Connie Esh, The Murfreesboro Post, August 31, 2016 Saturday afternoon was definitely “old school” for four of the five remaining 1943 graduates of the “Old Rock School.” The Smyrna High School Class of ’43 gathered at O’Charley’s in Smyrna for their 73rd class reunion. All four graduates who attended are…
Ever wonder why there is an old smokestack behind Haynes Bros. Lumber on the corner of Broad Street and Old Fort Pkwy.? One of the largest milk plants in the southeastern United States was the Carnation Milk plant.
Greg Tucker, The Murfreesboro Post, August 21, 2016 Jack Jones supervised the removal and replacement of Murfreesboro’s concrete street markers in the early 1970s, and built some unique steps for his home at 503 North Maney Ave. The earliest known road markers were part of the system of paved roads…
WGNS Radio (www.wgnsradio.com), August 11, 2016 Murfreesboro city council approved purchasing three lots of property at the corner of Southeast Broad and South Church Street for the purpose of making improvements on Town Creek Culverts. The city’s plan calls for a conceptual design of stream restoration segments to develop a…
Who remembers the old Castlewood home? How about Riverside? The Tarpley House? Evergreen? This is page 94 from ‘Pictures and the stories they tell’, Frank Caperton & Susan Daniel, 2008, available for only $45 by clicking on the ‘Publications’ tab at the top of this page.
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Elam (great grandfather of Ed ‘Sonny‘ Elam) was the surgeon for the 45th Tennessee (Confederate) during the Civil War. After the war he returned to the Rucker Community to continue his medical practice and raise his eight children with wife Elizabeth Snell Elam. He opened the original…
J.N. Wright‘s Mill was located just off Halls Hill Pike behind the old Kerr‘s Grocery. It collapsed in (c) 1978. Note the dam constructed of timber. From ‘Pictures and the Stories they Tell‘, the Rutherford County Historical Society. From Denise Johnson: “I thought some of the more recent folks that…
Between Murfreesboro and Smyrna, just to the east of today’s US Hwy. 41 (Nashville Hwy.) sits Nice’s Mill. Nice’s Mill was once known as Ward‘s Mill. Mr. J.E. Nice, Sr. and son J.E. Nice, Jr. came to Rutherford County from Coffee County circa 1923 and purchased Ward‘s Mill near the…
This old log home is located just south of the Stones River United Methodist Church on the Old Nashville Hwy., and approximately 1/3 of a mile north of the historic entrance to the Stones River National Battlefield.
