Stories by author "Alissa Kane": 31
Middle Tennessee State Teachers College Training School Historic Marker
Marker Text:
"The teacher-training school of Middle Tennessee State Normal School, now MTSU, was established in 1911. This model school still provides practice teaching experience, laboratory methods classes, and observation facilities.…
Geographic Center of Tennessee Historic Marker
Marker Text:
"In 1834, the State of Tennessee hired Professor James Hamilton to find its geographic center in order to locate the state capital as near as possible to the center of the state. However, certain circumstances and politics left the…
First Presbyterian Church
National Register of Historic Places plaque text:
"First Presbyterian Church: Chartered 1812, is listed on the National Register of historic places by the United States Department of the Interior."
Allen Chapel AME Church
National Register of Historic Places plaque text:
"the Allen Chapel AME church has been placed on the national register of historic places by the United states department of the interior. Founded in 1860."
Confederate Veterans Memorial
Monument Text:
"This monument is dedicated to the men from Rutherford County who joined the Confederate army of Tennessee and served in the following companies during the war between the states 1861-1865"
Murfreesboro State Capital Plaque
Plaque Text:
"This tablet commemorates the fact that Murfreesboro was the capital of the state of Tennessee from September 26, 1819 to October 15, 1825. Erected by the Colonel Hardy Murfree Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution…
Birch Bryant Memorial
Memorial Text:
"Birch Bryant 8/7/47-11/8/04. A friend of downtown. Member of Uncle Dave Macon Days. 1978-2004. Top Ad Salesman for 15 years."
Rutherford County Civil War Veterans Plaque
Plaque Text:
"Placed in memory of the Rutherford County Boys who gallantly served in the world war by the United Daughters of the Confederacy 'The Brave Beget the Brave.'"
General Nathan Bedford Forrest Plaque
Plaque Text:
"Erected to the memory of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest by the Daughters of the Confederacy for Heroic Services rendered the citizens of Murfreesboro on July 13, 1862."
Charles Egbert Craddock Historic Marker
Marker Text:
"Mary Noailles Murfree, who later became a prominent authoress under this pen-name, was born at 'Grantlands,' whose site is now marked by a large pine tree, Jan. 24, 1850. Educated at the Nashville Female Academy, later in…