Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 27, 2015, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 21, 2015, WGNS Radio Truman visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones and…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 21, 2015, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Rutherford County historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones…

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Cannonsburgh Village to celebrate Pioneer Days

Nancy De Gennaro, Daily News Journal, Monday, April 20, 2015 MURFREESBORO – Saturday marks the 39th annual Pioneer Days, a free festival at Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village, a sort of tangible time capsule of what life was like in early Rutherford County. Located at 312 South Front Street, the village includes…

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Templeton Grove Grave Marking Ceremony

Nancy De Gennaro, Daily News Journal, Sunday, April 19, 2015 SMYRNA – When Frances Victory was searching through a historical book at Smyrna First Baptist Church, she ran across an almost-forgotten early settler of Rutherford County, John Nash Read. “So I got on the Internet and started doing a lot…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 13, 2015, WGNS Radio Truman visits Jim Lewis and Mike Liles of the Stones River National Battlefield. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 13, 2015, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits Mike Liles and Ranger Jim Lewis of the Stones River National Battlefield. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 7, 2015, WGNS Radio Truman visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones and…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 6, 2015, WGNS Radio Today Truman visits with Rutherford County historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 6, 2015, WGNS Radio Truman talks school history in Murfreesboro. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones and friends share…

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Local History with Truman Jones and Friends

April 6, 2015, WGNS Radio Truman talks school history in Murfreesboro. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman Jones and friends share…

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WHITTLE: Newspaper obituaries trace trails of life

Dan Whittle, Murfreesboro Post, April 6, 2014 History lives on the page you’re reading. Years ago, a wise and seasoned newspaper editor challenged us rookie reporters: “Get it right, for you’re writing the history of this state.” But I was hurt when that same editor immediately assigned me to writing…

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Jefferson: Gone but not forgotten

Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal, March 30, 2015 (Please click here to visit the Society’s page regarding Old Jefferson and Jefferson Springs) SMYRNA — Old Jefferson, the first county seat in Rutherford County and literally taken off the map 50 years ago, is the subject of a Rutherford County Archives…

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Salem Academy or Seminary, 1887-1902

SALEM ACADEMY or SEMINARY 1887-1902 was on the north side of the Salem Road just east of the intersection of that road and the present Kimbro Road. On June 30, 1887, William H. Windrow and Frazier Kimbro sold for $50 each a parcel of land consisting of one acre each.…

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John Hood: Service aids Community

Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal, March 8, 2015 At 83, Murfreesboro resident John Hood still isn’t one to slow down. The former state representative and Middle Tennessee State University graduate and longtime employee still goes to the state Capitol in Nashville to lobby on behalf of his alma mater and…

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