{"id":4,"date":"2021-04-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2024-09-17T20:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:47:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Thank you for visiting Davie NCGenWeb!<br \/>\nPlease note we are not part of Davie County&#8217;s government system.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/200px-Map_of_North_Carolina_highlighting_Davie_County_svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49\" src=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/200px-Map_of_North_Carolina_highlighting_Davie_County_svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Davie County was formed in 1836 from Rowan.\u00a0 It was named in honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Richardson_Davie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Richardson Davie<\/a>, an attorney, distinguished Revolutionary soldier, member of the Federal Convention of 1787, governor of North Carolina, special envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to France, and one of the founders of the University of North Carolina.\u00a0 It is in the central section of the State and is bordered by Davidson, Rowan, Iredell, Yadkin, and Forsyth counties.\u00a0 The present area is 264 square miles.\u00a0 In 1837 court was ordered to be held at Mocksville.\u00a0 Mocksville, incorporated in 1839, is the county seat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History &#8212; &#8220;Davie County: In the Forks of the Yadkin,&#8221; by James W. Wall for more information about Davie County.\u00a0 See Books Tab for ordering.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/dchgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>NCGenWeb expresses our gratitude to Elizabeth Harris, County Coordinator until 2009, for her kindness and contributions during reconstruction of this site.\u00a0 Marie Craig, MarieBCR@gmail.com, is the current County Coordinator.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for visiting Davie NCGenWeb! Please note we are not part of Davie County&#8217;s government system. Davie County was formed in 1836 from Rowan.\u00a0 It was named in honor of William Richardson Davie, an attorney, distinguished Revolutionary soldier, member of the Federal Convention of 1787, governor of North Carolina, special envoy extraordinary and minister &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/davie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}