History Break “A Vast Storehouse” – Stones River National Battlefield
Murfreesboro City Television, September 11, 2014 The Stones River National Battlefield presents “A Vast Storehouse”.
Category: People Places and Stories
Rutherford County bank routinely issued three-dollar bills
Remembering Rutherford, Daily News Journal, August 24, 2014, Greg Tucker The old expression “phony as a three-dollar bill” indicates that something is believed to bogus, counterfeit, false, odd or peculiar. The obvious source for the phrase was familiar paper currency. There were ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties, fifties, hundreds and…
Remembering Rutherford: Reconstruction court filled with debtors
Remembering Rutherford, Daily News Journal, August 9, 2014, Greg Tucker Barely a year after the Appomattox surrender ended the Civil War, the former mayor of Murfreesboro (Alfred Miller) filed debt collection suits against a former Confederate officer and a dozen others. During most of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rutherford…
The way we were, and ready for 25 more!
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, August 3, 2014 There is not a week that goes by that I don’t hear someone who grew up here say, “What has happened to Rutherford County. I just don’t recognize it anymore. I’m really glad that I grew up here in those good…
Legendary ‘hotspot’ – The Anderson Motel
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, July 20, 2014 It was the 1950’s and 60s – the days of the greasers, sock hops, hula hoops, Luci and Desi, “kookie,” televisions topped with rabbit ears, and restaurants lined with multi-colored, neon designs. All of these symbolized American popular culture of the…
Buchanan High’s Shelton saw Full Century
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 7/13/2014 Buchanan High’s Shelton saw full century During the summer months, the young principal visited homes in southeast Rutherford and neighboring counties recruiting students, particularly those with athletic potential. His efforts found success. From the 1870s to the mid-1920s, those seeking education in southeast Rutherford…
Harber’s History Lesson: Mooneys brought high standards for education
Harber’s History Lesson, Daily News Journal, July 6, 2014, Susan Harber The Mooney School in Murfreesboro was renowned for its high achieving curriculum and all-star athletics as a private preparatory boys school. After the original campus in Franklin burned in the first year, the school was relocated to East Main Street in…
Jesse Messick – Founder of Uncle Dave Macon Days
Gloria Shacklett Christy, Murfreesboro Post, June 29, 2014 By 1987, after its small beginnings as a one day banjo pickin’ contest, Uncle Dave Macon Days had become one of the Southeast’s fastest growing old-time music festivals. 1987 marked the 11th Annual Uncle Dave Macon Days. In 1986, Congress had declared…
Lions benefits provided lottery-style Raffles
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 6/22/2014 The big raffle in 1946 was a crowd-pleaser and a financial success. An even bigger raffle in 1950 left many wondering. The first Lions Club in Rutherford County was established in 1933 and met in the new James K. Polk Hotel. Committed to community…
County fairgrounds flourished, failed, failed again
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 6/8/2014 It began with “Yankee capital” and ended with a tavern, but off and on for nine decades it was a much anticipated Rutherford County event. In 1868 a group of northern investors acquired part of the Alfred Miller estate about two miles south…
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Rutherford County bank routinely issued three-dollar bills
Remembering Rutherford, Daily News Journal, August 24, 2014, Greg Tucker The old expression “phony as a three-dollar bill” indicates that something is believed to bogus, counterfeit, false, odd or peculiar. The obvious source for the phrase was familiar paper currency. There were ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties, fifties, hundreds and…
Remembering Rutherford: Reconstruction court filled with debtors
Remembering Rutherford, Daily News Journal, August 9, 2014, Greg Tucker Barely a year after the Appomattox surrender ended the Civil War, the former mayor of Murfreesboro (Alfred Miller) filed debt collection suits against a former Confederate officer and a dozen others. During most of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rutherford…
The way we were, and ready for 25 more!
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, August 3, 2014 There is not a week that goes by that I don’t hear someone who grew up here say, “What has happened to Rutherford County. I just don’t recognize it anymore. I’m really glad that I grew up here in those good…
Legendary ‘hotspot’ – The Anderson Motel
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, July 20, 2014 It was the 1950’s and 60s – the days of the greasers, sock hops, hula hoops, Luci and Desi, “kookie,” televisions topped with rabbit ears, and restaurants lined with multi-colored, neon designs. All of these symbolized American popular culture of the…
Buchanan High’s Shelton saw Full Century
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 7/13/2014 Buchanan High’s Shelton saw full century During the summer months, the young principal visited homes in southeast Rutherford and neighboring counties recruiting students, particularly those with athletic potential. His efforts found success. From the 1870s to the mid-1920s, those seeking education in southeast Rutherford…
Harber’s History Lesson: Mooneys brought high standards for education
Harber’s History Lesson, Daily News Journal, July 6, 2014, Susan Harber The Mooney School in Murfreesboro was renowned for its high achieving curriculum and all-star athletics as a private preparatory boys school. After the original campus in Franklin burned in the first year, the school was relocated to East Main Street in…
Jesse Messick – Founder of Uncle Dave Macon Days
Gloria Shacklett Christy, Murfreesboro Post, June 29, 2014 By 1987, after its small beginnings as a one day banjo pickin’ contest, Uncle Dave Macon Days had become one of the Southeast’s fastest growing old-time music festivals. 1987 marked the 11th Annual Uncle Dave Macon Days. In 1986, Congress had declared…
Lions benefits provided lottery-style Raffles
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 6/22/2014 The big raffle in 1946 was a crowd-pleaser and a financial success. An even bigger raffle in 1950 left many wondering. The first Lions Club in Rutherford County was established in 1933 and met in the new James K. Polk Hotel. Committed to community…
County fairgrounds flourished, failed, failed again
DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 6/8/2014 It began with “Yankee capital” and ended with a tavern, but off and on for nine decades it was a much anticipated Rutherford County event. In 1868 a group of northern investors acquired part of the Alfred Miller estate about two miles south…