DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, GREG TUCKER, 5/25/2014 Monuments and markers are found all across Rutherford County. Some placed by various government entities. Many privately placed in hundreds of Rutherford cemeteries. Some are of curious origin and uncertain history: Julius C. Wade A tall, artistic monument graces the northeast corner of the…
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, April 20, 2014 There it was lost and alone and tucked carefully away in my attic—a favorite, most trusted friend, “My Diary.” In this tattered, white book emerges all my most profound in sights and declaratives about the world as I saw it at…
WGNSRadio.com A Good Neighbor Is Born As the New Year of 1947 approached, rural Rutherford County had a dramatically different feel than that of today. Approximately 8,000 persons populated the entire county. It was a big thing for the county to get its first radio station! Word is that on…
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, April 6, 2014 The calendar can say it is spring. But in Idaho, it is not unusual to have a warm spring day, then the next day a cold gray cloud will cover the mountain range darkening the Western sky. Then suddenly, without warning,…
Murfreesboro City Television, September 6, 2017 Brown’s Mill Dam, owned by the City of Murfreesboro, will be removed during the summer of 2014.
This photo was contributed by Judy Adamson for the 2009 Rutherford County Historical Publication ‘Pictures and the Stories they Tell‘, page 123.
Nashville Public Television, November 12, 2013 GREAT video by Nashville Public Television (www.wnpt.org) regarding Murfreesboro native and resident Astronaut Dr. Rhea Seddon.
Greg Tucker, Daily News Journal, November 10, 2013 Oxford educated, Cambridge graduate, theologian, missionary, architect, author/ historian, teacher, Senate chaplain, skilled physician, politician— George Andrew Smith (1815-68), a/k/a A.T. Wood, was a man for all “seasons” on three continents. According to “A History of Rutherford County’s African American Community” by…
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Charged with the task of selling wartime government programs and war bonds to the American public, the War Advertising Council and the War Finance Committee sought to promote voluntary compliance with bond-buying quotas and rationing programs, while at the same time contributing…
Murfreesboro City Television, November 1, 2013 On this episode of Murfreesboro Storytellers, host John Hood talks to Dr. Carroll Van West, director of MTSU’s Center for Historic Preservation and the newly-named state historian.