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Forgotten History II: Plantations near Davidson

by Nancy Griffith | Mar 7, 2023 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News

Search for: NEWS Forgotten History II: Plantations near Davidson The local slave population was much larger when one considers the numerous large plantations around Davidson, situated in both Mecklenburg and Iredell counties. Slaveowners had settled the region during...

Unrecorded History

by Nancy Griffith | Mar 2, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News

Search for: NEWS Unrecorded History ​The antebellum history of Davidson and its surrounding communities is rich with accounts of Davidson College, merchants and professionals, prominent families, schools, churches, historic homes, and the plantations that remain from...

Davidson’s First Kindergarten

by Nancy Griffith | Feb 23, 2023 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News

Search for: NEWS Davidson’s First Kindergarten Publicly-funded kindergartens were common in the Northeast and Midwest by 1960. I attended one such kindergarten in Pennsylvania in 1951, under my kind but formidable teacher, Miss Fawcett. North Carolina and the other...

Davidson College’s Humble Beginnings

by Nancy Griffith | Feb 6, 2023 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News, Stories from Davidson College

Search for: NEWS Davidson College’s Humble Beginnings On January 17, 1837, the Cheraw Gazette published an account of the fledgling Davidson College, taken in part from the Southern Christian Herald. Projected to open in March of that year, the new institution would...

When Dancing Finally Came to Davidson College

by Nancy Griffith | Jan 16, 2023 | Davidson History, News, Top Left Box

Search for: NEWS When Dancing Finally Came to Davidson College It may have seemed strange to read about the prohibition on dancing in Davidson described in the accounts of Lucy Phillips Russell and her Aunt Cornelia Phillips Spencer. In our modern minds, dancing is...
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