WGNS Radio, Murfreesboro, TN, April 20, 2018 This WWII Veteran has a rugged exterior standing about 6 feet tall with grit in his face that says tread lightly. The 89 year old U.S. Marine who now calls Murfreesboro, TN home has worked at the top secret Area 51 base, controlled…
CRESCENT SCHOOL 1922-1937 was on the west side of the Barfield-Crescent Road and about 1/2 mile north of the intersection of this road and Armstrong Valley Road. It was north of the Crescent Church of Christ. On November 11, 1922, Sam J. Overall and wife Dossie Pearl acknowledged a deed…
Susan Harber, The Dail y News Journal, April 16, 2018 Grantlands was a spectacular ancestral home that lay on a vast estate, only to be burned to the ground during the ravages of the Civil War. The bygone home is enshrined in rich history. Grantlands property was established in 1807…
This pic recently arrives at the historic Ransom School House, 717 North Academy Street. Many Rutherford Countians served in World War I, 45 never returned home…
Daily News Journal, May, 2, 1968 Since early voting has begun, I decided to re-post this article from the May 2, 1968 Daily News Journal.
LA VERGNE SCHOOL c1911-1949 was on the old Nashville Turnpike, on the same land given by James M. Cowley and wife Mary A. for a school in 1877. At first a one-room frame building, rooms were added until there were three and the schoolhouse was L-shaped. By 1925 it had…
April 3, Nancy De Gennaro, The Daily News Journal Poison Ratenstein is in town for a killer concert, but his fans may be looking for a refund after this twisted tour turns tragic with a murder at the mansion and a mystery tosolve. You can help solve the mystery when Oaklands…
April 2, 2018, The Daily News Journal, Susan Harber I am so fascinated by our county jail system and the exceptional inner workings of our local law enforcement. My Uncle Leon Fox labored as a deputy (1959-1961) in a Murfreesboro jail under Sheriff Bill Wilson. I remember later visiting my…
The Murfreesboro Post, April 2, 2018 Willie McGowan was remembered at a banquet in his honor, Saturday, March 24, as supporters of Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center gathered at the museum to celebrate 100 years of African-American education. In addition to celebrating the work and memory of McGowan, the…
Frank Caperton, Rutherford County Historical Society First Presbyterian Church held an Easter service in the streets on the corner of North Spring and East College at some point in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The three story building in the upper left hand corner of this pic is the…