Rutherford County History in the News:
Arnette Family hands over Keys to Ransom School
(8/19/2011, DNJ)
Thanks to the generosity of the heirs of late author and
Murfreesboro historian C.B. Arnette, the Rutherford County
Historical Society has a new home.
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Group Unveils Bradley Marker
Local history
lovers enjoyed a quick unveiling of the new historical marker at
Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center
on Saturday before heading inside to the air conditioning.
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Family
Business Spans 60 Years
Exactly where was Loafers Rest? How about asking the
family who is still running the local grocery store. The
Taylor family will know where is was, since the fourth
generation is now taking his position to carry on.
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Historical Signs detail County's Rich Heritage
MURFREESBORO — Interpretive signs being posted this week
around the Rutherford County Courthouse do more than give
bits of information about the Public Square predating the
Civil War, county grant coordinator Faye Elam says.
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Historic Farm Venue for The Summer Party
MURFREESBORO — From the second-floor picture window of the
historic Tarpley
home in Walter Hill, Bev MacSherry looked out toward West
Jefferson Pike and said, "Can't you just see those Civil War
soldiers, battered and weary, trudging that path?"
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Searching for the Past
Rutherford County's Archivist John Lodl pushed through the
underbrush on a warm winter's morning to discover a
long-lost gravestone staring back at him slightly cock eyed.
The stone is
part of an equally long-lost cemetery hidden in a cedar
glade off Manchester Highway near the now defunct town of
Carlocksville, which is
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Scales Elementary 5th Graders Give Oaklands Museum $866.69
The Oaklands Historic House Museum educational programs
received a generous donation from 150 fifth grader students
at Scales Elementary School. The school’s “Step Up and
Serve” fundraiser donated 10 per cent of the classes’ money
to Oaklands. That translates into $866.69 for such popular
educational programs as “Days of Washing, Churning, and
Learning” on May 12 & 13 to school children across middle
Tennessee.
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New
Book Preserves County's Stories
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Proceeds go to Discovery Center
Rutherford Countians will have an opportunity to revisit
history, or take the tour for the first time, with the
publishing of The Daily News Journal columnist Greg Tucker's
first volume of "Remembering Rutherford."
Rutherford County Mayor Ernest Burgess purchased not just the
first copy of the newly-published paperback from Discovery
Center Executive
Director
Billie Little, but nine more copies shortly after its recent
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A Window to the Past
The
Rutherford County Archives holds the community's history through
the preservation of county government records that enable people
to do everything from legal work to genealogy research.
Located
on Rice Street off West Burton near the Murfreesboro Athletic
Club, the facility sees about 15 walk-in visitors each day, in
addition to phone and e-mail requests, but often the searches
for information are time-consuming and that number increases as
more people find out about the facility.
Director
John Lodl sat down with The Daily News Journal to talk about the
facility's mission and projects since it opened three and a half
years ago.
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Historic Sanders Farm Saved by Trust
The Land
Trust for Tennessee announced that landowner Patricia ‘Pat’
Sanders has conserved 331 acres of farmland through a permanent
conservation agreement with the statewide nonprofit land
conservation organization.
The farm, located on Armstrong Valley Road, is a Tennessee
Century Farm and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Pat and her late husband, Robert ‘Bob’ Smith Sanders, moved to
the farm in 1963 and raised their two children in the 1869
farmhouse, built by Bob’s maternal grandparents, that still
stands today.
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Hundreds of adventures await visitors
on the multi-state Civil War Trails
program which now includes Tennessee and more specifically,
Rutherford County. Nine signs were installed in the county
in October and a tenth will be located at the new Chamber of
Commerce building.
Civil War Trails creates
driving tours of Civil War sites, focusing on the untold stories
as well as the famous events, characters and places of the war,
and connects them together throughout the state.
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APTA
Historic Marker Placed
on Porterfield Community Farm Added:
Approximately thirty
members of APTA, family,
and friends gathered at the Alexander-Ready-Cates Farm at
Porterfield on Sunday, October 18th, for the unveiling of the
APTA (Association for the Preservation for Tennessee
Antiquities) marker.
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Susan
G. Daniel was into genealogical research
before it was cool. That desire to delve into the past fueled
the writing, compilation and editing of numerous books, work
that required years of tedious investigation.
Daniel’s efforts have been recognized on the local and state
level while also leading to establishment of a Rutherford County
Archives. Most recently, she and Frank Caperton, members of the
Rutherford County Historical Society, completed a book,
“Pictures and the Stories They Tell,” a compilation of some 800
Rutherford County pictures.
Daniel sat down with The DNJ to discuss her efforts to preserve
and record history.
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Rutherford
County Courthouse, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Built 1859.