The Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail would stretch 26 miles from Old North Durham into Person County. Planners are kicking off the process with two public workshops on Feb. 4 and 5.

On Nov. 10, 1910, Booker T. Washington said that of all the Southern cities he visited, he saw the sanest attitude of white people toward the Black community in Durham. He said that he never had ...

The railroad stopped using the line in the early 1980s and doesn’t plan to put trains on it again. Street crossings have been paved over, and 40-year-old trees grow between the rails in many places.