TO: Murfreesboro City Board of EducationFROM: John Hodge JonesDATE: March 5, 1990RE: A Review of School and School System Organization—A Personal Statement Reflecting Upon the Past, Present, and Future INTRODUCTIONChanges are rapidly taking place in Rutherford County and Murfreesboro’s education institutions. The history of where we are is relatively young…
March 26, 2020, Jason Reynolds The Murfreesboro Post First United Methodist Church is celebrating its bicentennial throughout this year, with activities including tours at its original downtown sites and the Windrow Campground, where a revival once broke out in Rutherford County. “Two-hundred years is an extremely significant moment in the…
March 26, 2020, from the Digital Archives of the Rutherford County Historical Society The Ransom School House has been beautiful restored and maintained since this photo was taken c1976, most likely by Dr. Bealer Smotherman, longtime professor at Middle Tennessee State University and local historian. Bealer was alo an avid…
TENNESSEE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 1907-1946 was located on the north side of East Main Street in Murfreesboro. In October 1905, an Educational Commission was appointed by the Baptist State Convention of Tennessee with instructions to seek a location and establish a college for women. Murfreesboro, with a population of 6,000,…
March 23, 2020, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal Standby….and Action! WGNS Radio has 72 years of deep and time-honored history in Murfreesboro. There were 10,000 residents in the city when the station signed on the air on New Year’s Eve of 1946. At the time, there were no local…
March 16, Oaklands Mansion Wow – what to say about the 2019 edition of the annual RCHS Show & Tell. More than fifty local history enthusiasts enjoyed a meal provided by Carriage Lane Reception House on the grounds of the historic Oaklands Mansion.
March 20, 2020 The Murfreesboro Sun was a wonderful weekly newspaper in Murfreesboro, Tennessee from c1994 till 2004. WHRT Channel 27, owned by Landmark Arts, began airing April 30, 1997.
TAYLOR SCHOOL 1874-1911 was a district school on the north side of Columbia Road, now Mt. Pleasant Road, about one half mile west of the intersection of that road and Hant Hollow Road. On August 4, 1874, Nathaniel R. Taylor, son of Vincent Taylor, signed a gift deed to the…
March 12, 2020, WGNS Radio Steve Peterson, the all-time winningest coach in Middle Tennessee baseball history, has passed away. Peterson, 68, died at St. Thomas Hospital Wednesday night after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week. A family spokesperson indicated there will be a private funeral ceremony for family…
March 9, 2020, WGNS Radio From www.wgnsradio.com: (MURFREESBORO) Around 150 residents were at Monday (3/9/2020) night’s Town Hall Meeting to learn more about the massive downtown project where the Methodist church once was located. The meeting was held across the street in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church. The development…