As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Mike West, Managing Editor, March 2, 2008 Editor’s Note: To put our ongoing coverage of the Civil War in perspective, here is a brief recounting of the Battle of Stones River hitting upon some key points. Why fight at Murfreesboro? Only 2,500 people lived…
December 16, 2007, Mike West, The Murfreesboro Post “Google” the phrase “Confederate hero” on the Internet and you will get thousands of hits with many of them mentioning names like Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. So why does the memory of Confederate scout Sam Davis still endure? Smyrna can…
By Michelle Willard, Murfreesboro Post, October 21, 2007 Four historic Murfreesboro buildings are honored by the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) today. The APTA will place markers outside the East Main Street homes of Matt and Pat Ward, Jim and Marietta Bishop and APTA Rutherford County Chapter…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Erin Edgemon, Business Editor, October 7, 2007 Not all ghosts are out to frighten those who come in contact with them; sometimes they just want to have a little spirited fun. But the spirits who are said to haunt the former Book Rack building…
Lisa Marchesoni, Murfreesboro Post, January 24, 2007 Destruction caused by a powerful tornado looked “like somebody had dropped bombs” throughout the Southridge subdivision 10 years ago. Veteran sheriff’s Lt. Joe Gray said the tornado ripped through his neighborhood Friday, Jan. 24, 1997, destroying homes four blocks away. “It looked like…
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Erin Edgemon, Staff Writer Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:56 pm Historic Jenkins House to be removed from National Register of Historic Places. The review board for the Tennessee Historical Commission voted to remove the demolished Hiram Jenkins House from the National Register of Historic…
Erin Edgemon, The Daily News Journal, July 28, 2006 The Friends of Stones River National Battlefield have halted attempts to purchase the pre-Civil War McCulloch House and save it from demolition. After an assessment completed by the Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU, it was determined that the house — originally…
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…
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…
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…