by Nancy Griffith | Dec 19, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Left Red Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Furman L. Brodie: Pastor and Educator One of the early schools for African American children in Davidson was run by Rev. Furman L. Brodie, pastor of the Davidson Presbyterian Church. Furman Lawrence Brodie was born in Aiken County, South...
by Nancy Griffith | Oct 16, 2019 | Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Typhoid Fever On July 16, 1898 the Yorkville Enquirer reprinted an article from the Gastonia Gazette on a number of cases of typhoid fever that were contracted at Davidson’s commencement. Typhoid fever results from ingesting water...
by Nancy Griffith | Sep 18, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Dire Straits The Civil War produced devastation across the South, and as Davidson College was an all-male institution, it suffered greatly during the war. According to Cornelia Shaw, 1039 young men from the classes of 1840 to 1869 fought...
by Nancy Griffith | Aug 7, 2019 | Bottom Right Red Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY All Aboard! In the early 1860s the railroad, in the form of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad (AT&O) arrived in Davidson. The AT&O was incorporated in Tennessee in 1852 and in North Carolina in 1855, with the intention of...
by Nancy Griffith | Jul 21, 2019 | Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Early Transportation in Davidson On January 20, 1857, Charlotte’s Western Democrat published an advertisement offering the Charlotte and Taylorsville Plank road for sale. According to ad, “The Road extends from Charlotte via...
by Nancy Griffith | Jul 2, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY The Man Who Would Be President In the fall of 1873, the young son of a Wilmington pastor, and a future President of the United States, arrived at Davidson College as a freshman. Although he remained only a year, he maintained a lifelong...
