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...
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...
by Nancy Griffith | Dec 29, 2022 | Davidson History, News, Top Middle Box
Search for: NEWS Life in Davidson in the Early 1870s On May 26, 1939, the Chapel Hill Weekly published Lucy Phillips Russell’s memories of life in Davidson in the 1870s. This account is enhanced by the contents of a letter Lucy wrote in 1920, and some observations by...
by Nancy Griffith | Dec 2, 2022 | Bottom Right Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Early Twentieth Century Davidson Medical Doctors Davidson’s tradition of fine doctors continued into the twentieth century. One of the early new arrivals was Zoro Knox Justice, who was born in Henderson County on February 22, 1872. He was a man of...
by Nancy Griffith | Nov 20, 2022 | Davidson History, News, Sports, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS Davidson History: Gobblers and Pigskins As we anticipate Thanksgiving, many of us think of football in addition to turkey and all the trimmings. In earlier times, however, Davidson fans could watch football in a much more up-close and personal way…an...
