By Sydney Durham
This building has an important significance to the Murfreesboro community and is located 806 East State Street. This church’s history spans back to the Civil War, and it remains an important place of worship for the local black community here in…

By Nikki Foshee
Today, many visit this block to go to City Hall or the Linebaugh Public Library; however, in the grand scheme of Murfreesboro’s history, these places are relatively new. Before the Broad Street Project that began in 1952, the landscape looked…

By Logan Mcvey
On the intersection of South Highland Avenue,and Vaughn Street lies the historical marker for Mary Ellen Vaughn. The marker sits where Vaughn Training school once stood and its inscription states: Born in Alabama, in 1893 Mary Ellen Vaughn, a…

By Nikki Foshee
Long before the Broad Street Project of the early ‘50s and final relocation of City Hall to this site, 211 W. Vine St. served another role in the community. Around 1891, freed slave and grocery store owner King Ganaway had a house built here for his…

By Riley Muncher
Holloway High School, built in 1929 as a Rosenwald School, has been an important part of black history in Rutherford County. The Rosenwald School project was an initiative led by Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington which built schools during…

By Jason Ritter
The building standing at 226 S. Highland Ave., on the corner of E. Sevier St., has not always been the Kleer-Vu Lunchroom. Wilhelmenia Patterson acquired the building as a grocery store in the late 1960s. The lunchroom itself began in a rear storage…

By Logan Mcvey
The near 100 acre parcel of land known as Evergreen Cemetery lies between North Highland Avenue and Greenland Drive. The area was historically part of the lands belonging to Oaklands Mansion until 1872 when then-owner Dr. James Maney sold off 20…

By Jason Ritter
At the south end of Maney Ave, where it intersects Broad Street, now sits the Discovery Center at Murfree Springs. Many people might remember the location being more commercial due to the large Coca-Cola bottling plant that sat there for almost a…

By Kenneth Tyler, Jr
This two-story, single-family home was listed as a "Tourist Home" run by Mrs. Minnie Ester Howland in The Negro Motorist Green-Book from 1947-1960. The "Green Book" was a travel guide published between 1936 and 1966 that listed…

By Nyandiang Mangluak
Allen Chapel AME was founded shortly after the abolishment of slavery in 1866 and it is one of Murfreesboro oldest African American congregations. It is named after the denomination's founder, Richard Allen. Over the course of the late…