DAVIDSON HISTORY
Furman L. Brodie: Pastor and Educator
DAVIDSON HISTORY One of the early schools for African American children in Davidson was run by Rev. Furman L. Brodie, pastor of the Davidson Presbyterian Church. Furman Lawrence Brodie was born in Aiken County, South Carolina, in 1856. He and his parents, Alfred...
Typhoid Fever
DAVIDSON HISTORY On July 16, 1898 the Yorkville Enquirer reprinted an article from the Gastonia Gazette on a number of cases of typhoid fever that were contracted at Davidson's commencement. Typhoid fever results from ingesting water or food that has been...
Dire Straits
DAVIDSON HISTORY The Civil War produced devastation across the South, and as Davidson College was an all-male institution, it suffered greatly during the war. According to Cornelia Shaw, 1039 young men from the classes of 1840 to 1869 fought in the war. In the years...
All Aboard!
DAVIDSON HISTORY In the early 1860s the railroad, in the form of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad (AT&O) arrived in Davidson. The AT&O was incorporated in Tennessee in 1852 and in North Carolina in 1855, with the intention of connecting Charlotte...
Early Transportation in Davidson
DAVIDSON HISTORY On January 20, 1857, Charlotte’s Western Democrat published an advertisement offering the Charlotte and Taylorsville Plank road for sale. According to ad, “The Road extends from Charlotte via Davidson College to Mt. Mourne, Iredell County,...
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