May 23, 2020, The Ransom School House The Rutherford County Historical Society presents the ‘Why we love OUR Local History’ series. This episode features Bill ‘Mr. Murfreesboro’ Wilson and Smyrna, Tennessee historian Marty Luffman. Filmed May 23, 2020 on the front porch of the historic Ransom School House, 717 North…
May 23, 2020, The Ransom School House The Rutherford County Historical Society presents the ‘Why we love OUR Local History’ series. This episode features RCHS President Walter White. Filmed May 23, 2020 on the front porch of the historic Ransom School House, 717 North Academy Street, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
BETHEL SCHOOL BLACK 1900-1967 a Rosenwald school, was first located on land which joined Little Bethel Missionary Baptist Church on Holly Grove Road. The land was donated to Rutherford County by the United Sons of Relief Lodge. BETHEL SCHOOL was preceded by CRAWFORD SCHOOL in the area. The second location…
MUD FLAT was a one-room, one-teacher school on Swamp Road. Julia Rooker was a teacher and John Riley Singleton, b. Nov. 15, 1870, was a student. He studied the ‘McGuffy Reader’ and the ‘Blue Back Spellers’. MUD FLAT may have been another name for COLEMAN SCHOOL but no verification can…
Condensed from “Annals of Rutherford County., Volume I” by John Spence In 1991, the Rutherford County Historical Society published three books developed from the various diaries of lifelong Murfreesboro resident John Cedric Spence. The reader will notice errors in spelling and sentence structure. However, the Rutherford County Historical Society felt…
May 11, 2020, May/June Froe Chips, Researched by Debbie Lillard and Barry Lamb and written by Barry Lamb The house was decorated with holly and winter berries…the lights from lamps and candles flashed on the uniforms and the trappings of the officers, and were reflected in the bright eyes of the pretty…
May 8, 2020, Greg Tucker, Rutherford County Historian Congratulations to RCHS Secretary Bonnie Black! Her home at 513 North Maney Avenue, Murfreesboro, is the first historic property approved under the new Rutherford County Historic Properties Tax Abatement program. The Maney Avenue home, known as the Fulghum-Nuell House, is in one…
May 8, 2020, A Series by Barry Lamb Murfree, Dr. James Brickell was born in Murfreesboro on September 16, 1835. He graduated from Union University in 1854 and was soon after engaged in mercantile pursuits in Murfreesboro. He left Murfreesboro for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1857 to attend Jefferson Medical College…
BLACK GNAT ACADEMY 1850-1881 was about four miles west of Murfreesboro on the Franklin Road. The school was on the west bank of Overall Creek, two hundred or three hundred yards north of the bridge. The site is shown on the Beers Map of 1878. Col. James Moore King, son…
SILVER SPRING SCHOOL BLACK 1891-1959 was on the east side of Florence Road which runs north of the Nashville Highway. The site was near the river, just south of the intersection of Wade Herrod Road. It was next to achurch. On August 28, 1891, a deed for one and one-half…