by Nancy Griffith | Mar 14, 2024 | Davidson History, Local, News
Search for: NEWS Miss Maude Vinson: An Article for Women’s History Month In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d write about two of Davidson’s influential women teachers. The first is Maude Vinson, the daughter of Davidson professor William D....
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 27, 2024 | Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS The Dave McLean Community Center: by Nancy Griffith for Black History Month The Ada Jenkins Center as we know it today was preceded by an earlier community center sponsored by the Davidson College YMCA and the Women’s Civic League. In 1938, the...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 18, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS In Honor of Black History Month: Echoes of Slavery, the Byers Family, by Historian Nancy Griffith Andy Byers, a neighbor whom Ralph Johnson referred to in his book David Played a Harp, was enslaved by James S. Byers of Iredell County, as was his...
by Nancy Griffith | Jan 22, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Walnut Grove: a Davidson History Column by Nancy Griffith When we think of plantation houses in Davidson, our minds usually turn to Beaver Dam, the Davidson plantation on Concord Road. There was, however, a large plantation much closer to downtown,...
by Nancy Griffith | Jan 9, 2024 | Davidson History, Local, News
Search for: NEWS “Mr. Baseball’s” Field of Dreams Youth baseball has been a fixture in Davidson for almost 70 years. The three fields at the end of South Street have hosted almost 200,000 players and served as the site of playoff and tournament games. But it was not...