The Iconic City Cafe on Tennessee Crossroads
Tennessee Crossroads, City Cafe, April 11, 2019 Tennessee Crossroads recently visited the iconic City Cafe:
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Fox Hollow School, c1900
FOX HOLLOW SCHOOL c1900 was on Fox Hollow Road which runs east off the Manchester Highway. It was on the right fork of the road soon after the road divides and was on the right side of the fork. No exact name is known for the school. Lee Jacobs and…
Baxter Hobgood and Robert Frost are Two Icons in the Literary Spectrum of the County and Nation
April 8, 2019, Susan Harber In early 1940s, on the cusp of World War II, Robert Frost, the greatest poet of the 20th century, arrived to Murfreesboro for a special reading at Middle Tennessee State College on the invitation of President Q.M. Smith. Professor Baxter Hobgood was requested by Smith…
Bill Parks for County Clerk Kan-O-Seat
April 6, 2019, Ransom School House, Murfreesboro, Tennessee You simply never know what local historians such as Curtis Parish will bring when visiting the historic Ransom School House for ‘Coffee & Conversation’ each Saturday morning…
La Vergne School, 1887-1911
LA VERGNE SCHOOL fl. 1887-c 1911 was on the southwest side of the Nashville Turnpike and on the south side of the present Church of Christ. On November 12, 1887, W.A. Goodman sold to the Christian Church a part of the school lot. The frame school building contained one room…
State Farm Insurance Regional Office
Frank Caperton, April 3, 2019 State Farm Insurance has maintained a regional office in Murfreesboro since 1954. This is ‘The Scope’, volume 21, issue 12, dated December 24, 1975:
State Farm Insurance Regional Office
Frank Caperton, April 2, 2019 State Farm Insurance has maintained a regional office in Murfreesboro since 1954. The following is a pamphlet that was distributed by the Data Processing department as a memento at the grand opening of the ‘new’ State Farm regional office location at 2500 Memorial Blvd., October…
Cane Ridge School, 1826-1893
CANE RIDGE SCHOOL 1826-1893? was located on Old Hickory Boulevard about one and one-half miles south of the present I-24/Old Hickory Boulevard intersection. The school was at one time on the same side of the road as the graveyard and the red brick church. Because of a change in the…
Hollandale School 1924-1936
HOLLANDALE SCHOOL 1924-c 1936 was in District 2 in the present Hollandale area of Lavergne. On January 15, 1925, Arnanda McLaughlin, W.N. McLaughlin, and Mrs. G.W. Gooch, Sr., deeded to the Rutherford County Board of Education two acres of land for a common school. It was located on the old…
Sam Davis Home Showcases Lives of Davis Women With Special Exhibit
March 29, 2019, The Rutherford Source Sam Davis Home Executive Director Jenny Lamb began a new chapter in the history of the Sam Davis Home and Plantation by opening the archives for the first time to show what the lives of the Davis women were like in the late nineteenth…