Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, February 5, 2017 Long Hunter State Park includes 2,600 pristine acres along 30 miles of shoreline in both Davidson and Rutherford counties. The area became a state park in 1974 and has four segments, including Couchville (center), Baker’s Grove (north), Bryant Grove (south) and…
February 3, 2017 The African America Heritage Society, the Stones River National Battlefield and the Friends of the Stones River National Battlefield created this three-panel brochure helping keep the memories of of the community once known as Cemetery alive.
NCTV, February 2, 2017 This week on NCTV, we visit the Sam Davis Home in Smyrna, Tennessee.
MIDLAND SCHOOL 1949-1962 was built across the road from the old MIDLAND SCHOOL which had at one time been called MIDWAY ACADEMY. On January 6, 1949, Mrs. Laura Cothran sold to the Rutherford County School Commission three acres of land for a new school. The school was a project of…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, January 21, 2017 Marymont, named for Mary Rucker Donnell on Rucker Lane, has shined as a rare historical jewel in our county for 155 years. The home of Southern Colonial architecture was listed with the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 1795,…
Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker, The Murfreesboro Post, January 24, 2017 It was all in the family! Federal funding was approved to establish the Murfreesboro Housing Authority in 1950. The authority was originally created to acquire property for “slum clearance” and to build low-cost housing. One target area in Murfreesboro…
NCTV, January 23, 2017 This week on NCTV, we travel to Murfreesboro and check out the Natural History Museum which features rock, fossils and dinosaurs!
January 12, 2018, Gina Fann, MTSUNews.com Funeral services were held Jan. 11 for MTSU theater Professor Emerita Dorethe “Dot” Pigg Tucker, who died Jan. 8 at the age of 97. A student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a graduate of then-Middle Tennessee State College, Mrs. Tucker joined…
Gina Logue, MTSU News MTSU’s Center for Historic Preservation will usher in the new year by documenting key historic properties along the Trail of Tears. For the fourth consecutive year, The National Park Service’s National Trails Intermountain Region has awarded a grant to the center for the completion of a…
