by Nancy Griffith | Aug 7, 2019 | Bottom Right Red Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY In the early 1860s the railroad, in the form of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad (AT&O) arrived in Davidson. The AT&O was incorporated in Tennessee in 1852 and in North Carolina in 1855, with the intention of connecting...
by Nancy Griffith | Jul 21, 2019 | Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY On January 20, 1857, Charlotte’s Western Democrat published an advertisement offering the Charlotte and Taylorsville Plank road for sale. According to ad, “The Road extends from Charlotte via Davidson College to Mt. Mourne, Iredell...
by Nancy Griffith | Jul 2, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY In the fall of 1873, the young son of a Wilmington pastor, and a future President of the United States, arrived at Davidson College as a freshman. Although he remained only a year, he maintained a lifelong fondness for the...
by Nancy Griffith | May 28, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Right Black Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY In the early 1900s, two interesting articles appeared in local newspapers about creatures who had managed to outrun the train. On April 5, 1904, the Monroe Journal reported that ‘Red Buck’, “the auburn-haired youth who collects money and...
by Nancy Griffith | Apr 9, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY In 1903, there was a tragic death at the North Carolina Medical College, then located in Davidson. In mid-January of that year, two students, John Mason (J.M.) Boyce of Blacksburg, South Carolina, and C.R. McLeod of Robeson County were...
by Nancy Griffith | Mar 27, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Right Black Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY We all know where Lake Wylie is today. But a little more than a century ago there was another lake of a similar name located right here in Davidson. On March 1, 1893 the Yorkville Enquirer reported that Davidson College students...
