The Dixie African
Violet Society (DAVS) is an association of persons with an interest in
African violets (AV) and is affiliated with the African Violet Society
of America (AVSA). This is the official WEB
site of the Dixie African Violet Society (DAVS), a nonprofit organization,
founded in 1956 to afford an association of persons with similar interest in African
violets within an area not too vast for occasional meeting. There are
thirteen states included in DAVS: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and
Virginia. Groups primarily concerned with growing and showing African violets in
these states can become affiliate members of DAVS; however, individual membership is open
to all persons world wide.
Daylilies of North Carolina is the hybriding garden of Bobby Baxter that is at the forefront of the advanced development of polymerous daylilies. Located in Wake Forest, NC.
More than 45 years of research has resulted in the Northern Shipwrecks Database which documents over 186,000 world-wide shipwrecks over the last 500 years along our coasts, the Great Lakes and rivers, as well as many of vessels lost around the world during times of war and peace. Includes: Lloyd's Register of Shipping Casualty Returns (1890 to 1976); Transport Canada Wrecks Lists (1896-1999); Canadian Government Sessional Papers- Annual Wrecks Reports (1870 - 1920); US. Department of Defense - US. Navy's Non-Submarine Contacts List (1995 declassified version); Merchant Vessels of the United States - Annual Wreck Reports (18968 to 1970) plus many old newspapers, shipwreck books and vessel registers.