Murfreesboro Storytellers Special: The House Still Standing
“The House Still Standing” documents the local and family history of the Gannaway/Ganaway name.
Burrell Gannaway (1785-1853) was a slaveholder and Rutherford County pioneer who fought in the war of 1812 and served as one of Murfreesboro’s first alderman. King Daniel Ganaway (1884-1944) was a descendant of a slave, owned by Gannaway, who joined the early 1900 Great Migration from the South to Chicago to become a celebrated African American photographer.
Their contrasting stories are told in a CityTV documentary highlighting the work of genealogists who revealed the silenced story of their ancestor while uncovering a local history.
Haunted History of Rutherford County
Greg Tucker presents Haunted History of Rutherford County at the St. Clair Street Senior Center.
Tour of Old Jefferson, September 27, 2014
Old Jefferson was the county seat of Rutherford County, Tennessee from 1803 till 1811 when the county seat was moved to 'Murfreesborough'.
evergreen cemetery murfreesboro tennessee
small look at evergreen cemetery in murfreesboro tennessee
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Murfreesboro is a city in and the county seat of Rutherford County, Tennessee. The population was 108,755 according to the 2010 census, up from 68,816 residents certified during the 2000 census. 2014 census estimates show a population of 120,954. The city is the center of population of Tennessee and is part of the Nashville metropolitan area, which includes thirteen counties and a population of 1,757,912. It is Tennessee's fastest growing major city and one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Murfreesboro is also home to Middle Tennessee State University, the largest undergraduate university in the state of Tennessee, with an undergraduate population of 22,299 and 25,188 total students as of 2009.
In 2006, Murfreesboro was ranked by Money as the 84th best place to live in the United States, out of 745 cities with a population over 50,000.
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Tour of Old Jefferson, September 27, 2014 - Part 4
Old Jefferson was the county seat of Rutherford County, Tennessee from 1803 till 1811 when the county seat was moved to 'Murfreesborough'.
The Rutherford County Historical Society (RutherfordTNHistory.org) gives a tour of old Jefferson about once a year.
Tornado strikes Murfreesboro, Tenn. 4-10-09
A tornado killed a woman and her 9-week-old infant and also injured dozens Friday in central Tennessee as a line of storms lifted homes, ripped off roofs and dumped hail in the Southeast.
Elsewhere, a tornado touched down in southwestern Kentucky, injuring two people and destroying homes. A possible tornado was reported in northeast Alabama. And large hail fell in North Carolina.
At least 41 people were hurt in Rutherford County, Tenn., four of them critically, in the aftermath of a storm system that killed three in western Arkansas a day earlier.
I think we're right in the middle of tornado alley these days, said Dan Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department.
Dispatchers at the Rutherford County Emergency Management Agency said the area was heavily impacted after several eyewitness reports of a tornado on the ground around 12:30 p.m.
In Murfreesboro, 30 miles southeast of Nashville, at least three dozen homes were destroyed. Roofs were ripped away from at least a dozen homes, and some trees were blown down. A bulldozer was clearing tree limbs and other debris from streets.
Kori Bryant, in her mid-20s, and 9-week-old Olivia Bryant were identified as the dead. They apparently were trying to get in a car — both were found outside, and the infant was in a car seat, rescue official Randy White said.
Amy Jones, 32, was at work at State Farm Insurance when she heard that her house had been leveled. She was stunned when she got to the scene and saw that the 1,800-square-foot home with a garage was lifted completely off the foundation and dropped on her neighbor's home.
My house is on top of someone else's house. It's surreal, Jones said.
Joe Spencer, 23, a student at Middle Tennessee State University, said he had only moments to react but survived a direct hit on his house.
I was going to open the door to see what was going on and I looked straight at a tornado, Spencer said.
He yelled at his brother to take shelter in one of the home's bathrooms and then ran to the other, jumping into the bathtub while holding his dog, LLoyd.
The bathtub started shaking, and I just tried to grab ahold to anything I could. I grabbed the nozzle and turned on the water, Spencer said. Hours later, he was still wet up to his knees.
Spencer, his brother and dog were shaken but uninjured. Outside, the storm's power was apparent. The roof over the living room of the house was gone and the rest of the roof was caved in.
Friday afternoon, search teams fanned out across Murfreesboro, a city of about 100,500, looking for anyone trapped in homes. Clyde Atkinson, spokesman for the Murfreesboro Police Department, said he believes there were three to five touchdowns mostly in the northern and western parts of the city.
Several homes were emblazoned with a spray-painted c, indicating emergency crews had checked them.
