by Nancy Griffith | Mar 9, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Right Black Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY During the early years of Davidson College, faculty wives and women of the town opened their homes to the students. According to Davidson historian Cornelia Shaw, they were “no inconsiderable factor in making the life at Davidson what it...
by Nancy Griffith | Mar 2, 2019 | Bottom Right Red Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY (Editor’s Note: March is Women’s History Month and News of Davidson will feature stories and articles pertaining to women, both in the past and present, who have made a contribution to life in Davidson. We kick off the month...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 27, 2019 | Bottom Right Red Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Centre Church, one of seven colonial-era churches in Mecklenburg County, sits just north of Davidson in Iredell County. Records indicate that John Thompson served as a Presbyterian missionary in the area in the 1740s, and around 1755,...
by Jane Campbell | Feb 25, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Davidson History, News, Sports
Search for: SPORTS Where were you thirty years ago? Specifically, where were you thirty years ago – Saturday, February 25, 1989 – at roughly 7:30 p.m.? Wildcat basketball fans from near and far converged on Johnston Gym for the final basketball game in the venue that...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 5, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Right Black Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY In 1887, Davidson College hired Henry Louis Smith, one of its 1881 graduates, as professor of natural sciences (physics and astronomy). He was to become what Winston-Salem’s Western Sentinel described in 1893 as “that well beloved...
by Nancy Griffith | Jan 30, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Left Red Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY As a new writer on the history of Davidson and Davidson College, I am reliant on those who came before me and who either wrote about the town and college or collected resources upon which I can base my research. Wherever I turn, the path...
