March 27, 1977, Gene Sloan, The Daily News Journal By Gene Sloan, Rutherford County Archivist Schools in the Midland (Middleton) area in the southwestern section of Rutherford County have records and some remarkably well preserved photographs that cover more than 100 years. There is a record that John D. Smith…
October 2, 2019, The Rutherford Source, Keith Ryan Cartwright The Hayes family has been in Rockvale for more than a century. Frank Hayes is a purple heart recipient, served in World War II under Gen. George S. Patton and is the oldest known Rockvale graduate still alive. Friday, Sept 13,…
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Saturday, September 14, 9AM till noon at the historic Ransom School House – the Ransom School House Old School Remembrance Celebration! Come and join us at the Historic Ransom School House for a class reunion! View Miss Eliza Ransom’s classroom of days gone by. Bring your yearbooks and/or school pics…
Wendi Watts, the Daily News Journal, February 22, 1995 Black education changed through the years in Rutherford County Black Education in Rutherford County has gone through a lot of changes in the past 50 years. In the 1930s and 1940s, Thelma Marie Turrentine Marshall went to class in a one-room…
March/April, 2019, Froe Chips, editor Carol White It was both a comprehensive process and a labor of love that prompted C.B. Arnette to use the logs from the Arnette family home, once located at 2403 Halls Hill Pike, for the Ransom School House construction. The home was built in the…
The Daily News Journal, Susan Harber, February 11, 2019 A generation of history within the walls of the Old Rock School in one article is unfeasible to behold. Thus, we will touch on bare highlights of a Smyrna school that originated some of the sharpest and most keen business minds…
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October 16, 2008 Rosenwald Schools “Between 1912 and 1932, the Rosenwald school building program constructed over five thousand new learning environments for African American school children in fifteen southern states, including fourteen in Rutherford County. The program was funded by Sears, Roebuck and Company president Julius Rosenwald and Booker T.…
Doug Davis, The Tennessean, July 4, 2008 Adjoining log home is part of the project An 1800s brink home that once housed the Eliza Ransom Private School is, after years of neglect, undergoing a restoration. “It’s coming along, yes siree”, said a jubilant C.B. Arnette, who has been spearheading the…