Gov. Phil Bredesen, Deputy Gov. John Morgan, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., and other officials are scheduled to tour the affected areas Saturday in Rutherford County by helicopter and on the ground.
In Kentucky, State Trooper Stu Recke said one person suffered a broken hip and leg while the other suffered a broken ankle. Both were taken to a hospital for treatment, Recke said.
One of the homes destroyed belonged to Robert Huggins, 65, who said he, his son and two other men were working in his garage when the tornado hit. When the storm passed, his 2,500-square-foot home was gone.
We heard it coming, Huggins said. We went to the garage door and it got louder and louder. It was like a freight train like everybody says.
His daughter-in-law, who was inside the home, was thrown about 70 feet and was taken to the hospital. He said his 10-year-old grandson, who was also in the home, suffered only bruises.
Several possible tornadoes were reported in north Georgia as heavy rain, hail and winds downed trees and power lines. Flights were delayed for up to 90 minutes at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as dark gray clouds swirled in from the west.
On Thursday night, a black funnel cloud packing winds of at least 136 mph descended on the western Arkansas hamlet of Mena, killing at least three, injuring 30 and destroying or damaging 600 homes.
Polk County, Ark., Sheriff Mike Oglesby said search-and-rescue teams had combed through the city's downtown Friday and a neighborhood just west that sustained the brunt of the storm without finding any other victims. The sheriff said he had no reports of anyone else missing in the city of 5,700 in the Ouachita Mountains.
MTSU book shares Civil War stories of Tennessee Century Farms
MTSU's Center for Historic Preservation has published a new limited-edition book, Plowshares and Swords: Tennessee Farm Families Tell Civil War Stories, to share more statewide history during this 150th anniversary of the conflict that split a nation.
Authors Caneta S. Hankins and the late Michael Thomas Gavin cover the entire state in the new hardcover volume, using the lives of individual farm families to tell about war, the homefront, military occupation and emancipation.
Hankins discussed the book at the Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County in downtown Murfreesboro Nov. 6.
Plowshares and Swords, which is being released as part of the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations, includes more than 100 images of Tennessee farms and farm families, many of which have never been published before.
You can learn more about the book at
Nice Mill, Murfreesboro, TN. @ 430 CFS / 3.3ft.
Nice Mill, Murfreesboro, TN. @ 430 CFS / 3.3ft.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ, also SAE) is the largest North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. It was founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South. Its national headquarters, the Levere Memorial Temple, was established on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1929.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon has more than 314,000 initiated members since badge numbers were initiated and approximately 14,000 active undergraduates at 244 active chapters and 14 colonies in 49 states and provinces at present. The creed of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, The True Gentleman, must be memorized and recited by all prospective members. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix, the manual of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, for educational development. In March 2014, the fraternity announced that it was eliminating the tradition of pledging following several high-profile alcohol, drug, and hazing-related deaths.
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Elam dam, grist mill remnants and history
This is the last you will probably see of Elam mill in Rutherford county TN. Land has been bought up and burned off to make way for subdivisions. Grist mills were an important part of our previous culture. I will possibly do some other posts on this subject. There were several grist mills in the south with some remains still in tact.
Fishing in darden Tennessee with jay smith
Caught me my first fish
MTSU's Walker Library Displays Civil War Exhibit
Under the direction of history professor Brenden Martin, MTSU public history students designed a traveling exhibit depicting various aspects of Rutherford County, Tenn., during the Civil War.
The exhibit, This Cruel War: Rutherford County Experiences the Civil War, which has been featured at museums in Middle Tennessee, is currently on display at the James E. Walker Library on the MTSU campus.
You can learn more about the students' project at
Ransom Mills Dam boating
My roommates first whitewater experience
State of Emergency still in effect in Rutherford Co.
State of Emergency still in effect in Rutherford Co.
Beauty of Chickamauga Dam, Chattanooga, TN
Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. The dam impounds the 36,240-acre (14,670 ha) Chickamauga Lake and feeds into Nickajack Lake. The dam and associated infrastructure were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017
June 2015 Board Meeting (Friday)
Rutherford County Archives - Digital Photo Collection
Gar Fish Almost Got My eye....
Went to fish at the Nice Mill Dam in Smyrna Tennessee. I was searching for some smallmouth bass but I only caught longnose gar. It was a crazy experience! Be careful handling one of those bad boys LOL What a fight!
trout fishing stones river w/ snakes and weirdos!!!
in this video we run into snakes, strangers and catch a few rainbow trout for good measure