Genlee, North Carolina

Genlee, North Carolina
Unincorporated community
Genlee Location within the state of North Carolina
Coordinates: 35°52′16″N 78°53′29″W / 35.87111°N 78.89139°W / 35.87111; -78.89139Coordinates: 35°52′16″N 78°53′29″W / 35.87111°N 78.89139°W / 35.87111; -78.89139
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
County	Durham
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)

Genlee is an unincorporated community in southern Durham County, North Carolina along the Durham and Wake County line. The community is centered on the intersection of North Carolina Highway 55 and South Alston Avenue, near the old Durham and Southern Railway.

The community was originally named Togo, after a Japanese city, in 1904 when the first railroad depot was established. The name of the community was changed to Genlee to honor Confederate General Robert E. Lee following the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941 (Powell 1968, p. 188).

References

Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1

Municipalities and communities of Durham County, North Carolina, United States

County seat: Durham

Cities	Durham‡ Raleigh‡

Towns	Chapel Hill‡ Morrisville‡

CDPs	Gorman Rougemont‡

Unincorporated communities	Bahama Bethesda Blands Genlee Joyland Nelson Oak Grove

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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