April 8, 2019, Susan Harber In early 1940s, on the cusp of World War II, Robert Frost, the greatest poet of the 20th century, arrived to Murfreesboro for a special reading at Middle Tennessee State College on the invitation of President Q.M. Smith. Professor Baxter Hobgood was requested by Smith…
April 6, 2019, Ransom School House, Murfreesboro, Tennessee You simply never know what local historians such as Curtis Parish will bring when visiting the historic Ransom School House for ‘Coffee & Conversation’ each Saturday morning…
March 29, 2019, The Rutherford Source Sam Davis Home Executive Director Jenny Lamb began a new chapter in the history of the Sam Davis Home and Plantation by opening the archives for the first time to show what the lives of the Davis women were like in the late nineteenth…
March 1, 2019, A Series by Barry Lamb Haskell, Joshua was born, according to an unverified source on April 9, 1786 in Providence, Rhode Island. He came to Davidson County, Tennessee before 1811 as he appears on a tax list there during that year. It is believed that he came…
Froe Chips, January/February 2019, by Carol Robertson White There are two Burrus family cemeteries in Rutherford County. One Burrus cemetery is nestled dab smack in the middle of Cherry Lane Acres, with residential homes built all around. The cemetery is guarded by an iron fence and was restored years ago…
Froe Chips, January/February 2019, Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker Before World War II, Homer Huddleston and his wife Effie lived in a rented “shotgun house” in Westvue, the working class neighborhood west of the railroad tracks in Murfreesboro. Their home was on the southwest corner of the Mill and Dosie…
Ken Beck, the Murfreesboro Post, December 26, 2018 “And now friends we present Uncle Dave Macon, the Dixie Dewdrop, with his plug hat, gold teeth, chin whiskers, gates-ajar color and that million-dollar Tennessee smile. Let her go Uncle Dave!” To his sons and grandchildren he was known as “Pap,” but…
Wendi Watts, The Daily News Journal, August 30, 1998 Did ‘Holly Golightly’ of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” fame have a Murfreesboro connection?
St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 1, 1959 Did ‘Holly Golightly’ of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” fame have a Murfreesboro connection? Click on the above photo to enlarge.
HAPPY HILL SCHOOL BLACK 1913-1948 was on Marshall Knob,where the rock quarry is now, on the east side of U.S. 231 between Murfreesboro and Christiana. On June 16, 1913, C. C. Henderson and wife Hattie signed deed to the Rutherford County School Board of Education for a school on the…