September 5, 2019, Scott Broden, The Daily News Journal LA VERGNE — Former Mayor A.C. Puckett, a founder for the La Vergne government, died Wednesday, the city reported. He was 94. “His impact on the city is huge, being one of our city’s founding fathers,” Mayor Jason Cole said in the news…
W. H. Wallace, 1869. He-contributed to the first report made by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Report 1869Nearly all of the teachers have received a part of their salary from the people . . . . Schools of some kind have been established in every district ofthe county. George…
September 1, 2019, A Series by Barry Lamb Carney, Legrand Hargis was born on January 1, 1808 in Person County, North Carolina to William and Mary Hargis Carney, who came to Rutherford County from Person County before 1809. He was married to Catherine Wells Lytle, daughter of Captain William Lytle…
August 24, Holloway High School, Murfreesboro, TN Saturday saw a crowd of more than 200 celebrate the old Holloway High School. Holloway High School, aka, ‘The School on the Hill’, was so much more than a school. Holloway was a place of empowerment for the African American community.
OREGON SCHOOL 1860’s-1900 was a Wilson-Rutherford County line school with both teachers and students from the two counties. It was about two and one half miles east of the old Cainesville tollgate and on the old Rhodes farm later owned by R. L. Howard. The schoolhouse was a log building.…
August 28, 2019, Daily News Journal, Scott Broden Developers obtained a $6 million property tax break agreement Wednesday to help fund a public parking garage as part of the mixed-use redevelopment of a historic downtown Murfreesboro church. “We are extremely excited about this project,” said Brian Davis, president and chief…
August 23, 2019, The Murfreesboro Post, Jason Reynolds Emily Ruth Dill received quite a surprise – and a trip down memory lane – when a gravestone bearing her great-grandfather’s name turned up on Broad Street, at least 15 miles from where he is buried at Milton Cemetery. A motorist hit…
July 16, 1982, The Daily News Journal Larry sims looking fine in this 1982 Daily News Journal photo. You never know what – or who – we will come across when we research a topic.
August 19, 2019, Rutherford County Archive More than 110 attendees enjoyed the narrative of Jack Hinson of Civil War fame Monday night at the Rutherford County Archive Building, 435 Rice Street, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Judge Ben Hall McFarlin shared how Jack Hinson of Dover, Tennessee was never a man with whom…
FATE LAMB CORNER SCHOOL 1878-1888 was located at the second bend of the road 1/2 mile north of the Haynes graveyard on a corner of the Lamb farm where a road known as the Jeff Holden Cave Road led to the right. The site of the school and the names…