Susan Harber, Daily News Journal, March 27, 2016 When I reflect on extraordinary Rutherford County icons Hardy Murfree, James Buchanan, Robert Weakley, Alfred Blackman and Sampson Keeble, I now add one more significant individual named Ernest King Johns to a list of superhuman personas. For more than 200 years, great…
Carley Gordon, WSMV TV, Murfreesboro, Tennessee MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) – The debate over the statues, busts and buildings named after Nathan Bedford Forrest has been going on for months. The last of three meetings to debate the name change of Forrest Hall was held Thursday night, and it may have…
LEATHERS SCHOOL, sometimes called SEED TICK SCHOOL 1893-1923 was located between Salem and Windrow. It was on the north side of Windrow Road at the bend of the road just before Windrow Hill. It was behind the John Haynes house but was farther back than the LAWRENCE CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK.…
Greg Tucker, The Murfreesboro Post, March 23, 2016 The government had to do something with all that cotton! In an effort to aid “cotton belt” farmers during the Great Depression, the U. S. Department of Agriculture purchased a vast quantity of surplus cotton. The raw cotton was ginned and stored…
Murfreesboro’s WGNS Radio, 1450AM/101.5FM, March 23, 2016 Get tickets to the 20th Anniversary’s Willie McGowan Banquet on Saturday, March 26, 2016, at 7:00PM in MTSU’s James Union Building. Tickets are $40 for adults, and $20 for ages 18 and younger. Phone Bradley Academy Museum at 615-962-8773. Also, visit the Bradley…
March 22, 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…
Nancy De Gennaro, Daily News Journal, March 20, 2016 MURFREESBORO — One of the most vivid childhood memories 92-year-old Ernestine Tucker has is her first day at Bradley Academy, an elementary that was Rutherford County’s first school for African-Americans. “My aunt walked us to the school. That’s the way she…
Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal, March 20, 2016 MURFREESBORO — As the debate about the name of Forrest Hall rages on in the Middle Tennessee State University community, the Army ROTC building is not on the university’s draft master plan for the next 10 to 15 years. While the master plan envisions…
Brian Wilson, Daily News Journal, March 20, 2016 MURFREESBORO — The Forrest Hall Task Force will receive its final batch of public input on Thursday about the Middle Tennessee State University building named after the controversial Confederate general. When the 17-member panel convenes at 5:30 p.m, they’ll meet at the…
Rhonda Kay, The Murfreesboro Post, March 15, 2016 Does Possum Trot exist in Rutherford County? Of course it does. We just had the “Possum Trot Community” sign erected. If you head toward Franklin, Tenn., on Highway 96, make a left on Rehobath Road and you’ll run slap dab into it.…