Subdivision development claims Loyd Haven Farm home
Erin Edgemon, The Daily News Journal, July 14, 2006 A Lascassas mansion that served host to countless parties and charity events for decades was demolished Friday. Developer David Waldron, of Waldron Enterprises, said his company hadn’t finalized plans to tear down the 171-year-old home in an interview early this week. His…
Historians huddle on old homes: Loyd Haven Farm mansion, McCulloch House in danger
Erin Edgemon, Daily News Journal, July 3, 2006 Some local preservationists and Civil War enthusiasts are calling out an SOS. They are banding together to try to “save our (historic) sites,” a slogan thought up by Shirley Jones, a lifelong Murfreesboro resident concerned about historic preservation. Members of the Friends of…
Hiram Jenkins House – Demolished…
From: the Tennessee Preservation Trust Since 1853, this handsome two-story Greek Revival house has stood firm – surviving a war that came to its front door and passing through successive decades of more peaceful changes. But recently, the march of ‘progress’ has brought a new interstate interchange very near to…
Historic Jenkins home demolished
Erin Edgemon, The Daily News Journal, June 13, 2006 Civil War-era enthusiasts and others fighting to preserve a historic house on Gresham Lane were saddened to learn the 153-year-old structure was demolished Saturday. “It is truly a loss for the city of Murfreesboro and for the state,” said Kay Morrow, of Spike…
Jenkins home among most endangered
Erin Edgemon, The Murfreesboro Post, May 22, 2006 Murfreesboro’s Hiram Jenkins House is listed as one of the most endangered historic places in the state by the Tennessee Preservation Trust. The non-profit historic preservation organization included the house at 1556 Gresham Lane on its annual “Ten in Tennessee Endangered List” for the…
Legacy of Stones River: Occupation and the Home Front in Tennessee Symposium
The Legacy of Stones River: Occupation and the Home Front in Tennessee, A Symposium in Murfreesboro, TN October 22, 2005 Summaries of Speakers’ Presentations Jim Lewis “Showing Their Ill Nature: The Military Occupation of Murfreesboro, 1863-1865” Mr. Lewis focused on the changing nature of the Union’s occupation of Murfreesboro during the Civil War,…
A Story of Cherry Shade, LaVergne, Tennessee
Written by James L. Chrisman for the Rutherford County Historical Society publication no. 16, Winter, 1981 All of us who love to refresh and enlighten our minds by breaking away from the cares and tensions of the day, and glance back over the pages setting forth the history of the trials…
Cherry Shade was a Hospital
The following is from ‘Hearthstones, the story of historic Rutherford County Homes’, by Mary B. Hughes, 1942. The long train of wagons bearing supplies for the Federal army moved down the Nashville turnpike toward the little village of LaVergne. Now and then the steady crunching of the wheels rolling…
Fair Memories
August 30, 2004, Doug Davis, The Daily News Journal Rutherford’s agricultural events remembered fondly, but lack of money, interest ended them Rutherford County once held weeklong agricultural fairs and some would like to see them return, but many feel the obstacles and competition would be too great. Some of those…
Feeling the Power of Percy Priest
Doug Davis, The Rutherford Courier, April 22, 2004 Area gave up 16,500 acres for fed project J. Percy Priest Lake offers bountiful recreational opportunities for residents of Rutherford County and visitors to the area. “The total visits to the lake in 2003, including areas managed by concessionaires or the state…
Fire Destroys Marymont Mansion
Lisa Marchesoni, the Daily News Journal, January 21, 2004 A Tuesday fire destroyed the two-story antebellum home, Marymont, constructed in the 1800s on Rucker Lane, sheriff’s deputies said. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places. Van West, director of the Center for Historic Preservation, said Marymont was…
Local doctor, reenactor starts Civil War round table
The Daily News Journal, August 17, 2003 On a trip to Ohio several years ago, Dr. George Smith of Murfreesboro learned a valuable history lesson. “I learned that Murfreesboro had two black regiments, the 13th and the 17th, during the Civil War.” Says Smith, who was recently elected president of…