{"id":183,"date":"2019-11-04T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=183"},"modified":"2019-11-13T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:24:35","slug":"durham","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Durham County, formed April 17, 1881,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has a current population of 316,739 and a total employment of 201,889 (63.7%). The county seat is the city of Durham, about 30 minutes from NC State&#8217;s main campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adjacent to NC State&#8217;s home county of Wake, Durham is a partner with Wake and Orange counties in sharing the 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park, the nation&#8217;s largest research park. A vision of academics from NC State and Duke with support from then-Governor Luther Hodges, RTP employs more than 65,000 workers and contractors at some 300 large- and medium-sized campuses throughout the region. Most of RTP&#8217;s land is in Durham County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Durham County\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is nursery\/floriculture, while the largest product by acreage is forage-land (for grain production). By total number, the largest livestock produced is cattle and calves\/layers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest manufacturer is IBM Corp., which is also the county&#8217;s third largest employer overall with nearly 10,000 employees at the company&#8217;s largest U.S.-based facility. An original tenant of the RTP, IBM manufactures computer software, storage systems and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-183","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/183\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}