Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
June 16, 2014, WGNS Radio Truman visits with the Central High School Class of 1964. 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…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
June 9, 2014, WGNS Radio Truman visits with WWII Veteran Bill Allen and Ida Lee Allen. 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…
County fairgrounds flourished, failed, failed again
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 6/8/2014 It began with “Yankee capital” and ended with a tavern, but off and on for nine decades it was a much anticipated Rutherford County event. In 1868 a group of northern investors acquired part of the Alfred Miller estate about two miles south…
Smyrna Depot Revival
Train station project helps to promote Smyrna downtown revitalization efforts By Christopher Merchant The Daily News Journal, June 8, 2014 SMYRNA — The train depot between Front Street and South Lowry Street has been a common sight for Smyrna residents for decades, but community organizers said they want it to…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
June 3, 2014, 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…
The Princess Theatre: city’s first picture show
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro post, June 1, 2014 The Princess Theatre: city’s first picture show – The Murfreesboro Post On a bright summer morning complete with a crystal blue sky, Annie Byrn sat on the porch of her new Main Street home. At her side were all her dollies,…
Lonely monuments provide history, mystery
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 5/25/2014 Monuments and markers are found all across Rutherford County. Some placed by various government entities. Many privately placed in hundreds of Rutherford cemeteries. Some are of curious origin and uncertain history: Julius C. Wade A tall, artistic monument graces the northeast corner of the…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
May 20, 2014, 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…
A Memorial Day story: Visit to Murfreesboro, 1944
Gloria Shacklett-Christie, Murfreesboro Post Rutherford County provided more than 4,000 men for active service in World War II. One of those men who served was my father, Richard Claude Shacklett. The circumstances surrounding war times had brought two very different people together from opposite ends of the country. On Feb.…
Jordan School, c1880
JORDAN SCHOOL 1880’s was on Vaughn Road which runs west off Beasley Road in the Blackman area. Names of Blackman and Bass are on the Beers Map of 1878. Mary Bass Blackman, b. April 9, 1875, rode her horse to school. She was a student. SOURCE: *Bessie Lee Batey Haynes,…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
May 6, 2014, 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…
WHITTLE: History lives here and columnist Vinson tells it well
Dan Whittle, Murfreesboro Post, May 2, 2014 I’ve always loved history. Specifically, I love well-written history, such as that shared recently about infamous American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde by fellow Middle Tennessee newspaper columnist Mike Vinson, one of those rare gifted writers who breathes interest and new life into his…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
May 1, 2014, WGNS Radio Truman visits with the Central High School graduating class of 1964. 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…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
April 2, 2014, WGNS Radio Truman visits with the 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…
1966 diary evokes fond memories of the prom
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, April 20, 2014 There it was lost and alone and tucked carefully away in my attic—a favorite, most trusted friend, “My Diary.” In this tattered, white book emerges all my most profound in sights and declaratives about the world as I saw it at…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Albert Gore Research Center
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Oakland’s Historic House Museum unveils new website
The Murfreesboro Post, April 14, 2014 Oakland’s Historic House Museum unveils new website – The Murfreesboro Post Have you noticed our website looks different? Oaklands Historic House Museum recently partnered with Rowland Solutions, a Murfreesboro web development company, to build a new website to showcase all Oaklands has to offer.…
Independent Hill School, 1922-1940
INDEPNDENT HILL SCHOOL 1922-1940 was on the south side of Independent Hill Road, about one and one-half miles west of its intersection with the Almaville Road in District 4. On May 13, 1922, W. S. Newsome and wife sold to the County Board of Education one acre of land for…
The Early Years of WGNS Radio (1940’s – 1960’s)
WGNSRadio.com A Good Neighbor Is Born As the New Year of 1947 approached, rural Rutherford County had a dramatically different feel than that of today. Approximately 8,000 persons populated the entire county. It was a big thing for the county to get its first radio station! Word is that on…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
April 8, 2014, WGNS Radio Truman visits with the Rutherford County Archivist and GIS Coordinator 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…