Frank Caperton, President, Rutherford County Historical Society Hello Local Historians! Wow – has 2017 been a great year for the Rutherford County Historical Society or what! Our growth has been unprecedented with the addition of more than 100 memberships. Our ‘Coffee & Conversation’ each Saturday morning continues to be well…
January 5, 1986, The Daily News Journal Melinda Brown server her parents, Buddy and Linda Brown, blackeyed peas during Brown Store’s New Year’s Day celebration.
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, December 18, 2017 The White-Gregory-Posey Home on Nashville Highway near Old Smyrna Lane was one of the oldest and most historical houses in Rutherford County. The home was built by Henry White in 1817 as a tavern. The original structure was comprised of yellow…
Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker gives a brief ‘history lesson’ each month at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) City Council meeting. Movies were closed on Sundays in 1946. That is till the returning vets convinced the Princess and the Roxy otherwise. Young & Ogles Lumber Yard, Ransom Cotton Gin and Murfreesboro Electric…
December 14, 2017, the corner of Florence Road and Enon Springs Road
December 14, 2017
WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, TN, December 12, 2017 The Battle of Stones river took place 155 years ago as of this month. The event will be remembered at the Stones River National Battlefield December 26th through January 2nd.Again, the 155th anniversary for the Battle of Stones River will be commemorated on…
Ransom School House Museum, December 2, 2017 The historic Ransom School House saw several dozen visitors in a very relaxed atmosphere this past Saturday evening. Much laughter, much fellowship and much fun was had by all.
SIMMONS SCHOOL 1884-1914 was located four or five miles north of Eagleville on Rocky Glade Road. Bill Simmons gave the land on which the school was built. The schoolhouse was a small, one-room, weatherboarded building. It had one door at the front and wIndows at each side. The first teacher…
Frank Caperton, Rutherford County Historical Society, November 25, 2017 There are plenty of photos of Murfreesboro’s Cannonsburgh Village on the Internet. This time I spent a couple of hours with Bobby Turman of Cannonsburgh in the Cannonsburgh gift shop.