The Murfreesboro Post, July 29, 2015 The City Council is set to consider a memorandum of understanding Thursday with the Bradley Academy Historical Association transferring operation and management of the historical building to city government. This story has been updated. To view the original version, please click here. The City…
Murfreesboro City Television, February 5, 2015 Murfreesboro City Schools team up with Murfreesboro’s Parks and Recreation department to celebrate a night of African American heritage and culture.
FOSTERVILLE SCHOOL BLACK 1897-1947 was located on the east side of the U.S. 231 Highway between Christiana and Fosterville. It was on the first knob north of the Midland Road, just south of the present Faulk’s sawmill, and across from the home of the Fraziers and Braceys. The land was…
FLAT ROCK BLACK 1878-1920’s was located about one mile east of Midland on the south side of Midland to U.S. 231 Highway. The site is shown on the 1878 Beers Map. Mr. Jim M. Williams, a school director and operator of the store at the Midland crossroads, provided the building.…
WEBBS CHAPEL BLACK (late 1910’s) was on the west side of the Barfield-Crescent Road near the Webbs Chapel Methodist Church. The frame building had one room. Mattie Butler Bracey was a teacher here after she taught at MORTON SCHOOL in about 1913. When the school was torn down, classes were…
Remembering Rutherford, Daily News Journal, August 3, 2014, Greg Tucker Ebenezer Church In March 1905, J. R. Hill asked Tennessee Congressman John Gaines how to recover damages from the government for the destruction of the Ebenezer Church during the Civil War. The church building near LaVergne, according to Hill, “was…
June 25, 2013, WGNS Radio Venus Chapter #61 of the Order of the Eastern Star invites the public to attend their HONORS AWARD LUNCHEON at the Bradley Academy Museum (415 S. Academy St.). This will be Saturday, June 29th from 11:30 to 1 at Bradley Academy Museum. Racquel Peebles, Mary M.…
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, MARK BELL, 2/24/2013 – When LaRue Chaney was a child, she was taught that — despite growing up in a place called Little Hope — goals, dreams and, indeed, “hope” are what life is all about. Chaney, a life-long resident of the community that according to local…
July 27, 2012, Mike Osborne, WMOT Radio MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (HUBBARD) — The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Games are set for Friday evening. WMOT News has discovered a surprising number of Mid-State connections to the games. Tommy Haynes was a three-time All American under Middle Tennessee State track coach…
June 13, 2012, WGNS Radio For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area has added two panels to its traveling exhibition on emancipation. The exhibition will be on view at the Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center from June 12 to July 27, 2012. This will…