The Ransom School House, 1976

March 26, 2020, from the Digital Archives of the Rutherford County Historical Society The Ransom School House has been beautiful restored and maintained since this photo was taken c1976, most likely by Dr. Bealer Smotherman, longtime professor at Middle Tennessee State University and local historian. Bealer was alo an avid…

Continue reading

Ransom School House Offers Historical Conversations

February 27, 2020, Lee Rennick, The Rutherford Source On Saturdays at the old Ransom School House, history is not dull facts memorized from a school book, but it is a provocative conversation about stories of people and events that have passed. The same people and events that laid the foundation…

Continue reading

Revitalizing Ransom

June 13, 2005, Doug Davis, The Daily News Journal Historic group plans to revive former private school on Academy A historic preservation group is hoping to restore an 1800s brick home on North Academy Street – the Eliza Ransom Private School – and fill it with classrooms of children once…

Continue reading

Miss (Eliza) Ransom, 70, dies last night

(Published October 28, 2018) The Daily News Journal, September 20, 1935 (Ed. note:  Miss Eliza Ransom and sister Belle Ransom operated the Ransom School at 717 North Academy Street, Murfreesboro, for more than 40 years.  Today, the RCHS is honored to care and use the old Ransom School House as…

Continue reading

Steve Lane of Cedar Barrens Homes

Steve Lane of Cedar Barrens Homes interviews RCHS President Frank Caperton, June 7, 2018 Cedar Barrens Homes is remodeling the home located at 422 North Academy, the intersection of Academy and Bell Streets in Murfreesboro.  The home resembles the Ransom School House.

Continue reading

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!

Continue reading