Tag: Bill Carey
Bill Carey ‘The History Guy’ A Look Back at Tennessee 200...
*Originally posted in The Tennessee Magazine
By Bill Carey
The history world makes a big deal of anniversaries such as the centennial of the passing of...
The Mail Hack by Bill Carey
*This story originally posted in the TnMagazine.com
Once part of Tennessee culture, these mail carriers linked our communities together the old-fashioned way.
By Bill Carey January...
Eight things that make Andrew Johnson a fascinating person by Bill...
By Bill Carey
We in Tennessee talk more about Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk than we do Andrew Johnson. Therefore, I’ve come up with...
The Vanishing Remains of the First Road across the Plateau
The Vanishing Remains of the First Road across the Plateau
By Bill Carey October 2019
Interstate 40 winds below Spencer’s Rock,...
Do You Know Rutherford County History? Datsun, Confederates, Murfreesboro was the...
By Bill Cary
(Posted with permission from tnhistoryforkids.org)
Rutherford County
Nissan's groundbreaking
PHOTO: TN State Library & Archives
Let's talk about something big that happened in Rutherford County, followed...
Tennessee History for Kids Revises Its Booklets to Meet New Standards
By Bill Carey, the Tennessee History Guy
Tennessee History Lesson
I’ve never written as much as I have during the past 18 months.
Tennessee has adopted new...