BRYANTS GROVE SCHOOL BLACK 1880-c1940 was on the south side of Couchville Pike near the Davidson County line. It was on land given for a school and church by Henry Bryant and wife on August 28, 1880 and by Will Bryant and wife Hattie on January 13, 1913. The two…
TO: Murfreesboro City Board of EducationFROM: John Hodge JonesDATE: March 5, 1990RE: A Review of School and School System Organization—A Personal Statement Reflecting Upon the Past, Present, and Future INTRODUCTIONChanges are rapidly taking place in Rutherford County and Murfreesboro’s education institutions. The history of where we are is relatively young…
TENNESSEE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 1907-1946 was located on the north side of East Main Street in Murfreesboro. In October 1905, an Educational Commission was appointed by the Baptist State Convention of Tennessee with instructions to seek a location and establish a college for women. Murfreesboro, with a population of 6,000,…
TAYLOR SCHOOL 1874-1911 was a district school on the north side of Columbia Road, now Mt. Pleasant Road, about one half mile west of the intersection of that road and Hant Hollow Road. On August 4, 1874, Nathaniel R. Taylor, son of Vincent Taylor, signed a gift deed to the…
KEEBLE SCHOOL c1860-1863, was located in the community of Jefferson. A journal kept by Bettie Ridley Blackmore recorded in a March 1893 entry: “The Keeble school was burnt by Federal troops.” SOURCES: Bettie Ridley Blackmore, “Journal,” TheTennessee Historical Quarterly, March 1953, XII, no. 1. *Gene Sloan, “Jefferson Probably Had County’s…
Rutherford County School Superintendents W. H. Wallace, 1869. He contributed to the first report made by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Report 1869: Nearly all of the teachers have received a partof their salary from the people . . . Schools of some kind have been established in every…
RIDGE SCHOOL HOUSE. On February 11, 1850, William C. Coleman and James Smith deeded one acre of land to William F. Coleman, Thomas Bennett, E. C. Jobe, James Coleman, J. L. Dickie, and W. H. Allen. The land was on the east boundary of W.C. Coleman. There was a free…
MILTON SEMINARY or MILTON MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY 1857-1956 is shown on the Beers Map of 1878. It was on the northeast corner of State Road 96 and the North Milton Road. By 1850 William Byrn, Green Byrn, and Enoch Jones contracted with the Rev. Jared Warren, a Baptist preacher…
EAGLEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1915-1923 was moved in 1915 to its present location on the south side of State Road 99 and about one-fourth mile east of its intersection with 41A. On July 22, 1912, J. E. Sullivan and wife Emma, J. D. Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, and H. W. Sullivan had…
SEMINARY SCHOOL 1859-1961 was first known as STEWART’S CREEK MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY. On March 2, 1859, Robert Cooke deeded four acres of land on the southeast corner of his property to Trustees Benjamin Batey, Leonard Davis, I.R. Peebles, Luckett Davis, James W. Morton, and Alfred Ross and reserved one…