Browse Exhibits (4 total)
Heritage Tourism and the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway
This exhibit focuses on heritage tourism and the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway beginning in 1845 with the founding of the railway and ending in the 1940s with the decline of passenger travel on railroads. The exhibit will specifically detail the history of the railroad, the role the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway played in battlefield commemoration of the Civil War, and finally, the railroad's involvement in community celebrations.
Education in Rutherford County after the Civil War, 1867-1887.
Describes African American, and to a limited extent, white education in Rutherford County, Tennessee, after the Civil War. The broad focus of the exhibit is on the general state of education in Rutherford County from 1867 till 1887. The specific focus of the exhibit is on four educators, including three teachers and one Rutherford county superintendent of education.
Family Structure & Household Formation
This exhibit explores African American family structure and household formation in District 9, Rutherford County, Tennessee from 1870-1880. Included in the exhibit are "case studies" of four different African American families in District 9 (the "Ned" Sharp family, the Green Wade family, the "Job" Alexander family, and the Daniel McCullough family).
Churches in Postbellum Rutherford County
A brief investigation of how the Federal military occupation of Murfreesboro influenced the development of separate White and African American churches.