Preserve and Promote OUR local history!
1948 Kittrell High School Basketball Team
Snowy Day on North Maple Street
Raiders Claw Cats 50-44 in First-Ever NCAA Tournament Win!

March 11, 1982, Vanderbilt’s memorial Gynasium Story by Don Harris, Photo by Jack Ross NASHVILLE — “Maybe we were looked at as a sacrificial lamb,” Blue Raider head coach Stan “Ramrod” Simpson said of Middle Tennessee. “That lamb turned into a raging bull tonight.” The raging bull—Middle Tennessee State University’s…
Jakes College, 1890-1904
Davis Food Market, LaVergne, Tennessee
General Thomas Benton Smith

December 28, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal General Thomas Benton Smith was born in 1838 in a hamlet Mechanicsville (a few miles from DeWitt Jobe’s home). He experienced a fun, exciting, and uncomplicated childhood with cousins DeWitt Jobe and Dee Smith. Fate would tragically reveal a coming horizon, as…
Possum Trot School, 1878-1896
Rucker Seminary (Rucker), 1890-1926

RUCKER SEMINARY 1890-c 1926 was located about seven miles south of Murfreesboro on Rucker Road which runs east off the Murfreesboro-Shelbyville Highway. The school was on the north side of the road just east of the railroad and the intersection of the present Rucker-Christiana Road. In a deed dated July…
48 Acres Saved at Stones River National Battlefield
De Jarnett School (Barfield), 1883-1893
Barfield Baptist Heralds 122 Years of Active Ministry

On November 15, 2020, Barfield Baptist Church realized a dream come true, as they celebrated a new expansive building at 550 Veterans Parkway in their new sanctuary. Today we will reflect on the earliest history of this special congregation. The hub of Barfield in primitive days included a general store,…
University of Evansville Men’s Basketball Tragedy
Rockvale Public School, 1910-1927
50-Years Ago: Undefeated Murfreesboro Central marches to Class AAA football title in 1970

December 7, 2020 WGNS Radio At the time, Gene Windham wasn’t even sure it was his best team. Fifty years later, the 1970 Murfreesboro Central squad, Class AAA State Champions in year two of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association football playoffs, is still considered by many as perhaps the…
Rockvale School, 1874-1910
Jackson Ridge School (Rockvale), 1890-1913
College at Maple Closed for Demolition of Pinnacle Financial Partners

December 7, 2020 WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (MURFREESBORO) Demolition of the old five-story Pinnacle Financial Partners building on the corner of College and Maple Streets is underway. Murfreesboro Transportation Department’s Deputy Director Ram Balachandran told WGNS that College Street will be closed between Church and Maple Streets so that the…
1977 MTSU Summer Graduation
Placement Namesake of Communities have Fascinating Historical Significance (part 2)
November 30, 2020 Local Historian Susan Harber My dad Paul Rogers always stated that heritage and culture within a community determines the essence of your soul, as deep, established roots bring you back home to live in peace. Today, we will continue our journey of identifying placement namesake dwellings within…