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Just a new update to share about a really great group of BioMerieax employees who were attending a national conference here in Raleigh NC. I had a coach full of operations, sales, marketing, and support personnal that I escorted on an executive version of Tobacco Road Tours’ Historic Durham tour. We started out by coming into downtown Durham via hwy 146, came up along side of Bulls Athletic Park between American Tobacco Campus. Explained the story of Dr. Bartlett Durham and his 4 acres of land he sold for the needed train depot/station. A little bit of the seedy side of Durham…..OK….
Well, Dr. Durham was a lively man, never married, however spent alot of time with the ladies. Even died at a lady friends home I believe. So, on to a review of the Suntrust building (same architechs as the Empire State Bldg.), NC Mutual, Episcopal Church (Duke Family honored), over to Brightleaf (first reuse of Tobacco Warehouse buildings) and down by West Village, the Arts Magnet Highschool. Trinity Ave. with notes on the Duke Tower Hotel/Condos (former Pearl Mills). Over to Washingto Ave to view and talk about the olde Bulls Athletic Park where the famous movie Bull Durham was shot and produced. Up the street is the Durham farmers market and the Imperial Building (great Irish/English history and the locker room scenes from Bull Durham the movie where shot in the basement!
Over the the Bull square, Parrish & Orange Streets with great Black Wall Street history of Durhams financial & insurance services industry was born and grew to National status as the largest Black owned and managed business in the USA. The Historic Durham tour took our guests to a number of additional facinating destinations in Durham such as Gold Belt Textile mill and Durham Hosery Mill, both have been repurposed very successfully.
Before we headed out to Hurdle Mills, NC to Rock of Ages Winery & Vinyard, we must see the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina. Duke Chapel. This 1930’s magnificant chapel is not only spectacular from the outside, the real story is on the inside of the Duke Chapel. Taking several years to build, the Chapel stands 210 feet tall, 291 feet long and 63 feet wide. Much of the exterior is made with North Carolina Blue Stone which is beautiful. I could go on and on about this beautiful architectural masterpiece, however, go here to learn lots more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Chapel
On to Rock of Ages Winery. What a lovely, world class facility Kevin and Kim Moore has established. With out a doubt, their brand, product and experience provided for guests has taken the Triangle area by storm. Our group had a dedicated, team of wine experts talk about the vinyard, production, tasting, marketing of estate made wines. A wonderful assortment of cheeses, hot hors d’oeuvres and deserts made the experience all the better. We wrapped up with a tour of the production facilities and the barrell rooms. Awesome! Come take a wine country tour with us at Tobacco Road Tours. www.tobaccoroadtours.com Visit Rock of Ages Winery at www.rockofageswinery.com
Brad
