Centennial Spotlights look back at the people who had an impact on Duke in its first hundred years, how they contributed to its meteoric rise and the trajectory they helped to set for the university that has endured through its first centennial and will continue to guide us into Duke’s second century.
George & George-Frank Wall
After Trinity College moved to Durham in 1892, school janitor and handyman George Wall later moved to Durham and continued working as a custodian on the new campus. He purchased a small property and built a house near East Campus, Wall became a leader in the growing working-class community, eventually named “Walltown.”
