RANSOM SCHOOL 1907-1930 was a private elementary school held at 717 North Academy Street in Murfreesboro. Some remember the school as having one long frame room added to the building. Others remember a room in the brick building with a smaller room on the west side for mathematics classes. Miss…
The WILLIAMSON SCHOOL HOUSE, 1909 was on the Rocky Fork Road about three or four miles south of the ROCKY FORK SCHOOL but on the other side of the road. It was a one-room frame building. George Williamson and Willis Bennett were teachers. SOURCE: Interview, Oct. 24, 1985, with Nettie…
HAYNES SCHOOL BLACK 1909-1946 was on the north side of Shores Road and about two and one-half miles west of Beasley Road. It was on a lane that at one time led to the house and cemetery of the Blackman plantation. On August 28, 1909, Charles Haynes and wife Caroline…
POPLAR GROVE ACADEMY 1852 was “on the turnpike road leading from Nashville to Jefferson, three miles west of the latter place, on Stewart’s Creek, Rutherford County, Tennessee.” The school was one mile north of the Smyrna depot and one mile east of the Nashville and Chattanoogarailway. It was across the…
McFADDEN SCHOOL 1939-fl. 1972 was erected on the same site as the previous two schools. This building was erected along the same architectural plans as its predecessor but with improvements. There were sixteen classrooms, four of which were made from the space in the basement formerly occupied by the NYA…
WALNUT GROVE ACADEMY c1830-c1900 was located on the Jefferson Pike near its intersection with the present Sam Davis Highway. It was near the site of the present Stones River Baptist Church (ed. note: the intersection of Nissan Blvd. and Jefferson Pike, across from Gil’s Ace Hardware). The school is shown…
FLETCHER’S SCHOOLHOUSE prior to Civil War was probably located some one hundred yards north of the James Franklin Fletcher plantation house which stood on the north side of the Bradyville Pike just outside of Murfreesboro. The location of the farm is shown on the 1878 Beers Map as being about…
October 2, 2019, The Rutherford Source, Keith Ryan Cartwright The Hayes family has been in Rockvale for more than a century. Frank Hayes is a purple heart recipient, served in World War II under Gen. George S. Patton and is the oldest known Rockvale graduate still alive. Friday, Sept 13,…
Powell’s Chapel School, 1878-1926 was located about halfway between Walter Hill and Jefferson, about two miles north of the Jefferson turnpike, and about fifty yards from Powell’s Chapel Road. The road today is known as Powell’s Chapel Road. Both the Baptist Church and schoolhouse are shown on the 1878 Beers…
EATON COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 1853- or TENNESSEE BAPTIST FEMALE INSTITUTE 1854-Civil War was in Murfreesboro on two acres of land bought from Dr. James Maney on September 13, 1869, by Trustees James M. Haynes, John W. Hall, and M. Ransom. The school was between High and Maney Avenues and bordered…