by Nancy Griffith | Feb 18, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Rosenwald Schools: Special Davidson History Column for Black History Month (Thanks to our Davidson History Columnist, Nancy Griffith, News of Davidson is proud to publish this important piece of history to honor Black History Month.) In...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 10, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Davidson: The Bicycle Town Since Davidson is known as such a bicycle town, I thought it would be interesting to look into the history of bicycles and when they first appeared in great numbers here in town. The first attempt at a...
by Nancy Griffith | Jan 26, 2021 | Davidson History, Top Left Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY The Fighting Parson Benjamin Rice Lacy, Jr., grandson of Davidson president Drury Lacy and a 1906 Davidson graduate, was nicknamed “The Fighting Parson” after his actions in World War I. According to the Davidsonian, while in...
by Nancy Griffith | Dec 19, 2020 | Bottom Right Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY “Dandy Jim” Douglass One of the most colorful members of Davidson College’s class of 1893 was James McDowell Douglass. “Dandy Jim,” as he was called, was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina in 1867. His...
by Nancy Griffith | Nov 12, 2020 | Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY My Family’s Time in the Sentelle-Brown House When we moved to Davidson in 1979, we had the good fortune to live at 119 South Main Street, in what was then referred to as the Sentelle-Brown House. According to local tradition,...
by Nancy Griffith | Oct 8, 2020 | Bottom Right Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Fires in Davidson, Part II There is little mention of fires in Davidson during the 1940s. According to Davidson native and former mayor John Woods, at that time the fire department was located in a building attached to the south side of...
