Series Description

RCHS Records

Series 1: Minutes
This series contains the minutes from the 1966 organizational meeting and the minutes from RCHS meetings 1970-1999.

Series 2: Financial
This series contains financial statements, bank statements, and check stubs of the RCHS. There are various dates ranging from 1974-1998.

Series 3: Membership
Ranging from the 1970s through the 1990s, this series contains correspondence, presentations, and projects carried out by members, as well as member index cards, and RCHS stationary and templates.

Series 4: Founding Documents/Awards
This series contains RCHS resolution and incorporation papers, by-laws, and certificates from the 1970s-1990s.

Series 5: Numbered Publications
This series contains the numbered publications produced by the RCHS from 1973 to approximately 1997. These publications contain a wide variety of historical information on Rutherford County. Included in this series are also several camera ready (proof) copies of many numbered publications from the 1970s and 1980s. There are also some misc. loose materials used to create certain publications. To search RCHS Numbered Publications by Keyword, click here.

Series 6: Frow Chips
This series contains the RCHS newsletter called Frow Chips, starting at Volume 1 in 1971 and continuing to the present. There is also a folder of misc. materials used in certain Frow Chips. To search Frow Chips by Keyword, click here.

Series 7: Other Publications
This series contains publications created by the RCHS that differ from the Numbered Publications because they are dedicated to a specific topic. Dates range from the 1970s to 2005. Several of these publications are in camera ready (proof) form, but please note the Gore Center has bound copies of many of these other publications shelved in the front office.

Series 8: Audio
This series contains cassette tapes of oral history interviews of local people and speeches given at various local history gatherings. The recordings date from 1978-1981. Among the most interesting are interviews with Eddie Arnold, whose father was a Confederate P.O.W., Preston Ford who was one of the first WWI draftees in Rutherford Co., and a documentary program on Grand Ole Opry star Uncle Dave Macon.

Series 9: Microfilm
This series contains 4 reels of microfilm containing Rutherford County wills from the 19^th century and Lavergne Presbyterian Church records from 1887-1972.