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…

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…