A Day at the Sam Davis home, Frank Caperton, November 25, 2016 When was the last time you visited the Sam Davis Home and Plantation? I’ll be the first to admit – it has been far too long since my last visit. I spent a beautiful November afternoon at Smyrna’s…
Who remembers the day SportsCom opened? Many thanks to WGNS Radio, 1450AM or 101.9FM (www.wgnsradio.com) for documenting the opening of Murfreesboro’s SportsCom! June, 1987: Joe B. Jackson was Murfreesboro Mayor; E.C. Fite, Jr. was City manager and such as John Pittard and Mary Hutta were on the City Council. Take…
Who remembers ‘”Heart of Tennessee”, by Central Middle School geography teacher and 1987 Tennessee Teacher of the Year and 1988 National Teacher of the Year Terry Weeks?
Rutherford County’s Confederate Guardian of Peace Monument was unveiled November 7, 1901, facing east down East Main Street. It was moved to its current location in 1914. There is a reason the local historians refer to this monument as the ‘Confederate Peace Memorial’… The Memorial was moved to it’s current location,…
Page 13, ‘Pictures and the Stories they Tell’, by Frank Caperton and Susan Daniel, 2008 The old Murfreesboro City Hall and Fire Hall was located on the corner of South Church and Vine Street till razed in the early 1940’s to make way for the expansion of Murfreesboro’s Goldstein’s Department Store.…
Connie Esh, The Murfreesboro Post, August 31, 2016 Saturday afternoon was definitely “old school” for four of the five remaining 1943 graduates of the “Old Rock School.” The Smyrna High School Class of ’43 gathered at O’Charley’s in Smyrna for their 73rd class reunion. All four graduates who attended are…
Ever wonder why there is an old smokestack behind Haynes Bros. Lumber on the corner of Broad Street and Old Fort Pkwy.? One of the largest milk plants in the southeastern United States was the Carnation Milk plant.
Who remembers the old Castlewood home? How about Riverside? The Tarpley House? Evergreen? This is page 94 from ‘Pictures and the stories they tell’, Frank Caperton & Susan Daniel, 2008, available for only $45 by clicking on the ‘Publications’ tab at the top of this page.
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Elam (great grandfather of Ed ‘Sonny‘ Elam) was the surgeon for the 45th Tennessee (Confederate) during the Civil War. After the war he returned to the Rucker Community to continue his medical practice and raise his eight children with wife Elizabeth Snell Elam. He opened the original…
