Michelle Willard, The Daily News Journal, January 7, 2016 MURFREESBORO – The Murfreesboro City Council approved an offer of $1.55 million for former First United Methodist Church on East College Street at its meeting Thursday night. “To me it means as much to me as Big Ben to London or…
Throwback Thursday from the Stones River National Battlefield Face Book page (www.facebook.com/StonesRiverNPS): Here’s a blast from the past and a #FindYourPark moment all rolled into one shared by visitor R.H. Fleming. These are 1958 pics of young Mr. Fleming (he’s the little guy) and his family visiting the battlefield where…
Sam Stockard, Murfreesboro Post, January 4, 2015 With an eye toward preserving a historical church tower, the city of Murfreesboro will consider buying Franklin Synergy Bank’s downtown building for $1.55 million then selling it for redevelopment, Mayor Shane McFarland confirmed. City Council members received information recently from City Manager Rob…
Michelle Willard, Daily News Journal, December 30, 2015 MURFREESBORO — Franklin Synergy Bank is entertaining “several offers” for its downtown Murfreesboro property, including one from the city of Murfreesboro, an official with the bank said. “We have several offers, and we think one of those will become a buyer, but…
Frank Caperton, Rutherford County Historical Society, December 24, 2015 Perhaps my favorite Christmas song is an old gospel/Bluegrass song titled ‘Beautiful Star of Bethlehem’. I’m certain you’ve heard this song hundreds of times and never realized the song’s connection with Rutherford County. Please click below and listen and you too…
Nancy DeGenarro, Daily News Journal, December 19, 2015 MURFREESBORO — At age 19, Bill Allen of Murfreesboro looked death in the face when his ship went down during the Invasion of Normandy, France, in June 1944. “The bow was going down, and I was on the bow, and I stayed…
Susan, Harber, Daily news Journal, December 15, 2015 One of the earliest physicians in Rutherford County was Dr. Nimrod Whitfield Thompson. He was born in 1811 in Hartsville, Tenn., to William and Anna Mullins Thompson originally of Albemarle County, Va. He had 14 siblings and learned at an early age…
Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal MURFREESBORO — Students in a McFadden School of Excellence schoolroom were preparing for a class on Thursday expected to throw them back more than a century. The class taught by fifth-grade history teacher Christy Moore will move to a “one-room classroom”-like space she and another teacher rediscovered at Rutherford…
Connie Esh, The Murfreesboro Post, October 27, 2015 Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, founded in 1885, is a small church with a long, rich history. One part of that history is that one of its former song leaders, Robert Fisher Boyce, wrote the first song in the church hymnal, “Beautiful Star…
Rutherford County Assessor of Property took the initiative to measure the girth of the huge Sycamore tree on the east side of Rutherford county’s historic Courthouse. The tree was planted near the time the Courthouse opened – 1859. Rob Mitchell measured the girth at 16’9”. The height is 90.13′ and…