by Nancy Griffith | Nov 18, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Black Barbershops: A Davidson Tradition, Part II, The Nortons Most longtime Davidson residents remember Norton’s Barbershop, most recently owned by Ken Norton. Ken, however, was not the first barber in the family. This distinction goes to his uncle,...
by Nancy Griffith | Oct 12, 2021 | Davidson History, News, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS Black Barber Shops: A Davidson Tradition Editors’ Note: This article uses verbatim language from a bygone era, language that would not be appropriate today. It is used in an illustrative manner to tell this important historical aspect of...
by Nancy Griffith | Sep 20, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, Local, News, Stories from Davidson College
Search for: NEWS Davidson College in the Late ’20s An interesting digital document in the Davidson College Archives is the scrapbook of Aubrey Brown of Mineral Springs, Texas, who graduated in 1929. The following excerpts from his letters describe life at the...
by Nancy Griffith | Aug 12, 2021 | Davidson History, Local, News, Top Middle Box
Search for: NEWS Davidson College in 1888 In his book “Memories of Davidson College,” former college president Walter Lingle described what the college was like when he enrolled in 1888. Things on today’s large modern campus are quite different than what he...
by Nancy Griffith | Jul 27, 2021 | Davidson History, News, Top Left Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Life at Davidson College in the 1840s and 1850s Cornelia Shaw, in her history of Davidson College, writes of an unsigned sketch entitled “Davidson in the Forties,” which was found among the papers of Dr. Jethro Rumple, who graduated in...
by Nancy Griffith | Jun 17, 2021 | Bottom Right Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Native Americans in Mecklenburg County During the late nineteenth century, occasional newspaper reports appeared detailing sightings of the remnants of the area’s Catawba Indians. In 1886 the Charlotte Chronicle mentioned the...
