This is Flashback Frank of the Rutherford County Historical Society.
We’ve all done it; we’ve all wondered where certain names originated. Names of communities such as Cedar Grove or Almaville or Readyville.
The Rutherford County Historical Society mentions more than 100 place names but I have just over two minutes to speak so let’s cover some of the most popular and unusual of these place names…
Almaville is said to have been named in 1879 by a general store pr .
This is Flashback Frank of the Rutherford County Historical Society.
Some of the early public and private schools in Rutherford County had very imaginative descriptive names.
Hard Start School was built on a hill on Miller Road near Christiana in 1872. History has failed to explain the name for this school; perhaps “hard start” was meant to be descriptive of the early educational challenges in this rural community in the 1870s.
Little Hope School, built in 1894, was an African-Ame .
Rather than strumming full chords, Norman Blake's acoustic guitar version of "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" features a taut melody on the bass strings.