Commissioners are elected every two years on an at-large, partisan basis. 4 Durham County has one airport, a short strip called the Lakeridge Aero Park located on Falls Lake.
Neighbors keep tiny airplanes in backyard hangars.
The Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum lets visitors pack smoking tobacco and witness a pretend tobacco auction. Government leaders have begun a political process to merge city and county, but they have a long road ahead. A merger has been tried several times in the past 70 years, but all efforts have failed. 7 Durham County refuses to be Raleigh's ugly stepsister. And boosters are continually stung when anyone forgets that Research Triangle Park is almost completely inside Durham.