12,750 Students Due to Enroll
Gen, Jimmy Doolittle at Sky Harbor, 1931
115 Front Street, Smyrna, Tennessee
Sky Harbor Airport Pamphlet
Blaze Destroys Bucket Factory
October 30, 1942, Daily News Journal Plant operated here since 1869, Razed in half an hour; Damage Not Estimated Murfreesboro’s red cedar bucket factory, which has brought the city world-wide renown, was only a heap of ashes and charred remains yesterday, but John Patterson, one of the owning family, said…
1988 Rutherford County Square Renovation
July 4, 1975 Bicentennial
William Roberts of the Coleman Scouts
January 13, 2022, research by Carol Robertson White William Roberts enlisted in the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in Hayes Blackman’s Company of McCann’s Gunners in 1861. Roberts soon became a Coleman Scout under Captain Henry Shaw of Smyrna. His main duty was to follow enemy movement and interrupt communications, operating in…
Photos from the Alvin C. York Medical Center Collection – And Construction Begins, 1939
Stories from the Stones River National Battlefield look back at wartime 159 years ago
Westview Kids, March 18, 1938
The Harding House
July 4, 1975 Bicentennial Program
Campus School PTA Program
February 15, 1952, The Rutherford Courier Present day Campus School, located at 923 East Lytle Street (Murfreesboro), across from Middle Tennessee State University, was known as The Training School for many decades.
Local Historian Joy Hord’s passing
Sky Harbor made Aviation History
November 24, 2002, Dan Whittle, The Daily News Journal Before there was a Nashville International Airport and historic Sewart Air Force Base in Smyrna, there was Tennessee’s Sky Harbor on the Old Nashville Hwy. Today boats are manufactured at the site between Murfreesboro and Smyrna. In fact, before there was…
RCHS Publication No. 15, 1980 (Summer)
African Americans Benevolent Cemetery Historical Marker Unveiling
December 9, 2021, Murfreesboro City TV Channel 3 The Benevolent Cemetery located off Church Street was covered in brush and broken headstones. Hundreds are buried there including members of the famed Buffalo Soldiers, a black cavalry regiment that fought in various battles including the Spanish-American War. Plans are underway to…
Rotary Club of Murfreesboro Veterans’ Round Table
November 23, 2021, Carriage Lane Reception House Tuesday, November 23, 2021, was a special day at the Rotary Club of Murfreesboro (aka Noon Rotary) – 2021 Rotarian of the Year Brett Garner interviewed U.S Navy veterans Phil Barnett (service date (1973-2004), World War II Navy vet George Pope (1943-1946) and…