Bill Parks for County Clerk Kan-O-Seat

April 6, 2019, Ransom School House, Murfreesboro, Tennessee You simply never know what local historians such as Curtis Parish will bring when visiting the historic Ransom School House for ‘Coffee & Conversation’ each Saturday morning…

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The First Five Mayors of Murfreesboro

March 1, 2019, A Series by Barry Lamb Haskell, Joshua was born, according to an unverified source on April 9, 1786 in Providence, Rhode Island. He came to Davidson County, Tennessee before 1811 as he appears on a tax list there during that year. It is believed that he came…

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Burrus Cemetery and a Little History

Froe Chips, January/February 2019, by Carol Robertson White There are two Burrus family cemeteries in Rutherford County. One Burrus cemetery is nestled dab smack in the middle of Cherry Lane Acres, with residential homes built all around. The cemetery is guarded by an iron fence and was restored years ago…

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For two decades, Huddlestons fed West Vine neighbors

Froe Chips, January/February 2019, Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker Before World War II, Homer Huddleston and his wife Effie lived in a rented “shotgun house” in Westvue, the working class neighborhood west of the railroad tracks in Murfreesboro. Their home was on the southwest corner of the Mill and Dosie…

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Sharing the ‘Dixie Dewdrop’ Story

Ken Beck, the Murfreesboro Post, December 26, 2018 “And now friends we present Uncle Dave Macon, the Dixie Dewdrop, with his plug hat, gold teeth, chin whiskers, gates-ajar color and that million-dollar Tennessee smile. Let her go Uncle Dave!” To his sons and grandchildren he was known as “Pap,” but…

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Happy Hill School (Black), 1913-1948

HAPPY HILL SCHOOL BLACK 1913-1948 was on Marshall Knob,where the rock quarry is now, on the east side of U.S. 231 between Murfreesboro and Christiana. On June 16, 1913, C. C. Henderson and wife Hattie signed deed to the Rutherford County School Board of Education for a school on the…

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