The Daily News Journal, July 6, 2017 MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Mark your calendars for Oakland’s July Jamboree Summer Picnic on the grounds featuring The Knott Brothers Band, all-you-can-eat fried catfish and chicken and spirits by Prichard’s Distillery. The summer picnic-style party will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 14,…
Longtime Rutherford County Historian Ernie Johns left a treasure of old issues of the Daily News Journal to the RCHS. I found this ad from Jackson Brothers Chevrolet in an insert titled ‘The Mini Page’, July 1, 1973.
The Dixie Flyer, the Official Newsletter of the NC&StL Preservation Society, Spring 2016 The following are excerpts from the NC&StL Bulletin, March 1945 Why Would Anyone Want to Evaporate Milk? A Brief History By David Ibata Up through the mid-19th Century, drinking milk was a privilege of those who owned…
The Dixie Flyer, the Official Newsletter of the NC&StL Preservation Society, Spring 2016 The following are excerpts from the NC&StL Bulletin, March 1945 Switching the Carnation Milk Plant at Murfreesboro By Mark S. Womack The era of the Carnation Milk Plant in Murfreesboro began in the late 1920s. For many…
Dan Epright, The Murfreesboro Post, July 5, 2017 Civil War-era leveling as reprisal for guerrilla raids against Union supply trains. Devastating, city destroying tornadoes in 1900. With roots reaching back to the 1700s, La Vergne has prevailed through peril, resurrected time and again and finally incorporated in 1972. The scrappy…
Nancy DeGennaro, The Daily News Journal, July 2, 2017 Local man receives highest honor for folk arts World champion buck dancer Thomas Maupin was milking one of his goats when he got a call from Washington, D.C., that made his heart swell. He’d been named a recipient of the 2017…
Cat Murphy, the Murfreesboro Post, June 28, 2017 It was the year it snowed in Miami. Riverdale High School was only about five years old when President Jimmy Carter was sworn in that January, and in August Elvis Presley would be found dead. But on this day, March 25, 1977,…
Murfreesboro City Television, June 27, 2017 This week on NCTV, we head to Cannon County and visit a historic business.
From lifelong Murfreesboro resident Tim Davis: “Circa 1972 6th grade Hobgood field trip to Land Between the Lakes.”
Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker gives a brief ‘history lesson’ each month at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) City Council meeting. Want to learn about Murfreesboro’s Old City Cemetery? Click the pic below and enjoy the minute video.