by Nancy Griffith | Apr 9, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Davidson History
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY In 1903, there was a tragic death at the North Carolina Medical College, then located in Davidson. In mid-January of that year, two students, John Mason (J.M.) Boyce of Blacksburg, South Carolina, and C.R. McLeod of Robeson County were...
by Nancy Griffith | Mar 27, 2019 | Davidson History, Top Right Black Box
Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY We all know where Lake Wylie is today. But a little more than a century ago there was another lake of a similar name located right here in Davidson. On March 1, 1893 the Yorkville Enquirer reported that Davidson College students...
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...
