BURKS HOLLOW SCHOOL 1847-1945 or 1946 was located on Burks Hollow Road about two miles southwest of Donnell’s Chapel on the Bradyville Road. It was in the junction of Rutherford, Cannon, and Bedford Counties. On October 29, 1847, John W. Hutton deeded one acre of land to Common School Commissioners…
Ginny Olerud Williams, Gil’s Ace Hardware, May 20, 2018 “Today would be my Mom’s 93rd Birthday. She is 28 years old in this picture dated 1953 in the Rutherford Courier. She is in the first Grocery Store. My Dad and Mom were a great team! Betsy Waldron, thanks to David…
ROBERTS ACADEMY is shown on the Dixie Highway Map of Rutherford County as being on the east side of the Lebanon Highway and north of the present Osborne Lane. It was later bought by B. L. Baskin. SOURCES: Interview, May 11, 1984, with William Baskin,grandson of B. L. Baskin. *Sarah…
Frank Caperton, President, Rutherford County Historical Society, May 16, 2018 Many thanks to lifelong Rutherford County resident Judy Adamson! From the Daily News Journal, January 8, 1981: The 1956 graduating class of Lascassas High School, along with the class of 1955, held a reunion at the school (ed. Lascassas School)…
Mariah Timms, The Daily News Journal. May 10, 2018 It has been 100 years since the first class sat at their desks in Bradley Academy’s current structure on Murfreesboro’s Academy Street. To celebrate that anniversary, and the 50th anniversary of the Class of 1968, Bradley Academy’s Centennial Celebration will host…
Margie Weatherford, Rutherford County Historical Society, May 9, 2018 Each spring, Jill Mayfield Austin and her class put on quite the show with a living display of history.
City of Murfreesboro, May 8, 2018 “The House Still Standing” documents the local and family history of the Gannaway/Ganaway name. Burrell Gannaway (1785-1853) was a slaveholder and Rutherford County pioneer who fought in the war of 1812 and served as one of Murfreesboro’s first alderman. King Daniel Ganaway (1884-1944) was…
Susan Harber, May 7, 2018 Charlie Jacobus (1923-2013), a citizen of Smyrna for 48 years, was an accomplished baker and well known in our nation for his culinary skills. He also served in World War II’s largest engagements, including D-Day invasion of Normandy and in Cherbourg. Moreover, he was on…
Sunday, April 29, 2018, Murfreesboro, TN The Murfreesboro Police Department held an open house showing off the new $55.4 million headquarters. Thank you WGNS Radio for the coverage: The new headquarters is over 135-thousand square feet and Bowen says the best part is all police divisions will be under one…
April 30, 2018, Frank Caperton, Rutherford County Historical Society Springfield is located on Manson Pike, just west of the I-24 and Medical Center Parkway. Springfield was built in 1805 by Gen. John Hunter Smith of Revolutionary War fame. During the Civil War, Federal soldiers were quartered in the west side…