White-Gregory-Posey Home looms large in local history

Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, December 18, 2017 The White-Gregory-Posey Home on Nashville Highway near Old Smyrna Lane was one of the oldest and most historical houses in Rutherford County. The home was built by Henry White in 1817 as a tavern.  The original structure was comprised of yellow…

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Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker talks of December 1946

Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker gives a brief ‘history lesson’ each month at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) City Council meeting. Movies were closed on Sundays in 1946.  That is till the returning vets convinced the Princess and the Roxy otherwise. Young & Ogles Lumber Yard, Ransom Cotton Gin and Murfreesboro Electric…

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Simmons School, (Eagleville), 1884-1914

SIMMONS SCHOOL 1884-1914 was located four or five miles north of Eagleville on Rocky Glade Road. Bill Simmons gave the land on which the school was built. The schoolhouse was a small, one-room, weatherboarded building. It had one door at the front and wIndows at each side. The first teacher…

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A visit to Murfreesboro’s Cannonsburgh Village

Frank Caperton, Rutherford County Historical Society, November 25, 2017 There are plenty of photos of Murfreesboro’s Cannonsburgh Village on the Internet.  This time I spent a couple of hours with Bobby Turman of Cannonsburgh in the Cannonsburgh gift shop.

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Lively home featured in tour

Nancy De Gennaro, The Daily News Journal, November 25, 2017 One of the stops on the Oaklands Candlelight Tour of Homes, which is set for 4-8 p.m. Dec. 2, used to be a hub of social activity during the 1900s. Now owned by Dr. Greg Nicholson, the home at 746…

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