SIMMONS SCHOOL 1884-1914 was located four or five miles north of Eagleville on Rocky Glade Road. Bill Simmons gave the land on which the school was built. The schoolhouse was a small, one-room, weatherboarded building. It had one door at the front and wIndows at each side. The first teacher…
READYVILLE SCHOOL BLACK early 1900’s-1940 was in Cannon County at Readyville near the Rutherford County line. It was on the east side of Porterfield Road about one block north of Tilford’s saw mill and the Woodbury Road. Children from both Cannon and Rutherford Counties attendedthe school. The school, which at…
READYVILLE SCHOOL 1902 or 1903-1919 was located on the east side of Porterfield Road near its intersection with the Woodbury Road. Although in Cannon County, the school was attended also by Rutherford County students. The school was a frame building of three or four rooms with an L-shaped porch. Among…
PRUETT SCHOOL 1874-1928 was on Hoovers Gap Road about two miles north of the Gap. It was on the west side of the road in a sharp curve. In May 1874, Henry and John Pruett gave a gift deed of a parcel of land to School Directors S. J. Cobb,…
Frank Caperton, President, Rutherford County Historical Society, June 8, 2017 What an honor to receive these pics from John Black, Executive Director of the Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport Authority.
HALL’S HILL SCHOOL 1906-1929 was at Hall’s Hill on the south side of the Murfreesboro-Hall’s Hill Road. On September 22, 1906, T. H. Wright and wife Jodie D. and J. R. Stroop and wife Lottie B. signed a deed to school directors of the 53rd School District for two acres…
November, 2012 The Eagleville Times The small community of Eagleville was very fortunate to have a “community center” several years before the Library and Community Center was built, next to the Eagleville United Methodist Church, on Highway 99. The home of the Middle Tennessee One Gallus Fox Hunters Association, previously…
DILLARD ROSENWALD SCHOOL BLACK 1910’s-1962 was located the west side of the Barfield-Crescent Road near the Webb’s Chapel Methodist Church. It was on the same site as the previous WEBB’S CHAPEL SCHOOL. The school was at first a one-room building which parents of the children helped to build. Later a…
BUCHANAN HIGH SCHOOL 1925-1977 was nine miles southeast of Murfreesboro on the west side of the Manchester Highway. The building was constructed on land which had been part of the estate of Governor John Price Buchanan and was named in his honor. John P. Buchanan and wife signed the deed…
MIDLAND SCHOOL 1949-1962 was built across the road from the old MIDLAND SCHOOL which had at one time been called MIDWAY ACADEMY. On January 6, 1949, Mrs. Laura Cothran sold to the Rutherford County School Commission three acres of land for a new school. The school was a project of…