MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — Before the businesses, and city hall were built in downtown Murfreesboro, there sat a neighborhood called “The Bottoms.”
“I stayed at the top of the Bottoms on Front Street,” said Margaret Davis.
People like Davis and George Clark can share fond memories about this neighborhood.
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“We played down there in The Bottoms,” said Clark. “[We] rode bicycles through The Bottoms, and picked on everybody in The Bottoms.”
They are just a few that remember what life used to be like there.
“On Front Street…[there were] certain places that the buses wouldn’t go, so we had to walk to school rain, shine, sleet or snow,” said Davis.
“There wasn’t any work down there…no jobs and the people lived in dilapidated houses,” said Clark.
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After the Civil War, The Bottoms formed, becoming a place where low-income African Americans lived.
“The reason they called it The Bottoms, because every time it rained real hard it would flood out,” said Clark.