[email protected] wrote: > More info...... > Launa > > Rutherford Co., TN GenWeb > Goodspeeds online: > http://www.tngenweb.org/rutherford/rugoodsp.htm Eagleville The village of Eagleville, consisting of about thirty families, is situated in the southwest part of the county. The first settlements made in that neighborhood were made about 1790. Pioneer settlers were William and Thomas JORDAN, Henry RIDLEY, James SHEPARD, Robert DONALDSON, James NEAL, Daniel SCALES, Ab SCALES, John GUY, Robert WILSON, James GILLESPIE, Joe CARSON, ___ BURGESS, George and Robert WHITE. The Missionary Baptist Church was organized one and one-half miles north of Eagleville November 7, 1839, by Rushing James KEAL and John LANDRUM. The first members were Thomas and Sophia JORDAN, Elizabeth WILLIAMS, Josiah JOHNSON, Drury BENNETT, William CULLOM, Robert and Nancy PALMER, John and Rhoda HAZELWOOD. It was then called Harpeth Baptist Church, but on removal to Eagleville, in about 1866, it was called Eagleville Baptist Church. Eagleville Lodge, No. 17, I. O. O. F., was organized May 20, 1846. The charter members were John NUNN, William NUNN, Samuel RANKIN, Thomas W. MAXFIELD, S. S. MORGAN, Thomas CHEATHAM, Thomas MOORE and William TAYLOR. Business: Charles WILLIAMS sold the first goods in the place in 1832. His old stand is now occupied by his sons, J. C. & R. E. WILLIAMS. R. S. BROWN has also sold goods for a number of years. Other branches of business are a drug store, cabinet shop, machine shop, tobacco factory, flouring mill, two blacksmith shops, livery stables and a boot and shoe shop. The school, now under Prof. G. M. SAVAGE, was chartered several years ago. It employs seven teachers, and the curriculum embraces the entire course of mathematics, natural sciences, English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Anglo-Saxon languages, metaphysics, logic, music and art. This school is furnished with a commodious boarding house for girls, and a row of ten rooms for boys, beside the family buildings. The school building has eight rooms besides the chapel.