Neighbor ‘saddened’ by threat to historic home

Michelle Willard, Daily News Journal, May 23, 2016 MURFREESBORO — Neighbors are disappointed by a recent Murfreesboro Planning Commission vote in favor of plans for a proposed apartment complex on Manson Pike that could threaten a historic home. “It saddens me for the history. It saddens me for the cave…

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Longtime RCHS Member Tom Brown passed away

Thomas Bearden Brown, 90, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away on May 14th, 2016. Visitation will be held at 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17th at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 18th at First Baptist Church. Dr. Noel Schoonmaker,…

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‘Hand of God’ guides man to amazing discovery

Michelle Willard, The Daily News Journal, May, 29, 2018 The sticky sweet smell of honeysuckle filled the air as Daryl Webb ducked his 6-foot-tall frame under scrub brush, braving snakes and ticks to show his sister the final resting place of one of Murfreesboro’s founding fathers. “You’d never know this…

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Memories fill heart, mind of 100-year-old WW II vet

Connie Esh and John Butwell, the Murfreesboro Post, May 10, 2016   Not everybody still remembers Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower, the top Allied general in Europe during World War II and later, a two-term President of the United States in the 1950s. But Charles Edward Neal remembers getting chewed out by him, praised by…

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Eliza Ransom Clothing Reproduction Project

April 6, 2016, Ransom School House, 717 North Academy Street, Murfreesboro, Tennessee The RCHS hosted a Tea, April 6, 2016, honoring MTSU Professor Virginia Donnell for her work creating the reproduction of teacher Eliza Ransom’s attire. Dr. Donnell’s dress will be on permanent display at the Ransom School Museum!

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Forrest Hall options considered by panel

Brian Wilson, The Daily News Journal, April 15, 2016 MURFREESBORO — The chairman of Middle Tennessee State University’s Forrest Hall task force called on Thursday for the name of the university’s ROTC building to be retired and for the building to be renamed after an MTSU alumnus, faculty member and veteran.…

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