Remembering 100th anniversary of Murfreesboro tornado
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, March 24, 2013 Editor’s note: This is an article taken from “The Accent,” published Dec. 9, 1979. Funneling wind swept through Rutherford County and lightning and thunder crashed to awaken and scare residents the morning of March 21, 1913. “It came from the southwest…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
March 21, 2013, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with Short Mountain Distillery. 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…
Sam Davis Video, Tennessee Civil War Trail
Tennessee Civil War Trail, March 14, 2013 Featuring a historic site with 1860s home, Middle Tennessee museum and outbuildings. Learn the story of Civil War hero Sam Davis, called the “Boy Hero of the Confederacy.”
Baseball clubs create new field of dreams
Travis Swann, The Murfreesboro Post, March 14, 2013 Spring training has arrived early for a group of local Middle Tennessee baseball aficionados. When speaking of “early,” we’re talking about the early days of the 1860s. Beginning in May, the Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball will be in full swing…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
March 12, 2013, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones 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…
Discover Rutherford: Gum hold memories of family
DNJ, Mark Bell, Monday, March 11, 2013 GUM — The community could just as well be somewhere over the rainbow, but instead it’s just a few miles down the road from downtown Murfreesboro, off Manchester Pike and a little past Buchanan. The unincorporated Gum community in southeast Rutherford County is perhaps…
Heritage Center remembers Sarah Childress Polk
The Murfreesboro Post, March 11, 2013 In celebration of Women’s History Month, The Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County will present “Sarah Childress Polk: First Lady of Style.” The featured speaker is Tom Price, curator of the James K. Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia, Tennessee. The free community heritage…
Last week marked historic moment for Murfreesboro
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, March 10, 2013 Thursday marked an important date of history for Rutherford County. It was on this day 151 years ago that the strategic city of Murfreesboro would forever be changed. As the springtime beauty of the redbuds blanketed the forests in crimson, a…
Few Know the Courage and Suffering of Dewitt Jobe
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 3/10/2013 Dewitt Jobe and Sam Davis were Coleman Scouts for the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. They were spies for the Confederacy. Both died at the hands of the enemy while refusing to name and betray their sources. Davis is remembered as the…
Remembering the Alamo
Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, March 10, 2013 Wednesday marked the 177th anniversary of the end of one of the most courageous, albeit ill-fated and hopeless standoffs in American history, when fewer than 200 brave citizens attempted to hold off a Mexican army of more than 6,000 in the…
Sparks inspired by fiery Civil War story
Jonathan Fagan, The Murfreesboro Post, March 7, 2013 Almost exactly 150 years ago today, a Confederate hero was just beginning a path that would lead to his torturous death, and now a local politician has decided to honor his legacy. The waning winter weeks of early 1863 had seen Confederate…
Oaklands Mansion – Weddings Dresses Exhibit
It’s about that time once again. Wedding Dress Exhibit is coming January 12, 2014. For more information visit Oaklands Historic House Museum on Facebook or www.oaklandsmuseum.org.
Battlefield tourism creates $9M for local economy
The Murfreesboro Post, March 3, 2013 A new National Park Service report for 2011 shows that the 187,000 visitors came to Stones River National Battlefield. A new National Park Service report for 2011 shows that the 187,000 visitors to Stones River National Battlefield spent more than $9.9 million in communities…
Little Hope Memories Linger
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, MARK BELL, 2/24/2013 – When LaRue Chaney was a child, she was taught that — despite growing up in a place called Little Hope — goals, dreams and, indeed, “hope” are what life is all about. Chaney, a life-long resident of the community that according to local…
Caves Concealed Runaways, Rebels & Revelers
As published by the Daily News Journal, February 24, 2013 Rutherford County is honeycombed by 129 documented caves. The best known and most spectacular is the Snail Shell Cave system with seven known entrances and over 12 miles of charted passages near Rockvale. The most fabled and neglected is the…
Greatest Generation served community after war
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, February 24, 2013 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…
Murfreesboro basketball legends share memories
February 17, 2013, The Murfreesboro Post, Dan Whittle During the middle of the 20th century, old Murfreesboro Central High School was consistently in the top tier of ranked basketball teams in Tennessee. During the 1940s through early 60s, the old Central High School in Murfreesboro was consistently in the top…
New County Historian Past provides Lessons
DNJ, Scott Broden, Sunday, February 10, 2013 — When it comes to local heritage, new Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker plans to visit schools to teach the next generation about the local people and events of past years. “That’s what has shaped who we are and what we are today,”…
Students get first look at Lincoln’s work
Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, February 14, 2013 When Heather Chaput entered the Tennessee State Museum’s Freedom’s Call Emancipation Proclamation essay contest, she never dreamed she would win. “Things like this don’t happen to people you know, especially not me,” said Chaput, a junior at Daniel-McKee Alternative School. Chaput explained…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
February 13, 2013, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones takes a look back at the Princess Theater and more. 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…