DAVIDSON HISTORY
“A Monument to the Gastric Propensities of Man”
DAVIDSON HISTORY It seems like new restaurants and eateries are popping up all over Davidson these days. But there was a time when restaurants were more of a novelty. In 1924, a new hotel opened (just about where the Village Inn is now) with a...
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DAVIDSON HISTORY In a column printed in The Progressive Farmer (Winston, N.C.) on November 24, 1886, Georgia newspaperman and humorist, Bill Arp, recounted an experience he had while visiting Davidson College in the middle of October. “While I was upstairs in a...
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SPORTS Nearly ninety years ago Davidson’s Track Coach Heath Whittle had a dilemma. He needed a way to identify prospective runners for his Track and Field team. Before the days of the internet and YouTube videos of impressive sports achievements,...
read moreSensational Murder in Davidson in 1914
DAVIDSON HISTORY In February 1914, there was a sensational murder in Davidson, one which involved two of the most prominent men in town. At 7:30 p.m. on February 10, pharmacist Robert Munroe Jetton discovered Dr. W.H. Wooten in his wife’s bedroom and shot him....
read moreH.P. Helper and the Carolina Inn
DAVIDSON HISTORY In August 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Davidson resident H.P. Helper published the following advertisement in regional newspapers: “Not an Abolitionist. Owing to the well known political course of my brother ... I have been made an object...
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