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Winn-Dixie was built up by William Milton Davis and his sons Artemus Darius Davis, James Elsworth Davis, Milton Austin Davis and Tine Wayne Davis. William Davis started in business in Burley, Idaho, where he bought a general store in 1914 that he later renamed Davis Mercantile. As was common then, he sold most goods on credit.
Originally, brothers Judson McCarty Holman and William Henry Holman and their cousin William Bonner McCarty founded a grocery store in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1912. Over the next few years, they opened additional stores, but in 1916, one of their stores found itself unable to collect the amounts owed by some of its customers, and the idea of changing over to a cash-and-carry business model ...
Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. While there is no official definition of this region ...
Lynch founded the band alongside three other women in 1989, including current members and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer. ... Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks — now ...
Sir William Berkeley, ... at times even English Americans in Dixie ... Pennsylvania, founded near Philadelphia on October 6, 1683. [78]
Dixie: Nickname applied to Southern U.S. region, ... The oldest university in the South, the College of William & Mary, was founded in 1693 in Virginia; ...
The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
1963 - The USA South was founded as the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Charter members included Charlotte College (now the University of North Carolina at Charlotte), the College of Charleston, Lynchburg College (now the University of Lynchburg), Methodist College (now Methodist University), North ...