You know, we come across some fun and interesting items at the Rutherford County Historical Society. Everyday reminds me of Christmas. We opened a time capsule from September 27, 1973 at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) Police Department this past September (September 22, 2017). We since have digitized a two-foot thick stack…
WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, TN, November 10, 2017 Lascassas icon Ben “Buddy” Brown, Jr. has passed away. Brown and his wife Linda operated Brown’s Store on Lascassas Highway, a community meeting place, complete with regulars, gossipers and bologna sandwiches. Buddy and Linda operated the store from 1981 until the store closed…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, November 6, 2017 Brown’s Chapel Church is a diamond that sparkled in our county for more than 80 years. The original church for Blackman Methodists was built in 1876 and named Brown’s Chapel to honor its first minister, Allison Brown. Brown’s Chapel Road also…
Dan Epright, the Murfreesboro Post, October 24, 2017 Marty Luffman is a character, no two ways about it, and a Smyrna fixture with lots of irons in the fire. At least two of the State Farm Insurance agent’s irons are “shootin’ irons” as he competes in mounted shooting competitions, or at…
Greg Tucker, ‘Rutherford For Real’ Ed Note: ‘Rutherford for Real‘ is available through the Rutherford County Historical Society for only $20. It has been often said and written that Murfreesboro was first named ‘Cannonsburgh’. Technically, this is NOT correct. Indeed, the only location or entity in Rutherford County to ever…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, September 7, 2017 Beloved environmental advocate Bertha Chrietzberg of Murfreesboro has died. She was 97. Chrietzberg was instrumental in preserving some of what are now considered Rutherford County’s most popular natural resources, including the Stones River Greenway System. The analogy of planting seeds is a…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, August 28, 2017 Ben McCulloch, a military maverick, was born in Jefferson on November 11, 1811. He gained fame in the Texas Revolution, Mexican War (as a Texas Ranger) and as a Confederate general in the Civil War. Ben’s parents were Maj. Alexander McCulloch…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, July 31, 2017 Sewart Air Force Base, originally Smyrna Army Airfield, began operations in 1942 as a B-24 training facility. The base ceased operations after World War II in 1947, only to re-activate in 1950 and eventually close in 1970. The namesake for the…
Greg Tucker, the Murfreesboro Post, July 25, 2017 “The ‘law’s delay,’ as exemplified in the courthouse, is the cause of these illegal executions. A reform in court proceedings is badly needed.” Editorial from The Fayetteville Observer (September 12, 1878), regarding a Rutherford County lynching. Abner Dement was born in 1848 in the northeastern…
The Dixie Flyer, the Official Newsletter of the NC&StL Preservation Society, Spring 2016 The following are excerpts from the NC&StL Bulletin, March 1945 Carnation Co., Murfreesboro In the above picture of Carnation’s beautiful plant at Murfreesboro, Tenn., we’re only given a glimpse of its size. When the war clouds have…
