DAVIDSON HISTORY
Rosenwald Schools: Special Davidson History Column for Black History Month
DAVIDSON HISTORY (Thanks to our Davidson History Columnist, Nancy Griffith, News of Davidson is proud to publish this important piece of history to honor Black History Month.) In the early 20th century, education for African Americans in the south was chronically...
Davidson: The Bicycle Town
DAVIDSON HISTORY Since Davidson is known as such a bicycle town, I thought it would be interesting to look into the history of bicycles and when they first appeared in great numbers here in town. The first attempt at a "bicycle," or human-powered conveyance with two...
The Fighting Parson
DAVIDSON HISTORY Benjamin Rice Lacy, Jr., grandson of Davidson president Drury Lacy and a 1906 Davidson graduate, was nicknamed "The Fighting Parson" after his actions in World War I. According to the Davidsonian, while in college Lacy "stood prominent in athletics,...
“Dandy Jim” Douglass
DAVIDSON HISTORY One of the most colorful members of Davidson College's class of 1893 was James McDowell Douglass. "Dandy Jim," as he was called, was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina in 1867. His parents were Reverend James Douglass and his wife Margaret,...
My Family’s Time in the Sentelle-Brown House
DAVIDSON HISTORY When we moved to Davidson in 1979, we had the good fortune to live at 119 South Main Street, in what was then referred to as the Sentelle-Brown House. According to local tradition, the house came pre-cut from the Sears Roebuck Company, with...
