TWELVE CORNERS SCHOOL 1860’s-1937 was located at the intersection of the Twelve Corners Road and the Bradley Creek Road. The church, called Bradley’s Creek Church, the graveyard, and later the school occupied thethree corners of the intersection. The church is on the 1878 Beers Map. During the Civil War, the…
FLORENCE HILL ACADEMY 1887-1903 was located one mile south of Fosterville on the east side of the Bell Buckle road. Gran Gilmore and wife sold two acres of their land and signed a deed for the school on September 30, 1887. Trustees were F. B. Williams, P. R. Miller, J.…
KINGWOOD SCHOOL 1881-1946 was about eight miles from Murfreesboro on Kingwood Road which runs south off Franklin Road. The school was on the east side of the road just past the Williamson farm and a rock quarry. KINGWOOD was the successor to BLACK GNAT SCHOOL. In a deed dated July…
BLACKMAN SCHOOL 1913-1939 was on the west side of Blackman Road, just north of the Baker Road intersection. On December 6, 1913, J. C. Batey and wife Mary A. deeded two acres to the Rutherford County Board of Education. The school was a frame building, weatherboarded and painted white, with…
MURFREESBORO FEMALE INSTITUTE 1875 – 1899 is shown on the 1878 Beers Map as located between High and Maney and bordering Burton Streets. The location of the building currently would be 421 East Bell Street. MURFREESBORO FEMALE INSTITUTE, also known as the SCOBEY SCHOOL, used the same property which the…
CHRISTIANA SCHOOL BLACK 1890-1918 was in Christiana on the north side of the present Miller Street and across from the home of Joe McCrary. The land was given by Martha Miller for as long as it was used for school purposes. Parents of the school children constructed the one-room building.…
McFADDEN SCHOOL 1935-1939 was built on the same site at 211 Bridge Avenue at a cost of $25,000. Additional land was sold for the school campus by Addie Smith and husband Jim on October 4, 1935 and by Sam Arnette and wife Josie on January 11, 1937. Mr. George Cranor,…
McFADDEN SCHOOL 1927-1935 was a county grammar school located on the southeast side of Bridge Ave. in Murfreesboro. It was named for Elvie McFadden “who ministered to the spiritual and physical needs of the underprivileged in Westvue.” Before her death in 1925, she was assured by B. B. Kerr, then…
The GORDON SCHOOL is a building in the pioneer village of Cannonsburgh on South Front Street in Murfreesboro. The one-room log school is named for J. P. Gordon. Mr. “Pet” Gordon was elected to represent Rutherford County in the Tennessee legislature in 1923. He had served as magistrate from the…
MIDLAND SCHOOL 1895-1949 was first called MIDWAY ACADEMY because it was midway between the two schools which it consolidated, GRAVEL HILL and CAMPGROUND. It was located on the south side of the Midland-U.S. 231 Highway east of Midland, then called Middleton, and on the site of the present Baptist Church.…