DAVIDSON HISTORY
Her 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...
read moreCentre Church
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,...
read moreJohnston Gym – Can it Really Be Thirty Years?
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...
read moreThe Indefatigable Henry Louis Smith
DAVIDSON HISTORY In 1887, Davidson College hired Henry Louis Smith, one of its 1881 graduates, as professor of natural sciences (physics and astronomy). He was to become what Winston-Salem’s Western Sentinel described in 1893 as “that well beloved...
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