DAVIDSON HISTORY
Outrunning the Train
DAVIDSON HISTORY In the early 1900s, two interesting articles appeared in local newspapers about creatures who had managed to outrun the train. On April 5, 1904, the Monroe Journal reported that ‘Red Buck’, “the auburn-haired youth who collects money and yarns for...
read moreTragedy at the Medical School
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 dissecting...
read moreLake Wylie – Did You Know?
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...
read moreHer Heart Was With the Boys
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 is. They...
read moreMary Scofield Clifford’s Education
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 with this...
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