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American Belt Co company history timeline

1874

Blackwell’s 1874 Bull Durham Factory, which still stands at the north end of the American Tobacco Campus was the largest consumer.

1900

By 1900 Golden Belt had 48 machines cranking out 10,000-15,000 bags each day – the stringing and labeling still being done by women and children at their kitchen tables.

1950

Julian Carr’s grand mansion is now a parking lot, but the modest homes of his workers, sold to their occupants in the mid 1950’s are protected historic resources.

1968

A $2 million 34,000 sf addition was completed in 1968 enabling Golden Belt to churn out millions of those little plastic cigarette tips.

1980

Because of its association with the tobacco industry, Golden Belt held on longer than most, but by the early 1980’s, the campus – and most of Durham – was looking fairly rough.

2006

In 2006 Scientific Properties purchased the southern portion of the complex from the City for $2.6m, embarking on an ambitious adaptive re-use renovation to reimagine Buildings 2 through 7 as artist studios, apartments, retail, and office space.

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