Local History in Davidson County
The Museum offers local history information in a variety of ways - through on-site exhibits, outreach programs, publications and web resources. Onsite we offer permanent exhibits about the Old Courthouse and the county's development from the North Carolina backcountry into a manufacturing center during its first 200 years of history.  The links below will help you access this information on your computer! 

Note:  Davidson County's website was redesigned in March 2008 and departments are still constructing pages.  Therefore, much of the information listed below is not online yet.  Please be patient and check back again soon.  For a complete list of the pages the Museum has put online, click here.

Davidson County Historical Museum 

• A Visit to the Historical Museum
• Museum Education Resources
• Museum Collections
  • Collections Policy
• Old Courthouse
  • Architecture of 1858 Courthouse
  • Old Courthouse Turns 150!
  • Washington Square

 Davidson County History

• A Delicious Country: Yadkin Valley, 1670-1770
  • Origin of Yadkin Valley & Geology of Davidson County
  • 2,000 years in the Yadkin Valley (Native Americans)
  • European Settlement of North Carolina
  • Motivation for Immigration
  • Acquiring Land in the Yadkin Valley
  • Early Settlements in the Yadkin Valley
  • Living on the Yadkin Valley Frontier
• Boone's Cave Park
  • History of the Park
  • In Search of Daniel Boone
• Civil War History in Davidson County
  • NC Civil War Trail Markers
  • Our Civil War Veterans

Development of Davidson County

• Industry Comes to Davidson County
• Townships & Towns
  • Lexington as County Seat
  • The Naming of Lexington
  • Thomasville
  • Denton History

WWII and Davidson County

• Homefront History
  • 1939 – 1941
  • 1942 – 1943
  • 1944 – 1945
• Carolina Maneuvers
• Veterans’ wartime narratives
  • America Enters the War
  • European Theater
  • Paacific Theater
  • North Africa
  • Stateside Service
    

Historic Preservation - architecture and cemeteries

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