{"id":78,"date":"2024-04-03T07:13:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2024-04-08T05:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T10:15:05","slug":"welcome-to-davidson-county-tngenweb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Davidson County TNGenWeb!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson County was created in 1783 by an Act of the North Carolina&nbsp;legislature; named in honor of William Lee Davidson (ca. 1746-1781), colonial&nbsp;soldier, Revolutionary War officer in the North Carolina Third, Fourth and Fifth&nbsp;Regiments who was killed in action at the Battle of Cowans Ford on the&nbsp;Catawba River in North Carolina.&nbsp;&nbsp;Davidson County is located in Middle Tennessee, one of the state&#8217;s three&nbsp;&#8220;grand divisions.&#8221; Davidson County was formed in 1783 from Washington&nbsp;County.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/graphics\/adoptable_button_blue.gif\" alt=\"Adoptable\" width=\"200\" height=\"76\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>We honor the contributions of Jane Colmenares, who recently retired as Davidson County Coordinator. If you are interested in volunteering to assist with this site, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/adopt-county.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are working diligently to recreate the wealth of material previously available on the Davidson County site.&nbsp; Please bear with us.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. <a href=\"javascript:secureDecryptAndNavigate('zfD2fyAAmAjOLxLRgLyWwgkX1oLq6GC8e0jWRj+B3sFom+lwYjzbCMK8\/13+mWWN1cQkS8OlCP\/PoShO1IL9Wy1ZASQflgUX3Wg6jmWk', '9852684dfbcaa0d1015b587b5808fbc411ec213ac6076a17eb9b57ab653837da')\">Bettye Seaton-Liberty<\/a> is the interim volunteer Coordinator for Davidson County.&nbsp;&nbsp; Please send comments and questions about the site to Bettye.<\/p>\n<p>If you have requests for research assistance, please <a href=\"https:\/\/library.nashville.org\/metro-archives\/explore-our-collections\/research-your-genealogy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact the genealogy research staff at the Nashville Public Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson County was created in 1783 by an Act of the North Carolina&nbsp;legislature; named in honor of William Lee Davidson (ca. 1746-1781), colonial&nbsp;soldier, Revolutionary War officer in the North Carolina Third, Fourth and Fifth&nbsp;Regiments who was killed in action at <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}