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Marymont Springs provides an Elegant Lifestyle!
ParkTrust Development has taken great strides to ensure that Marymont Springs offers a preserved, natural landscape of rolling hills, open fields, and clear running streams that create beautiful vistas throughout the community. After moving in to your beautifully appointed, custom built home, you and your family can embark on a vigorous bike ride along the network of winding paths, or spend a Saturday afternoon skipping rocks on Overall Creek. Whatever your mood and inclination, nature will always provide a backdrop that beckons you to come out and play.
Come visit us the weekend of September 11th and 12th for our fall kick-off; you will be able to experience first-hand our bucolic setting, and view our remaining handsomely crafted custom homes in Phase I. I will be delighted to share our updated site plan featuring magnificent water features including a sparkling lake, an amenity that will consist of 2 pools (one with a lazy river!), a fun puddle park for the children, and the historic Mansion with meeting space for your every need, be it for Thursday night BUNCO, or your daughter’s wedding reception.
Come visit Marymont Springs where you can escape to natural….everyday!
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Posted by:
Karen Boynton
If you have had a chance to review the National Register of Historic Places recently, you will find that the Marymont mansion has been an icon on Rucker Lane in Murfreesboro since the mid 1800’s. As the story goes, the workers on this cotton plantation laid down their tools and exchanged them for arms to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Built by Hiram Jenkins, Jr. on 640 acres of land in about 1861, Marymont was constructed of handmade brick that was fired in a kiln right here on the property.
legislature approved the elevation of the school to university status on February 16, 1965, and on July 1, 1965, the university and town celebrated this change. In the same year, the Cope Administration Building was opened, and Wilbert Bond Sr. became the school’s first African American graduate. By 2006, Middle Tennessee’s State University enrollment was more than 21,500 students. The four year public university offers 140 undergraduate degrees and continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. The 10th, and current president of MTSU is Sidney McPhee, and the university has a full time staff of over 800 people.
At another site in town, the City of Murfreesboro donated 15 acres of land for a new training school to be built, and the neoclassical building was completed and fully equipped for $200,000. This building is currently known as the Homer Pittard Campus School, named for Dr. Homer Pittard. The good doctor, a Middle Tennessee State Teachers College Alumni, education professor, and well known local historian, had an immeasurable influence on Murfreesboro’s educational process.
Prompted by my visit, I began some reading on The Bradley Academy in Murfreesboro, located at 415 South Academy Street, originally built in 1811. Today, the current building, built in 1917, sits in the very same location as another institution of the same name. In 1814, a young James K. Polk graduated from the first Bradley Academy, and you may be interested in knowing that the citizens of color in Murfreesboro began using the school in 1881. The school functioned until the 1960’s, and the old 
school was then added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Today, if you travel to this site, you will find that the school is the home of a museum and cultural arts center.
I just love when I am driving thru the county side or a small town area, and out of nowhere catch a glimpse of a pristine white steeple aglow in the sunlight; that is truly an awe inspiring and spiritual moment wherever I am! Next time you find yourself cruising thru 
downtown Murfreesboro, slow down a bit and take a look around at the beauty of the many unique and lovely churches that are all very fine examples of various types of architectural design. Murfreesboro has often been called the “home of beautiful churches”, and if you listen closely on any given Sunday, you will hear the church bells ringing throughout the downtown community. 
The many different denominations represented is also a testament to the deep faithful ties that are at the core of our foundation. Weekly worship, bible study, and Christian networking groups are all part of the tapestry that make Murfreesboro a wonderful place to call home!
If you are a fan of architectural style as I am, you will find that the “American variety of homes are loosely modeled on one of four architectural tradition: Ancient Classical, Renaissance Classical, Medieval, and Modern.
The earliest style, Ancient Classical tradition, is based on the monuments of early Greece and Rome. The very closely related Renaissance Classical tradition stems from a return of interest in classicism during the period of the Italian Renaissance in the early 15th century. These two classical traditions , Ancient and Renaissance, share many of the same architectural details.
The Medieval tradition came between the two classic periods, and includes architecture based on the formal Gothic style used for church buildings in the Middle Ages. Medieval architecture most influencing American style came from houses originated in England and France.
The fourth tradition, the Modern movement, began in the late 19th century and is prevalent today. This style is primarily based on a lack of ornamentation which results in an external simplicity and spatial variation made possible by new and improved construction techniques.
Other traditions that have greatly influenced American houses are mostly Spanish in origin. Simple structures built during the Spanish Colonial era in the United States, as well as the more elaborate styles from Spain and Latin America, have inspired American home builders today.”
Next time you drive around Murfreesboro, be sure to notice the many styles and influences on the homes that make up our community; you may be surprised by the many unique “looks” we have about town!
You know, I have always loved all things “old”, and that includes styles of architecture that takes us back to days gone by! The Rutherford County Courthouse is easily the most recognizable pieces of architecture in the town of Murfreesboro. It’s look has evolved over the years, from the original courthouse with its cupola on top dated in 1894, to the enhancements and modifications that are represented in today’s structure. This courthouse was the third to sit in its exact location and was built by E.E. Dandridge of Nashville in 1859 for about $50,000.
It is common knowledge that the courthouse was under federal guard during the war between the states. On July 13th, 1862, Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest and approximately 1,300 soldiers took back the town of Murfreesboro from the federal army. Forrest was responsible for freeing many civilian prisoners being held in the courthouse and has been revered as a hero in the town of Murfreesboro ever since. On that very same day, Col Forrest turned 41 years old…a memorable day indeed!
Whether you have been in the area for years or are a recent transplant, you may be interested in knowing that Murfreesboro was born on a small, 60 acre tract of land in Rutherford County, Tennessee. This particular land had belonged to Lt. Col. Archibald Lytle and was granted to him in 1786 for his service in the Revolutionary War; The Col’s land holdings in the area was quite extensive, having received 7,200 acres for his service. Archibald died without ever having children and willed his land holdings to his brother, Capt William Lytle. William and his wife, Nancy Taylor Little, moved from Hillsboro, NC and established a settlement on the West Fork of the Stone’s River around 1799.