No foolin’ – join the Stones River National battlefield staff, volunteers and the Friends of the Stones River National Battlefield, Saturday, April 1 from 8:30 till 12:30 Murfreesboro’s Old Fort Park and help clean the area around Fortress Rosecrans. If you have an hour, we’ll take an hour! Stones River…
Many thanks to local Historian Sandra Campbell for sharing her photos of the old State Capitol columns adorning the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. These columns were present at the Tennessee State Capitol for almost ninety years till wear and tear required their replacement along with some of the outside…
Nancy De Gennaro, The Daily News Journal, February 24, 2017 Former state Rep. John Hood will be honored as being an unsung hero at the fifth annual Heroes Breakfast sponsored by the Heart of Tennessee Chapter of the Red Cross at 7:30 a.m. March 8. Hood, a Murfreesboro native, has served…
NCTV, January 23, 2017 This week on NCTV, we travel to Murfreesboro and check out the Natural History Museum which features rock, fossils and dinosaurs!
Murfreesboro City Television, January 4, 2017 Town Creek runs underground through the heart of the city. The city will soon start a project to unearth the creek to attract people to the downtown area.
Murfreesboro City Television, December 20, 2016 Have you visited Cannonsburgh? It’s one of the great local attractions in Murfreesboro.
Sunday, December 4, 2016 Last night saw approximately 250 visitors to the Ransom School House as part of the 33rd Oaklands Candlelight Tour of Homes. All were warmly greeted, serenaded with Christmas carols by the Middle Tennessee Christian School choir; many visitors left as brand new members of the Rutherford…
Call it what you will but the Christmas tree lighting at the historic Rutherford County Courthouse is magical. To see thousands of citizens from our community gather around our 1859 Courthouse, sing carols, enjoy local business around the Square and come together as – wait, here’s that term again –…
Murfreesboro City Television, November 30, 2016
A Day at Oaklands Mansion, Frank Caperton, November 26, 2016 I visited Murfreesboro’s Oaklands Mansion on this beautiful afternoon. Oaklands offers some of the finest Italianate architecture I enjoy ‘gee-whiz’ facts including (thank you Oaklands Mansion for these incredible facts!): 1. Wealthy Memphis widow Elizabeth Swope purchased Oaklands Mansion and the property…