NOLEN SCHOOL before 1900-c 1923 was on the Will Nolen farm on the east side of Compton Road and about two miles south of its intersection with the Lascassas Road. Its site is marked on the Dixie Highway Map. The one-room school was a weatherboarded building. Teachers were Alice Craddock,…
LASCASSAS SCHOOL 1889-1927 was on the north side of the Lascassas-Milton Road. It was on land donated for “The building of a school” where a free school would be conducted in the fall and a tuition fee charged for a shorter spring term. The site was the one on which…
July 27, 2019, Ransom School House Who remembers Rowland Services Station once located at 200 South Maney Street, which was also the long time location of Maney Avenue Texaco, later Maney Avenue Phillip’s 66?
WALTER HILL ACADEMY 1870-1924, now referred to as the OLD WALTER HILL SCHOOL, was on the Lebanon Road and about one-eighth mile north of Stone’s River. The land was given by Dr. T. C. Black. Both the site of the school and the name T. C. Black are on the…
LAWRENCE CHAPEL SCHOOL BLACK 1898-1936, was located between Salem and Windrow. It was on the north side of Windrow Road just before Windrow Hill and behind the John Haynes’ house. It was in the vicinity of LEATHERS SCHOOL. On August 17, 1898, W. T. Haynes and wife N. A. deeded…
Wendi Watts, the Daily News Journal, February 22, 1995 Black education changed through the years in Rutherford County Black Education in Rutherford County has gone through a lot of changes in the past 50 years. In the 1930s and 1940s, Thelma Marie Turrentine Marshall went to class in a one-room…
July 23, 2019, Bill Jakes From Bill Jakes: “I was given this wonderful photo by a cousin today. It was supposedly taken shortly after a family member’s funeral so it is believed to be from April of 1947. The preacher who performed these creek baptisms was Woodrow Medlock.”
CEDAR HILL SCHOOL 1880’s-c 1920 was about 12 miles east of Murfreesboro on the Bradyville Road. It was about .25 mile east of Donnell’s Chapel store, up a hill on the north side of the road. In 1890, County Superintendent James P. Nelson said, “We have some of the best…
July 13, 2019, Oaklands Mansion, Murfreesboro, Tennessee The time was 0400, 13 July, 1862. The place was the Maney Plantation, north of the sleepy town of Murfreesborough, Tennessee. Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest used surprise, daring and military genius to surprise and defeated the 9th Michigan in the shadow of Oaklands…
July 9, 2019, Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Voice Marymont Mansion may be getting a new lease on life. Local couple Jeff and Sherri Brown want to turn the historic house into Black Crow Wine Bar. Built in the 1860s, the antebellum home has slipped through many fingers and into decline…