.
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