Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal, April 23, 2015 MURFREESBORO – The Stones River National Battlefield brought more than 272,000 visitors to the Civil War site in Murfreesboro and nearly $15.3 million to the regional economy, Gib Backlund, the battlefield’s chief of operations, said Thursday. About 12,000 more people came to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Susan Harber, Daily News Journal, Sunday, April 19, 2015 When I drive by East Main Street Church of Christ, I look twice over my shoulder to recapture any historical detail I may have missed at an earlier time. The congregation is a special and active place of worship that has…
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…
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…
Greg Tucker, Daily News Journal, April 12, 2015 The antebellum home was apparently built by a future Confederate congressman for his widowed sister. Ironically, it was occupied by a Unionist during the Civil War. The so-called “McFadden House” at 226 North Walnut Street in Murfreesboro was built in the mid-19th…
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…