Sam Stockard, The Murfreesboro Post, June 8, 2017 Barely a month after a local group erected a marker at Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church recognizing its historical significance, someone vandalized the building overnight this week. Please click here to visit the page from the May 6, Decoration Day at Ebenezer Primitive…
Frank Caperton, President RCHS, June 4, 2017 The dedicated volunteers of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp 33 conducted a small service honoring the war dead of the South Sunday afternoon at Murfreesboro’s Evergreen Cemetery. Most do not realize several ‘holidays’ are recognized by the government of Tennessee in addition to…
HALL’S HILL SCHOOL 1906-1929 was at Hall’s Hill on the south side of the Murfreesboro-Hall’s Hill Road. On September 22, 1906, T. H. Wright and wife Jodie D. and J. R. Stroop and wife Lottie B. signed a deed to school directors of the 53rd School District for two acres…
November, 2012 The Eagleville Times The small community of Eagleville was very fortunate to have a “community center” several years before the Library and Community Center was built, next to the Eagleville United Methodist Church, on Highway 99. The home of the Middle Tennessee One Gallus Fox Hunters Association, previously…
The Daily News Journal, May 26, 2017 MURFREESBORO, TN — Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center will celebrate an interactive history exhibit recently completed by MTSU graduate students, the Murfreesboro government announced. The new exhibit, “Education and Empowerment: African American Education in Rutherford County,” will be unveiled at a reception celebration…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, May 22, 2017 Liberty Hill and Sam Davis Home are two invaluable Civil War structures serving as the quintessence of history in our growing town of Smyrna. With great gratitude for extensive research from Native American historian Pat Cummins, I have assembled a story…
CRAWFORD SCHOOL BLACK -1900 was built on the Richard Crawford lot on Rocky Hill Road which runs north off Holly Grove Road. The school was a one-room frame building with Novella Crawford and Mrs. Johnnie Scales as teachers. Susie Rucker Rucker, who did some private teaching in the community, may…
WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, May 18, 2017 Ongoing construction on the Middle Tennessee Boulevard widening project has necessitated the removal of a highly visible campus mainstay in front of Murphy Center. The electronic billboard that has stood outside of Murphy Center’s official entrance since the mid-1980’s was taken down in…
July 4, 1976, Jim Leonhirth, The Daily News Journal Intermittent showers yesterday did not keep thousands of citizens from turning out for the Bicentennial parade and other July 4 activities in Murfreesboro. Hundreds of cars lined the parade route in expectation of inclement weather, but the rains held back until…
May 17, 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…