The Daily News Journal, February 9, 2016 MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s Forrest Hall task force will host an off-camp us open forum later this month to get more feedback about whether to change the name of the building that houses the university’s ROTC program, according to a news release from the…
Scott Broden, Daily News Journal, February 9, 2016 MURFREESBORO — The city government announced Monday it reached a $1.55 million agreement with Franklin Synergy Bank for the acquisition of 1.9 acres of property on the corner of East College and Church Street. The bank operates in the former First United…
February 9, 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…
Connie Esh, Murfreesboro Post, February 8, 2016 In a rare five-hour meeting Wednesday night that lasted past midnight, the Murfreesboro Planning Commission deferred action on a West Thompson Lane development opposed by about 20 of its neighbors who attended the meeting and spoke. However, protests by preservationists and others who…
OAK GROVE SCHOOL 1888-1938 was on Oak Grove Road and near the Old Leb Church. It was “a hundred yards north of Dry Creek and about the same distance east of the road.” It was the third school in the Link Community, following FATE LAMB CORNER SCHOOL, and before that,…
February 2, 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…
January 26, 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…
Scott Broden, the Daily News Journal, January 25, 2016 MURFREESBORO — Neighbors continue to oppose 269 proposed apartments despite the developer promising to preserve a 207-year-old house as a residence for the property manager. “It doesn’t make me happy at all,” Tammie Cleek told the developers during a Thursday night meeting…
Greg Tucker, Murfreesboro Post, January 22, 2016 For Methodists, the Civil War did not end with the Confederate surrender in 1865. Several protestant denominations in the United States split into northern and southern factions in the decades before the war. At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in…
CARTER’S CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK 1878-about 1916 was on the east side of Cripple Creek Road, about one-fourth mile north of Donnell’s Chapel which was on the Bradyville Road. It was next to Carter’s Chapel Baptist Church. Jim Carter gave the land for the school, the site of which is shown…