FLOYD SCHOOL BLACK 1911- was located on a now abandoned county road between Floyd Road and Greenwood. It was in the corner of the woods. On April 7, 1911, Martha Clardy deeded the land for a church and school house to Trustees Edward Sutton, Jr., Salem Hughes, Sam Garrett, Fate…
The Rutherford Reader, www.rutherfordreader.com, April 27, 2017 Murfreesboro, TN – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 346, 213 visitors to Stones River National Battlefield in 2016 spent $20.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 322 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative…
Greg Tucker, Murfreesboro Post, April 25, 2017 Sophie took care of Sophie! Educated in Philadelphia, Alfred H. Dashiell came to Tennessee in the 1830s as president of the Nashville Female Academy. After four years at the Academy, he entered the ministry and served four years as pastor of the Presbyterian…
ROCKY FORK SCHOOL 1891-1949 was built in the central part of Rocky Fork community in District 4. It was on the north side of Rocky Fork Road, west of the intersection with Almaville Road, and near the intersection of the Del Thomas Road. On August 26, 1905, W.A. Hall and…
Aldo Amato, The Dail y News Journal, April 24, 2017 MURFREESBORO — Former MTSU football coach William Bethule “Bill” Peck died on Saturday, MTSU announced. Peck, the tenth football coach in program history, died at age 90, the school announced in a news release. Peck led the Blue Raiders from 1970 to 1974…
SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL 1908-1919 was housed in the former SMYRNA FITTING SCHOOL which the County School Board had acquired. On May 30, 1908, W.K. Patterson, Sr., B.B. Gracy, S.E. Hager, John F. Tucker, J.S. Gooch, H.D. Jarratt, and T.W. Dickinson deeded the five acres of property to Board Members B.M.…
Murfreesboro City Television, April 17, 2017 The oldest flying 1937 American Airlines DC-3, called Flagship Detroit, stopped off at the Murfreesboro Municipal Airport for a visit.
Susan Harber, the Daily News Journal, April 17, 2017 While there are unprecedented records on file in the history of our county in the past 200 years, the study of our primeval history is limited and vague. Therefore, the events in our county over 1,000 years ago is elusive. Yet,…
City of Murfreesboro, April 17, 2017 The oldest flying 1937 American Airlines DC-3, called Flagship Detroit, stopped off at the Murfreesboro Municipal Airport for a visit. This style of plane revolutionized airliners.
DILLARD ROSENWALD SCHOOL BLACK 1910’s-1962 was located the west side of the Barfield-Crescent Road near the Webb’s Chapel Methodist Church. It was on the same site as the previous WEBB’S CHAPEL SCHOOL. The school was at first a one-room building which parents of the children helped to build. Later a…