A Day at the Sam Davis home, Frank Caperton, November 25, 2016 When was the last time you visited the Sam Davis Home and Plantation? I’ll be the first to admit – it has been far too long since my last visit. I spent a beautiful November afternoon at Smyrna’s…
Who remembers the day SportsCom opened? Many thanks to WGNS Radio, 1450AM or 101.9FM (www.wgnsradio.com) for documenting the opening of Murfreesboro’s SportsCom! June, 1987: Joe B. Jackson was Murfreesboro Mayor; E.C. Fite, Jr. was City manager and such as John Pittard and Mary Hutta were on the City Council. Take…
Who remembers ‘”Heart of Tennessee”, by Central Middle School geography teacher and 1987 Tennessee Teacher of the Year and 1988 National Teacher of the Year Terry Weeks?
WGNS Radio, www.wgnsradio.com, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, October 15, 2016 Oaklands Park in Murfreesboro is the state’s newest certified arboretum. The Tennessee Urban Forestry Council (TUFC) announced that Oaklands was added to the list as the TUFC gathered for its 25th annual conference at the Rutherford County Extension Office in Murfreesboro October…
WGNS Radio, www.wgnsradio.com, October 15, 2016 Oaklands Park in Murfreesboro is the state’s newest certified arboretum. The Tennessee Urban Forestry Council (TUFC) announced that Oaklands was added to the list as the TUFC gathered for its 25th annual conference at the Rutherford County Extension Office in Murfreesboro October 6-7. “The…
WGNS Radio, 1450AM, www.WGNSRadio.com, September 29, 2016 With dignified precision befitting the honors due to fallen American soldiers, as many as 13 skeletal remains unearthed from what was a Mexican War battlefield were welcomed home Wednesday (Sept. 28) after 170 years. The solemn movement of the two flag-draped transfer cases,…
State Representative Mike Sparks (R – Smyrna), The Murfreesboro Post, September 21, 2016 State Representative Mike Sparks (R-Smyrna) joined with State Senator Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro) and several members of La Vergne town council to honor local former Postmaster and La Vergne Mayor, A.C. Puckett yesterday at the Smyrna Town Centre. Puckett,…
Rutherford County’s Confederate Guardian of Peace Monument was unveiled November 7, 1901, facing east down East Main Street. It was moved to its current location in 1914. There is a reason the local historians refer to this monument as the ‘Confederate Peace Memorial’… The Memorial was moved to it’s current location,…
WGNS Radio (www.wgnsradio.com), September 5, 2016 Town Creek in Murfreesboro is currently underground. It travels via a concrete pipe (culvert) between the Discovery Center and Lytle Creek behind Cannonsburgh. However, that creek will soon see daylight and a new walkway. The creek was originally placed underground by way of culverts…
Page 13, ‘Pictures and the Stories they Tell’, by Frank Caperton and Susan Daniel, 2008 The old Murfreesboro City Hall and Fire Hall was located on the corner of South Church and Vine Street till razed in the early 1940’s to make way for the expansion of Murfreesboro’s Goldstein’s Department Store.…