Readyville home to receive historical marker
Michelle Willard, The Murfreesboro Post, January 3, 2013 At its winter marking, the Rutherford County Chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities will place a marker Sunday, Jan. 6, at the “The Corners,” in Readyville. The marking will be followed from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. by…
Gravel Hill School, 1870s-1895
GRAVEL HILL 1870’s-1895 was between Rock Spring and Midland on Midland Dirt Road, the old stage route from Murfreesboro to Shelbyville. It joined the Will Holden place in the 14th District and was about 1/2 mile north of Midland on the east side of the road. The name W. N.…
Part 2: Battle of Murfreesboro
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Shirley Farris Jones, Special to the Post, December 30, 2012 The Confederates soldiers were gone – many of whom would never see their homes and families again. Murfreesboro was forever changed and with the new year a new era had begun for our town…
Part 1: Battle of Murfreesboro
As published in the Murfreesboro Post, Shirley Farris Jones, Special to the Post, December 27, 2012 Part one in a three-part series on the Battle of Stones River and its aftermath. Whether you’re engaged directly in hand-to-hand combat or dealing with the hardships of indirect warfare, the fight for survival…
Author pens electrifying children’s book
Ken Beck, The Murfreesboro Post, December 20, 2012 Woodbury’s Connie Foster took a small chapter from her father’s youth and put an optimistic spin to it to produce a fictional children’s book surrounding the 200-year-old Readyville Mill. Titled “The Readyville Mill,” the 34-page book, illustrated by Carl Carbonell of historic…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
December 18, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman…
Program commemorates Battle of Stones River
The Murfreesboro Post, December 14, 2012 Stones River National Battlefield park rangers and volunteers will present a variety of programs to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Stones River. From Dec. 31, 1862, to Jan. 2, 1863, more than 81,000 soldiers struggled for control of Middle Tennessee in…
Remembering Rutherford: Edwards’ escape comes to a thorny end
Greg Tucker, The Daily News Journal, December 9, 2012 No longer master of his own fate in May 1948, and scheduled to die in the Georgia electric chair on June 4, Rutherford County native Spence Edwards could only sit in his Georgia Penitentiary cell and wait. Spence was convicted of…
Lady Raiders reflect on impact of Title IX
David Hunter, The Murfreesboro Post, December 9, 2012 While the Lady Raider athletic program has enjoyed recent success winning several conference titles and advancing to the NCAA tournament in all sports, the former players who helped pave the way were honored at halftime Thursday during the game against Xavier. Former…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
December 4, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman…
Faith drives passion for higher education
Ralph Vaughn, The Murfreesboro Post, December 2, 2012 Dennis and Ralph Tramel, of Murfreesboro, have fond memories of their father who was a longtime Methodist minister. Being a man of the cloth, Ernest McKinley Tramel took his calling seriously and accepted the fact that moving regularly was all part of…
Sweet dreams of Ole Taylor’s Candy Kitchen
Ken Beck, The Murfreesboro Post, December 2, 2012 For 35 years, 68-year-old Eddy Taylor nurtured the biggest sweet tooth in Rutherford County – his own. Across four decades, however, there were thousands who showed up at his family’s candy shop to soothe their sugar fixes. They did not go away…
Community loses two important residents
Dan Whittle, The Murfreesboro Post, December 2, 2012 Murfreesboro, Middle Tennessee State University and Rutherford County lost two irreplaceable achievers a few weeks back, with their robust and unique public service personalities. Murfreesboro residents Ewing “Tommy” Smith Jr. and Harry “Trader” Horne left their world a better place than they…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
November 30, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with Kent Syler and Jim Williams of the Albert Gore, Sr. Research Center. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS…
Months leading up to historic battle offered brief joy
Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, November 25, 2012 As Thanksgiving Day approached and the good folks of Murfreesboro began their preparations, they had much to celebrate and more to be thankful for than they might have imagined just a few months prior. Deep down, most Confederate sympathizers knew their…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
November 10, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with Rutherford County Historian Greg Tucker. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
November 15, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with local historian Shirley Farris Jones. Bart Walker and the staff of Rutherford County’s WGNS Radio (1450AM, 101.9FM) have been supporters of our local history for a long, long time. Please click the WGNS icon and enjoy former Rutherford County Truman…
Grantlands
Middle Tennessee State University, Spring 2011 Explorations in Public History Class In the dawning years of the 1800s, the Murfree family built Grantlands, a beautiful antebellum mansion and estate on over 1,000 acres of land in Rutherford County, Tennessee. By 1863, the plantation was in ruins, the house was destroyed, and the area was…
Our Beginnings
As published by the Murfreesboro Post, Michelle Willard, Sunday, November 13, 2012 If there’s one thing organizers of Murfreesboro’s Bicentennial Celebration want the public to remember, it’s the importance of history. This month’s schedule includes three events that mark the beginnings of three important aspects of Murfreesboro’s history – its first…
Memories of Cotton Days a reminder of simpler times
Gloria Shacklett Christy, The Murfreesboro Post, November 10, 2012 A morning fog lifted leaving billowing white clouds and a soft blue sky – a simply breathtaking view above the grand columns of the Rutherford County Courthouse. As falling leaves rustled and scampered across the lawn leaving a blanket of crimson…