July 14, 2020, July/August Froe Chips, Carol Robertson White, Frow Chips Editor Every now and then we have folks drop by the Rutherford County Historical Society Historic Ransom School House and share a photo or two, ephemera regarding our town, or donate us items to the Rutherford County Historical Society. I had…
June 10, 2020 Rutherford County Historical Society volunteer and photographer Frank Caperton stopped by the venerable and loved Ransom School House, 717 North Academy Street, Murfreesboro, early one October morning in 2018.
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Ivey P. ‘Pap’ Burns (b August 27, 1823) & Son (George Washington Burns) General Store, built 1865. This old fashioned country store was a center of activity in the Everglade Community on Jackson Ridge Road near Rockvale. ‘Pap’ Burns sold items such as hardware, coffee, livestock feed, sugar, etc. G.W.…
BORING SCHOOL 1885-c 1919 was located in District 4 on the west side of the Almaville-Smyrna Road at the intersection of Burnt Knob Road. Sterling Brown Boring and wife Elizabeth on October 10, 1885, sold one-half acre of land to William T. Edwards, Richard K. Spann, and James L. Anderson…
March 26, 2020, from the Digital Archives of the Rutherford County Historical Society The Ransom School House has been beautiful restored and maintained since this photo was taken c1976, most likely by Dr. Bealer Smotherman, longtime professor at Middle Tennessee State University and local historian. Bealer was alo an avid…
March 9, 2020, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal I thoroughly enjoy researching living history as much as ancestral narratives. A favorite athlete is an African-American Olympian from MTSU, who forged everlasting history for the college in 1976. Thomas Zarlef Haynes was born July 14, 1952 in Nashville to parents…
February 21, 2020, Jason Reynolds, The Murfreesboro Post (Photography credit Frank Caperton) On Feb. 10, 1900, President William McKinley was running for a second term and Spanish-American War hero Theodore Roosevelt was only one of several contenders to run as his vice presidential partner. In other news on that date,…
January/February Froe Chips, Researched and written by Barry Lamb A notice in the October 6, 1932 edition of the Daily News Journal piqued the curiosity of this writer. The notice stated that a two story home was constructed during the 1840s by Ed Arnold and was the former home of…
January/February 2020, Froe Chips by Richard Stickney I was raised on the Square. I was just a kid, but that world belonged to me. I knew every alley and every secret that men kept. I knew who went where and why. I remember walking out of the Princess Theater when…