Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
August 28, 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…
If These Walls Could Talk
MURFREESBORO, DNJ, 8/26//2012 — Maintaining a 165-year-old home is far from easy and not a cheap endeavor. “We’re on the 22nd year of our five-year renovation plan,” jokes Kae Allen, who shares the blue and pink-trimmed Victorian cottage near the corner of Maney Avenue and East Main Street with her…
Lake part of Todd plan to attract VA
As published by the Daily News Journal, Greg Tucker, Sunday, August 26, 2012 A shrewd attorney, businessman and politician, Andrew Lee Todd established his fortune and reputation in the years preceding World War I. Over the next two decades, he profited from every venture, except for two notable failures. From…
Cannonsburgh Village
Murfreesboro City Television, August 20, 2012 Historic Cannonsburgh Village is located at 312 S. Front St. (behind Sticks and Stuff on Broad Street). The village is open May 1 through Dec. 1, Tuesday through Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sundays from 1 until 4 p.m. The…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
August 14, 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…
Developer manipulated Normal school site
As published by the Daily News Journal, Greg Tucker, Sunday, August 12, 2012 Andrew Lee Todd (1872-1945) put Middle Tennessee Normal (now Middle Tennessee State University) on the east side of Murfreesboro and put himself in the middle of the resulting development. Todd was born and raised on a modest…
Murfreesboro City Hall celebrates history
The Murfreesboro Post, August 5, 2012 The Murfreesboro City Hall Art Committee announced the opening of the exhibit: “Our Stories – Mapping the Growth of Murfreesboro – Historical Maps and Murfreesboro: Through the Artist’s Eye.” Sponsored in cooperation with the Bicentennial Our Stories Committee the exhibition features a collection of…
Mid-Tenn Connection to the London Games: Tommy Haynes
July 27, 2012, Mike Osborne, WMOT Radio MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (HUBBARD) — The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Games are set for Friday evening. WMOT News has discovered a surprising number of Mid-State connections to the games. Tommy Haynes was a three-time All American under Middle Tennessee State track coach…
Southern matriarch cared for sacred trust
Shirley Farris Jones, The Murfreesboro Post, July 29, 2012 In mid-19 century Murfreesboro, the name “Dromgoole” was both well known and respected among the citizens of our town. John Easter Dromgoole had served as city alderman and treasurer in 1860 and 186l and was serving as mayor in 1862 when…
War had winners, losers, seducers and hardtack
As published by the Daily News Journal, Greg Tucker, July 19, 2012 One hundred and fifty years ago today the citizens of Murfreesboro were celebrating their deliverance from Yankee occupation. Their hero was Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In an early morning raid on July 13, 1862, Forrest and his…
House finds a new home
Greg Campbell, The Daily News Journal, May 22, 1983 Time, weather and vandals were taking a toll on a stately house on East Main Street, most often called the ‘old Elrod House.’ After developers bought the 1.5 acre site at 926 East Main Street, the house itself was given to…
Murfreesboro Storytellers “Our Stories”, August 2012
Murfreesboro City Television, July 20, 2012 On this month’s episode of Murfreesboro Storytellers, we focus on “Our Stories” with Dan Whittle, John Lodl, and Elma McKnight.
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
July 18, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with personnel from the Stones River National Battlefield and Oaklands Mansion. 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…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
July 17, 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…
Black Confederate in General Forrest’s Raid
Jonathan Fagan, The Murfreesboro Post, July 12, 2012 As Confederate cavalry re-enactors thunder down East Main street Saturday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s successful raid on the Rutherford County Courthouse, spectators may see an elderly black gentleman in the crowd wearing a confederate flag necktie, looking…
Battlefield offers ‘Hallowed Ground’
Jonothan Fagan, The Murfreesboro Post, July 11, 2012 Superintendent Stuart Johnson announced Stones River National Battlefield will offer five more presentations of Hallowed Ground: A Lantern Tour of Stones River National Cemetery during 2011. Each scheduled evening, two tours of up to 35 people will tour the cemetery by lantern…
History comes alive
Tessa Resko, the Murfreesboro Post, July 8, 2012 On July 13, 1862, U.S. Col. William Duffield and the 9th Michigan Infantry Division were camped on Oaklands’ front lawn near the Maneys’ Spring. In a surprise attack, Confederate Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men snuck up on the regiment. The…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
July 6, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with former Rutherford County Historian Ernie Johns. 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…
Local History with Truman Jones and Friends
July 6, 2012, WGNS Radio Today Truman Jones visits with former Rutherford County Historian Ernie Johns. 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…
1975 4th of July Celebration in Murfreesboro
The following pics were taken by Helene Colvin and Bealer Smother at the celebrations around Murfreesboro, Tennessee, July 4, 1975. See anyone you recognize?