The Person Behind the Name

The Person Behind the Name The Person Behind the Name The Person Behind the Name

Do you know the person your street, school, and town is named after?

Come on… take a guess !!!

Buildings • Trump Tower • Sears Tower • The American Tobacco Complex • Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall / Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Hall – America's cultural showplace. Know for its famous concerts in New York City. Andrew Carnegie – An Industrialist and millionaire. Mr. Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant was know for his” Rags to Riches” life story. In 1901 he sold his steel company for 480 million dollars. He was responsible for establishing several education foundations where he donated millions. www.carnegiehall.org/article/the_basics/art_tours.html

Continue: Buildings • Trump Tower: New York City • Named After: Donald Trump ( Real Estate Guru, Star of the “Apprentice” • Sears Tower: Chicago, IL • Name After: Richard Sears ( Founder of Sears, Roebuck & Co. ) • The American Tobacco Complex : Durham, NC • Named After/ Owners: The Duke Family ( Tobacco Farmers, Factory Owners )

Cities/Towns/States • Durham, North Carolina • Raleigh, North Carolina • Virginia • Pennsylvania

Durham, North Carolina • Durham, North Carolina was named after Dr. BartlettDurham in the 1800’s. • He was a well known and respected man who sold 4 important acres of land to the town so that they may build a railroad. • Before the town was named after Dr. Durham, it was called Adshusheer. The Eno tribe was known to inhabit the area which served as a major trail in the Trading path throughout NC and VA. http://www.owdna.org/history12.htm

Continue: Towns, Cities,& States • Raleigh, NC: Capital of North Carolina • Named After: Sir Walter Raleigh conceived and organized the colonizing expeditions to America that ended tragically with the “lost colony” expeditions on Roanoke Island, N.C.

…. The States • Virginia – The part of the 13 colonies, named after The virgin queen Elizabeth I. The queen never married but was a close friend of Sir Walter Raleigh. • Pennsylvania – A part of the middle colonies, PA was founded by William Penn a Quaker who named the colony after his late father.

Schools/Universities • Duke University • Bethune-Cookman College • Sherwood Githens Middle School

Duke University/ Washington Duke • Washington Duke (1820-1905), industrialist and philanthropist, was born on his parents' farm, located on the Little River in what was then part of Orange County, in North Carolina. He once said that he considered himself very poor twice in his life--first, when he began making a living with nothing but "willing hands and a stout heart" and second, upon returning to his home after the Civil War. In the first instance he made a modest living farming, and in the second, he grew wealthy by turning to the manufacture of tobacco products

Bethune-Cookman CollegeMary McCloud-Bethune • Born near Mayesville, S.C. on July 10, 1875, on a rice and cotton farm, Mary Jane McLeod was the fifteenth of seventeen children. • She is the founder of Bethune –Cookman College in Daytona, Florida , and The National Council for Negro Women. • B.C.C still exists as a private institute for higher learning. www.bethune.cookman.edu/

Sherwood Githens Middle SchoolSherwood Githens • Sherwood Githens was a highly respected member of the Durham and Duke University community where he served as a professor. • It is the vision of SherwoodGithens Middle School to develop a community oflearners which was the passion of Mr. Githens • www.githens.dpsnc.net

Now that you know the PERSON behind the NAME… Your challenge is to find information about a local street or school !

The Person Behind the Name