DAVIDSON HISTORY
Life in Davidson in the 1940s and 1950s
DAVIDSON HISTORY Life in Davidson in the 1940s and 1950sby Bettie Torrence Smith Editor's note: Davidson History columnist, Nancy Griffith, thought she would try something new for the history column. Griffith has been concentrating on events that happened before...
Lights, Camera, Action!
DAVIDSON HISTORY Experiments with "moving pictures" began in the late 19th century, and by 1890 there was a camera named the Kinetograph, a primitive projector. After 1890, cinematographers began producing silent movies, which became more sophisticated as...
The Automotive Age
DAVIDSON HISTORY The automotive age arrived fairly early in Davidson. The first steam powered automobiles in the United States were produced by the Locomobile Company, founded in New England in 1899. According to Mary Beaty's history of Davidson, the first...
Davidson Hits the Gridiron
DAVIDSON HISTORY What is known as American football began shortly after the Civil War when students at some eastern colleges invented a new game by combining elements of rugby and soccer. In 1867 Princeton students established the first rules for the game, and in...
“Spare the Boys”
DAVIDSON HISTORY From its earliest beginnings, Davidson College was determined to protect its students from all sorts of perceived evils. The first charter of the college declared that “it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to set up or continue any...
