Nancy De Gennaro, The Daily News Journal, October 13, 2017 A year after moving into their renovated home in downtown Murfreesboro, Blake and Priscilla Smith will open the doors for “An Evening on Main.” Set for 5-7 p.m. at 446 E. Main St., the fundraiser benefits Main Street Murfreesboro, a…
You know, we come across some fun and interesting items at the Rutherford County Historical Society. Everyday reminds me Christmas. We opened a time capsule from September 27, 1973 at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) Police Department this past September (September 22, 2017). We since have digitized a two-foot thick stack newspapers…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, November 6, 2017 Brown’s Chapel Church is a diamond that sparkled in our county for more than 80 years. The original church for Blackman Methodists was built in 1876 and named Brown’s Chapel to honor its first minister, Allison Brown. Brown’s Chapel Road also…
Scott Broden, The Daily News Journal, November 3, 2017 The Murfreesboro City Council ranked Nashville’s Gulch developer and Murfreesboro Investment Group as top applicants of four to redevelop downtown’s historic former First United Methodist Church. “It’s pretty clear the top one and top two,” Mayor Shane McFarland said. The council…
Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker gives a brief ‘history lesson’ each month at the Murfreesboro (Tennessee) City Council meeting. When was Murfreesboro founded? Watch this seven minutes video and learn…
The Daily News Journal, February 1, 1963
From ‘Clinchfield No. 1: Tennessee’s Legendary Steam Engine: “Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker took little for granted. Ten days before the 1972 election, he launched a whistle-stop tour on a ninety-year-old locomotive once used to rescue victims of the Johnston flood. Redubbed the ‘Baker Cannonball’ by Roy Acuff, the ‘Rosebud’ was met…
October 24, 1976, Sherry Hale, The Daily News Journal Do you believe in tales about the supernatural or do you think they are just silly stories conjured up by grandmothers and grandfathers to entertain the children? We may never know for sure if the spooky legends and ghost stories we…
Dan Epright, the Murfreesboro Post, October 24, 2017 Marty Luffman is a character, no two ways about it, and a Smyrna fixture with lots of irons in the fire. At least two of the State Farm Insurance agent’s irons are “shootin’ irons” as he competes in mounted shooting competitions, or at…
October 23, 2017, Frank Caperton, President of the RCHS I received a call from Murfreesboro Police Department about a month ago concerning an upcoming 1973 time capsule opening at the ‘old’ Murfreesboro Police Department once located on South Church Street, near City Hall and the Linebaugh Library. Within this time…