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1772. James Robertson was born.
1767. Andrew Jackson was born.
1775. Thomas Benton Craighead, patron of learning, was graduated from Princeton University.
1779. Nashville, first called "The Bluffs," was founded.
1780. Thomas B. Craighead was ordained as a Presbyterian minister.
1784. The settlement called the Bluffs, then Nashborough, became Nashville.
1785.* Davidson Academy was born, with Thomas B. Craighead as President. Boyd McNairy was born.
1786. The trustees of Davidson Academy held their first formal meeting. School opened in the Spring Hill Meeting House.
1778. Davidson Academy was granted the right to operate a ferry.
1789. Davidson Academy was endowed with two salt licks.
1791. Upon the resignation of William Polk, Andrew Jackson became a trustee of Davidson Academy.
1792. Davidson Academy used or studied forty-eight volumes.
1795. An invoice from Davidson Academy has been found for this year. George Peabody was born.
1796. The territorial legislature placed the building's of Davidson Academy near Buchanan's Mill.
1797. Boyd McNairy entered Davidson Academy.
1799. Federal Seminary merged with Davidson Academy.
1802. Davidson Academy had only seven or eight students. John McNairy and David Shelby were elected as trustees.
1803. Only seven acres of Davidson's 240 remained. Sumner County, tried unsuccessfully, to move Davidson Academy to Montpelier in that county. Boyd McNairy finished his schooling at Davidson Academy.
1805. Colonel Robertson and Andrew Jackson resigned as trustees of Davidson Academy.
1806. Thomas B. Craighead resigned as president of Davidson Academy, becoming president of Cumberland College, now merged with Davidson Academy.
1808. A new building for Davidson Academy was completed.
1809. Thomas B. Craighead left Cumberland College to be replaced by James Priestly.
1826. Davidson Academy and Cumberland College became the University of Nashville. Andrew Jackson was a trustee.
1979-1980. A group of persons in Madison, Tennessee, began to discuss among themselves the need for another private Christian school to serve the area.
1980. Madison Christian School, the forerunner of Davidson Academy, opened with sixty-two students and four teachers, grades one through four.
1981. The Tennessee Department of Education granted approval. Davidson Academy came to being.
1983. Enrollment grows from 62 to more than 300. "Satellite" kindergartens are established at Grace Baptist Church and Inglewood Baptist Church. Construction of the first phase of the new Old Hickory Boulevard campus is completed.
1983. Facilities of the new Old Hickory Boulevard campus are occupied in the fall.
1983-1989. Enrollment grows to more than 1,300. Lower and Upper School buildings are constructed.
1989. First class of 48 students is graduated. |
