by Nancy Griffith | Mar 14, 2024 | Davidson History, Local, News
Search for: NEWS Miss Maude Vinson: An Article for Women’s History Month In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d write about two of Davidson’s influential women teachers. The first is Maude Vinson, the daughter of Davidson professor William D....
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 27, 2024 | Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS The Dave McLean Community Center: by Nancy Griffith for Black History Month The Ada Jenkins Center as we know it today was preceded by an earlier community center sponsored by the Davidson College YMCA and the Women’s Civic League. In 1938, the...
by Jane Campbell | Feb 26, 2024 | Davidson History, Local, News, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS History Lost, and Preserving Some That Remains We have a sad update to the article we published a little over a week ago, followed by a little bit of good news on the topic of historic preservation. The old farmhouse on Highway 115, just north...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 18, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS In Honor of Black History Month: Echoes of Slavery, the Byers Family, by Historian Nancy Griffith Andy Byers, a neighbor whom Ralph Johnson referred to in his book David Played a Harp, was enslaved by James S. Byers of Iredell County, as was his...
by Jane Campbell | Feb 16, 2024 | Davidson History, Local, News, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS History Lost and Found: Soon to be Lost Forever If you have driven up NC 115 in recent weeks, you have likely seen the clearing of the large parcel of land on the west side of the road just before Bridges Farm Road. Late last week, the...
by Nancy Griffith | Jan 22, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Walnut Grove: a Davidson History Column by Nancy Griffith When we think of plantation houses in Davidson, our minds usually turn to Beaver Dam, the Davidson plantation on Concord Road. There was, however, a large plantation much closer to downtown,...