Michelle Willard, The Daily News Journal, May, 29, 2018 The sticky sweet smell of honeysuckle filled the air as Daryl Webb ducked his 6-foot-tall frame under scrub brush, braving snakes and ticks to show his sister the final resting place of one of Murfreesboro’s founding fathers. “You’d never know this…
ST. PAUL SCHOOL BLACK 1889-1912 was in Old Jefferson in District 6. It was about one-fourth mile east of the square toward the river and on the left side of the road. On January 30, 1889, John M. Reese and wife Mary H. signed a deed for one square acre…
Connie Esh and John Butwell, the Murfreesboro Post, May 10, 2016 Not everybody still remembers Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower, the top Allied general in Europe during World War II and later, a two-term President of the United States in the 1950s. But Charles Edward Neal remembers getting chewed out by him, praised by…
May 10, 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…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, May 8, 2016 I have always been fascinated by quilting as an artistic expression in Rutherford County. Both my grandmother Emily Johns and great-grandmother Helen Johns of Smyrna hand-quilted all of their lives. The historical value of these treasures is highly valued as a…
PERU SCHOOL 1894-1912 was on Maddox Lane, between Sharp Springs Road and Weakley Road, and north of the Smyrna Air Base. In a deed dated August 21, 1894, A. V. Maddox and wife Mary Jane sold to School Directors Thomas Miller, Robert Mason, and R. H. White one acre of…
MRS. WARD’S SCHOOL 1878-c 1897 was a subscription school north of the Old Nashville Turnpike and west of the Florence Road on an unnamed country road no longer in existence. On October 2, 1878, Richard W. Wade and wife Narcissa Neal Wade sold to Samuel Weakley, W. L. Davis, and…
McCLURE’S SCHOOL f1. 1880’s-before 1891 was on the northeast side of the Old Nashville Turnpike and west of the Florence Road. It was just west of Sky Harbor which was built on Crosthwait land. The large one-room frame building was both a school and a Presbyterian Church. Eliza Crosthwait was…
Please visit and consider signed the on line petition to help save and restore the 209-year-old Johns-King House at 845 Old Jefferson Pike in Smyrna, Tennessee by clicking here. “We are requesting the Rutherford County Commission allocate $150,000 to purchase this 209 year old historic landmark home at 845 Old Jefferson Pike in…
LONE OAK SCHOOL 1878-1919 was located at the intersection of Baker Road and the Old Nashville Turnpike. It was early known as ETTA’S CHAPEL SCHOOL and then as School 2 in District no. 6. The site is shown on the Beers Map of 1878 as Chapel and S.H. In a…