From www.WGNSRadio.com, October 21, 2015 The legendary Jimi Hendrix once wandered into a small club in Murfreesboro and did what he did best, played the guitar. The Eldorado Club, which was also known as Dance Land, was mainly attended by African Americans in the 1950’s and 60’s. It was located…
Greg Tucker, Murfreesboro Post, October 20, 2015 Are we treading on the remains of the dead on Middle Tennessee Boulevard, State Street and the Rover terminal in Murfreesboro? Most likely. The first Methodist Church was built in 1823 near the northwest corner of what is today the intersection of North…
HARD START SCHOOL 1872-1883 was located in Christiana. It was built behind the present Church of Christ on the knob where Uncle Sandy Murray’s house later stood. It was across from the present Brandon View Baptist Church on Miller Road. Judge Tiliman Davis Johnson, born January 8, 1858, has this…
October 20, 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…
Susan Harber, Daily News Journal, October 18, 2015 Robbie Woodruff was a famed Confederate spy heroine who interacted as a team with her cousin and accomplice, Mary Kate Patterson. Robbie was born on a farm in 1845 in Holly Springs, Miss., to Aaron and Sara White Woodruff. However, early in…
October 13, 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…
October 3, 2015, Rutherford County Historical Society The office building at 307 North Walnut Street was built in 1968 and contains approximately 13,000 of office space. Businesses over the decades include Jones Real Estate, , Quality Printing, Dr. Randall Zorn, Financial Computers, Mid-State Hearing Aid Center, Interim Personnel, Heaven Sent…
ROCK SPRING SCHOOL 1871-1915 was founded “a long time” before J. P. “Pet” Gordon started school in 1871 and closed at the end of the 1914-1915 school term. It was located on Rock Spring Road which runs west of the Murfreesboro-Shelbyville Highway. On March 6, 1874, James M. Holden signed…
