KITTRELL SCHOOL 1889-1912 was opened on the same site as the former 1880 school and the present school. On November 11, 1889, P. M. Puryear and C. O. Abernathy deeded one acre of land to School Directors W. R. Jamison, William Arnett, and M. E. Pitts. The deed located the…
June 10, 2020 Rutherford County Historical Society volunteer and photographer Frank Caperton stopped by the venerable and loved Ransom School House, 717 North Academy Street, Murfreesboro, early one October morning in 2018.
SQUIRREL HILL SCHOOL BLACK 1910’s-1944 was on the west side of the Hall’s Hill-Kittrell Road and about one mile south of the Hall’s Hill store. Land for the school, which was also called HALL’S HILL BLACK, was givenby Jim T. Richardson. The schoolhouse was a one-room frame building with one…
GLORIANNA SCHOOL 1900-1941 was on the Wilson side of the Rutherford-Wilson County line with the playground on the Rutherford side. It was on the north side of the Oregon Road and three miles east of the Cainesville Pike. The GLORIANNA SCHOOL took the place of the OREGON SCHOOL. E. S.…
THE EAGLEVILLE SCHOOL 1884-1890, commonly called the SAVAGE SCHOOL, was first located in the old MALE AND FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL building on the right of the Baptist Church. The school building and church are shown on the Beers Map of 1878. School was started on the second Monday in January,…
BETHEL SCHOOL BLACK 1900-1967 a Rosenwald school, was first located on land which joined Little Bethel Missionary Baptist Church on Holly Grove Road. The land was donated to Rutherford County by the United Sons of Relief Lodge. BETHEL SCHOOL was preceded by CRAWFORD SCHOOL in the area. The second location…
MUD FLAT was a one-room, one-teacher school on Swamp Road. Julia Rooker was a teacher and John Riley Singleton, b. Nov. 15, 1870, was a student. He studied the ‘McGuffy Reader’ and the ‘Blue Back Spellers’. MUD FLAT may have been another name for COLEMAN SCHOOL but no verification can…
BLACK GNAT ACADEMY 1850-1881 was about four miles west of Murfreesboro on the Franklin Road. The school was on the west bank of Overall Creek, two hundred or three hundred yards north of the bridge. The site is shown on the Beers Map of 1878. Col. James Moore King, son…
SILVER SPRING SCHOOL BLACK 1891-1959 was on the east side of Florence Road which runs north of the Nashville Highway. The site was near the river, just south of the intersection of Wade Herrod Road. It was next to achurch. On August 28, 1891, a deed for one and one-half…
JEFFERSON SCHOOL 1850-1878 was on the south side of Jefferson Pike and east of the village. It was near the old Ridley or Davis flour mill and on a lotwhich had been owned by Robert Weakley. The site is indicated on the Beers Map of 1878. The one-room building was…