Published by the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, March 2004 Lisa Pruitt, former director of the MTSU Gore Center received a set of photos from a couple living in Colorado in 2003. The identity of the photographer is unknown yet the photos are thought to be the oldest photos of…
Scott Broden, The Daily News Journal, September 23, 2017 Rutherford County Commissioners will decide whether to sell or renovate three buildings on the outer side of Murfreesboro’s historic downtown Square. “We have the potential to make it more vibrant with businesses, restaurants, shops,” Commissioner Mike Kusch said during a Thursday…
City of Murfreesboro, September 22, 2017 In September 1973, Murfreesboro built a new police station. The Rutherford County Historical Society placed a wooden box time capsule into the rear stairwell. RCHS president Frank Caperton had the honor to open the time capsule.
Mariah Timms, The Daily News Journal, September 22, 2017 Buried for 44 years, a treasure frozen in time behind the walls of the Murfreesboro Police Department taunted, tantalized and teased those who walked through a stairwell on the first floor. The department is only weeks away from moving into a new…
Scott Broden, Daily News Journal, September 19, 2017 Crews are demolishing 17 of the former Franklin Heights public housing buildings to clear room for the Doug Young Public Safety Training Center, an official said. “Five of the buildings will be kept,” Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Chief Mark Foulks said Tuesday. “Those five have…
September 12, 2017, The McFadden School of Excellence McFadden School is the first school named for a woman in Rutherford County. In the early 1920s, Miss Elvie McFadden was a servant to the impoverished community of Westvue. Working as a social worker, she dedicated her life to serving needy children…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, September 11, 2017 The Collier-Lane-Crichlow House on North Spring Street and Bell Street was the residence to four Murfreesboro mayors, including Ingram Collier, Newton B. Collier, James H. Crichlow Jr. and N. Collier Crichlow. The home was placed on the National Historic Places in…
Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal, September 7, 2017 Beloved environmental advocate Bertha Chrietzberg of Murfreesboro has died. She was 97. Chrietzberg was instrumental in preserving some of what are now considered Rutherford County’s most popular natural resources, including the Stones River Greenway System. The analogy of planting seeds is a…
Murfreesboro City Television, September 6, 2017 Host John Hood interviews county historian Greg Tucker.
April 30, 1939, Mary B. Fox, The Daily News Journal Ancient Timbers find new use in Fred Rogers Home Out of the morticed and pegged timbers of a tumble-down, 100-year-old house is emerging the modern, new farm home of Mr. & Mrs. Fred Rogers on the Bradyville Pike. Mr. Rogers,…