Sneak Peek at Our New Display
As a museum, it is part of our work to collect and preserve the history of Davie, western Broward, and the historic school building. But it is our pleasure to serve as the site and home of childhood memories from students who used to learn in the classrooms of the Davie School, or known to more today as Davie Elementary. We are currently (and always) working on updating our exhibits and will soon display a large collection of class photographs from 1918 to 1978.
One of the first photographs from 1919 shows the students posed in front of the school with boys sitting cross-legged— many not wearing shoes! Another from the 1930s shows an old Model-T parked at the entrance to the school. And in one group photo from the 1950s taken in a classroom, you can see other students running around a playground outside during recess through an open window! The photographs show the changes to the school building itself, but most significantly to the changing and growing diversity of the students at Davie Elementary.
Many alumni who visit the Old Davie School Historical Museum often look for themselves in the smiling (or sneezing or blinking) group photos and comb the few yearbooks we have in our collection. The collection is only made possible with donations from former students and faculty! While the new display will offer the broadest array of available photographs to date in the museum, it is still incomplete.
Like the Davie School Foundation did when they first began collecting the memories and artifacts of the town, we are asking the community to contribute. Maybe there are old albums of your school days collecting dust somewhere under a bed or in a garage—bring them back to life at the Old Davie School Historical Museum! Yearbooks are our most often requested item by guests and we only have a small window from 1958-1963 to share. The saying goes, “A picture is worth 1,000 words” and those words are the conversations that will begin here by sharing memories made at the Old Davie School.
