DAVIDSON HISTORY
Davidson College’s Unique Sport
NEWS Intramural sports, among them football, have long been a feature at American colleges and universities. Around 1950, however, schools began to switch from regular football to tag football. Among them was Davidson College.In 1951, college president John...
New Historic Preservation Signage Coming to Town
NEWS Be on the look out for Historic Preservation signage throughout town. One of the priority strategies identified in the 2024-2025 Board of Commissioners Strategic Plan is to support and encourage storytelling initiatives to capture the lived experience. ...
Lake Norman Legends: UFOs
NEWS In recent years, the U.S. Government has begun to take UFOs, now referred to as UAPs or unexplained aerial phenomena, more seriously. Both the Defense Department and intelligence agencies have begun releasing more information and NASA has formed a committee to...
Baseball is in the Air, and with it Come Thoughts of Gene McEver
NEWS (Editor's Note: Our wonderful Davidson Historian, Nancy Griffith, wrote this piece about Gene McEver earlier this year. We thought it would be good to bring it forward in celebration of spring, baseball, and McEver Field.) Youth baseball has been a fixture in...
Everyone Welcome Here!
NEWS In 1962, Ralph Quackenbush opened a new restaurant on North Main Street. Called The Hub, it welcomed all customers, Black and white alike. Ralph first came to North Carolina in 1959, when he and his boss arrived to renovate an old mill in Cornelius for the...