LASCASSAS SCHOOL 1889-1927 was on the north side of the Lascassas-Milton Road. It was on land donated for “The building of a school” where a free school would be conducted in the fall and a tuition fee charged for a shorter spring term. The site was the one on which…
WALTER HILL ACADEMY 1870-1924, now referred to as the OLD WALTER HILL SCHOOL, was on the Lebanon Road and about one-eighth mile north of Stone’s River. The land was given by Dr. T. C. Black. Both the site of the school and the name T. C. Black are on the…
LAWRENCE CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK 1898-1936, was located between Salem and Windrow. It was on the north side of Windrow Road just before Windrow Hill and behind the John Haynes’ house. It was in the vicinity of LEATHERS SCHOOL. On August 17, 1898, W. T. Haynes and wife N. A. deeded…
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…
CEDAR HILL SCHOOL 1880’s-c 1920 was about 12 miles east of Murfreesboro on the Bradyville Road. It was about .25 mile east of Donnell’s Chapel store, up a hill on the north side of the road. In 1890, County Superintendent James P. Nelson said, “We have some of the best…
SANDERS SCHOOL District 3 1890-1910 was some times called SNEED SCHOOL. It was located on the northeast side of the Murfreesboro-Nashville Turnpike at Hill Top. It was on Sanders’ property. “Bud” Gregory, Tom Sanders, and Sam Hager built the one-room weatherboarded school. Teachers were Maude Brown, Lillian Smith, and Mai…
Compiled from ‘Rutherford County Schools to 1972’ by the Rutherford County Historical Society, published 1986 BRACKIN SCHOOL fl. 1878 was located on the south side of the old Jefferson Pike, near the railroad, and in the area now known as the Smyrna Air Base. The site of the school and…
Compiled from ‘Rutherford County Schools to 1972’ by the Rutherford County Historical Society, published 1986 CEDAR GROVE SCHOOL before 1897-1936 was located in the area between the old Nashville Highway and the present Interstate Highway. It was on the east side of Cedar Grove Road about one-half mile north of…
July 1, 2019, by Carol White Patricia Todd Nelson was born in 1951 to Charles and Margaret Todd of Second Avenue. She went to Campus School from first thru eighth grade, walking to school until her parents moved to Bellwood. Charles Todd was the owner of Todd Furniture once located…
