EMERY SCHOOL BLACK 1882-1958 was on the west side of Emery Road which is to the west of Lascassas Road, between Osborne and Compton Roads. The school was in the Emery community and next to the Emery Methodist Church which still holds services as of 1986. On November 11, 1882,…
SCIENCE HILL ACADEMY OF LEARNING c1870-1887, used both as a school and as a church, was built on a hill on Franklin Hall’s farm on the north side of the Woodbury Road. The building replaced a log church which had been located farther from the stage road and had burned.…
January 5, 1986, The Daily News Journal Members of the Smyrna High School Team A were second place finishers in the Tennessee Tech University High School Science Bowl. From left are Chuck Ransom, Mark Chesebro, Jeff MCGill, Joey McDuffe, Walter Castleberry and sponsor Larry Barnickle
June 20, 2018, WGNS Radio The La Vergne Historic Preservation committee is having a celebration of the history of La Vergne for the city’s 46th anniversary. The celebration will be on Saturday (6/23/18) from 11 AM to 3 PM inside the LaVergne City Hall. During the milestone, the city will…
WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, TN, June 19, 2018 Mary Soper was born in 1911 in Wayne County. Mary moved to Rutherford County in 1988. To help put that time period into perspective, William Howard Taft was our U.S. president. This same year Ronald Reagan was born as was Tennessee Williams and…
MR. HUDDLESTON’S SCHOOL, called also “PAP” HUDDLESTON’S SCHOOL c1850-1892, was in the Readyville Community on the old Readyville-Woodbury Turnpike. The 1878 Beers Map shows the name as W. B. Huddleson. The schoolhouse was a one-room, cedar log building and was in the corner of the yard where Mr. Leslie Justice…
Shirley Farris Jones, June 18, 2018 Local historian and author Shirley Farris Jones shares the history of the Rutherford County Courthouse, built in 1859.
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, June 19, 2018 The history of our county reveals few Revolutionary War soldiers returning to live in our midst. Yet one outstanding soldier, Peter Jennings (1752-1842), returned as a contributor to community and friend to all. Jennings was an African-American born in Pequonnock, Connecticut,…
June 18, 2018, Rutherford County Archive Building, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Bill Patterson’s family owned the old Cedar Bucket Factory in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The cedar industry in Rutherford County included buckets, pencils, cedar oil and many other products derived from the red cedar so very common in Rutherford County.
