Professor asks Washington City to remove statue of Robert Covington, man who gave ‘Dixie’ its name

June 29, 2020

WASHINGTON — If you’ve ever wondered how the St. George area became known as “Dixie,” the story begins Aug. 20, 1815, in Rockingham, North Carolina, when Robert Dockery Covington was born. After helping raise cotton and tobacco on his father’s plantation, he moved to Summerville, Mississippi, where he and his wife Elizabeth owned slaves and managed a plantation.

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