EWINGSVILLE SCHOOL 1899-1925 or 1926 was on the North Milton Road just across the Rutherford County line in Wilson County. Students from both counties attended the school. EWINGSVILLE was first a one-teacher and then a two teacher school. Known teachers were Hannibal Jennings, Quixanna Cook, and Herman Rhodes. Maynard Knight…
BROWNS SCHOOL BLACK 1888-1949, sometimes called ANTNEY BROWN SCHOOL, was in the woods east of TWELVE CORNERS. There was no road to the school. The site today would be at the dead end of Ball Park Road which runs north off Ruel McKnight Road which in turn runs north off…
Michelle Willard, Daily News Journal, May 23, 2016 MURFREESBORO — Neighbors are disappointed by a recent Murfreesboro Planning Commission vote in favor of plans for a proposed apartment complex on Manson Pike that could threaten a historic home. “It saddens me for the history. It saddens me for the cave…
May 24, 2016, 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…
CRIPPLE CREEK SCHOOL c1900-1921 was on the west side of Cripple Creek Road, about two miles north of the Bradyville Road, and a few hundred feet south of the present Presbyterian Church. It was on a farm owned by Russell Patrick. In about 1900 the Standridge Presbyterian Church changed its…
ROCKDALE SCHOOL District 15 1857-c 1917 was located on the south side of Holly Grove Road not far from the Holly Grove Church. On July 18, 1857, Joseph B. Johns and William S. Tune deeded to Trustees William Johns, William S. Tune, and Thomas Hall one acre of land for…
Lifelong Smyrna resident and State Representative Mike Sparks (R-Smyrna) is hosting a highway dedication Monday, May 30, 2:00PM at the Smyrna Greenway trailhead on Fitzhugh Blvd. on the former Sewart Air Force Base. Just in case you aren’t sure as to the location of the Fitzhugh Blvd. Greenway Trailhead:
HERMITAGE ACADEMY 1878-c 1908 was built on a .75 acre lot in Christiana given by A. J. Brandon, Sr., to Trustees B. N. White, I. M. Miller, C. W. Johnson, R. S. Jameson, J. C. Patterson, A. J. Brandon, and N. C. Miller. Thedeed was dated August 24, 1878. The…
Greg Tucker, Murfreesboro Post, May 17, 2016 According to Southern vernacular, if you can fire a shotgun through an open front door and the pellets pass through one or more interior doorways and out the back door, hitting nothing, it’s a “shotgun house.” The most common domestic construction in the…
Thomas Bearden Brown, 90, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away on May 14th, 2016. Visitation will be held at 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17th at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 18th at First Baptist Church. Dr. Noel Schoonmaker,…