Dan Whittle, The Murfreesboro Post, January 1, 2012 When former President Jimmy Carter came to Nashville back in October 1980, a stalker followed him with he probable intent of shooting the president, according to recently released government documents. “John Hinckley Jr. was in Nashville the same day (Oct. 9, 1980)…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Sunday, December 11, 2011 By Greg Tucker, President of the Rutherford County Historical Society Not all Civil War “arms” were made for combat. There were a number of “musician’s swords” and at least one extraordinary “Double Barrelled Flintlock Sporting Gun.” Now Rutherford artifacts,…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Sunday, November 27, 2011 By Greg Tucker, President of the Rutherford County Historical Society The view into the ladies’ room was closed but the men’s room continued to be under surveillance. At the time there were very few women employees but privacy concerns…
Remembering Rutherford, Greg Tucker, Page 26 During a lull in the fighting during the Battle of Stones River, Union General William Rosecrans ‘resorted to a very ancient but a very effective species of strategy. By a heavy division of campfires, and by a feigned line of battle, whose only reality…
Rutherford for Real, Greg Tucker, 2011 The eagle mysteriously disappeared in late October, 1967. It returned to its roost fifteen years later in exchange for a brown envelope. No Tennessee college football rivalry was ever more intense than the regional/conference competition between the MTSU Blue Raiders (Murfreesboro, TN) and the…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Sunday, October 2, 2011 By Greg Tucker, President Rutherford County Historical Society These itinerant hucksters, promoters, entertainers and preachers were an odd lot, but they were good at what they did and Rutherford wasprofitable territory. So they came and we made them a…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Sunday, September 18, 2011 By Greg Tucker, President Rutherford County Historical Society Capt. William Lytle did not have good title to the 60 acres of raw land he deeded to the Town Commissioners in July 1812. Indeed, about one third of the original…
Ralph Vaughn, The Murfreesboro Post, September 4, 2011 Matt Murfree, a prominent business and community leader, never gave much thought about his famous name while growing up in a town that honors the legacy of his great-great-great grandfather. Murfree, 66, said his life was almost like any other youngster because…
As published by the Daily News Journal, Sunday, August 21, 2011 By Greg Tucker, President Rutherford County Historical Society In 1936, Woodrow Medlock, an aspiring Baptist preacher driving an Austin, picked up a 26-year-old hitchhiker in Westvue, the Rutherford neighborhood “across the tracks” from central Murfreesboro. The young passenger wanted…
Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, August 14, 2011 Almost a hundred miles from his home and nearly 149 years after his death, the remains of a Jackson County Confederate soldier, who died during the first day’s fighting at the Battle of Stones River, will finally receive the respectful recognition…