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...
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...
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...
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...
