MT. VIEW SCHOOL BLACK 1870-c1918 met in the old Mt. View Baptist Church on the northwest side of Rocky Fork Road and about two miles southwest of the old Nashville Turnpike. According to a history kept in the church, Clem Ross gave the land in 1870. Teachers were Marie Bright,…
Michelle Willard, the Daily News Journal, February 28, 2017 MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Local historians are searching for long lost pieces of African-American history in Rutherford County. Rutherford County Archivist John Lodl is on the hunt for copies of The Murfreesboro News, the town’s newspaper for the African-American community. The paper…
Nancy De Genarro, The Daily News Journal, February 19, 2017 It’s hard to imagine that homes, barns, vineyards and churches once stood on the stark landscape of native grasses and woods at Stones River National Battlefield. The Cemetery Community settled shortly after the end of the Civil War and was…
Larry Flowers, WRKN.com, Nashville Channel 2, February 18, 2017 Scales and Sons Funeral Home, was one of the first African-American owned businesses in Rutherford County. To really understand the total impact the Scales family has made on the Rutherford County community, we have to go way back. The year was…
Saturday, February 18, 2017, Frank Caperton, President of the Rutherford County Historical Society Saturday, February 18, 2017 was an incredible celebration of the community once known as ‘Cemetery’. The African American Heritage Society of Rutherford County, the Friends of the Stones River National Battlefield, MTSU and the Stones River National…
How many of realize there was a thriving community located on present day Stones River National Battlefield? How many of us realize this community, known as ‘Cemetery’ was created by freed slaves after the Civil War? Yes, a Freedmen’s community known as Cemetery emerged on the landscape where the Battle…
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.
BRACEY SCHOOL BLACK late 1800’s was located about 1.5 miles north of Midland. It was on the west side of the road on the property of Wright Bracey, a school teacher, preacher, and farmer. The building was a one-room log cabin. The benches were hewn logs, flat on top and…
BROWNS SCHOOL BLACK 1888-1949, sometimes called ANTNEY BROWN SCHOOL, was in the woods east of TWELVE CORNERS. There was no road to the school. The site today would be at the dead end of Ball Park Road which runs north off Ruel McKnight Road which in turn runs north off…
