STANDRIDGE SCHOOL early 1800’s-c 1900 was about .5 mile southwest of the present Cripple Creek Presbyterian Church on the Bradyville Road. The sites of the schoolhouse and the church are still so shown on the 1878 Beers Map. The last school was built two or three hundred feet south of…
Michael Linn White, Murfreesboro City Channel 3, January 24, 2019 Murfreesboro CityTv’s Michael Linn White visits Oaklands Mansion and gets a quick tour of the very popular Wedding Dresses Through the Decades exhibit.
Froe Chips, January/February 2019, by Carol Robertson White There are two Burrus family cemeteries in Rutherford County. One Burrus cemetery is nestled dab smack in the middle of Cherry Lane Acres, with residential homes built all around. The cemetery is guarded by an iron fence and was restored years ago…
Froe Chips, January/February 2019, Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker Before World War II, Homer Huddleston and his wife Effie lived in a rented “shotgun house” in Westvue, the working class neighborhood west of the railroad tracks in Murfreesboro. Their home was on the southwest corner of the Mill and Dosie…
Froe Chips, January/February 2019, Carol White, Editor Two tables made from timbers that once supported the roof of the White House at the time Andrew Jackson was president were given to the Veterans Hospital in 1940. The tables are of colonial design, the pine wood finished, polished and unstained. In…
Rutherford County Historical Society Monthly Meeting, January 21, 2019 Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker shares a few interesting laws from early Murfreesboro…
January 19, 2019, WGNS Radio (MURFREESBORO) Wedding Dresses Through The Decades is now open every day through March 3, 2019 at Oaklands Mansion, 900 N. Maney Avenue. Stories of our community will come to life through wedding gowns on display at Oaklands Mansion, where every dress tells a love story.…
Alvin C. York Hospital Collection, January 16, 2019 The Rutherford County Historical Society acquired thousands of photos from the Alvin C. York Veterans Hospital in December, 2018. Bart Walker of WGNS Radio helped identify Jerry Brown, WGNS Sales Manager Neil Lancaster, Carl Tipton (operating the equipment). We need your help…
Alvin C. York Hospital Collection, January 14, 2019 The Rutherford County Historical Society acquired thousands of photos from the Alvin C. York Veterans Hospital in December, 2018. Bart Walker of WGNS Radio helped identify Jerry Brown and WGNS Sales Manager Neil Lancaster as the two gentlemen on the right. Can…
RUCKER HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLACK 1896-1927 was built on the old Nashville Highway. It was on John Sneed property on a hill southeast of the present Sam Davis Road and near Rocky Fork Road. There is no longer aroad up to the site of the school. The school was a…