Please have all donations turned in by March 25, 2026.
Your support helps us create a fun, memorable event for the children and families we serve. Every egg makes a difference! 🐰💐
For more information, contact Activities at 📞 615-893-2624 ext. 3834.
02/14/2026
Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at CCRC! 🌹💌💕
12/29/2025
December has been such a fun month at CCRC! Thank you to everyone who has helped make it great and put a smile on our residents' faces. ❤️
Wag It Better
12/24/2025
Some of our residents made the news for coloring Meteorologist Shelby Mac's coloring pages! Thank you WKRN News 2 for making our week! 🎨✨
12/18/2025
Thank you to the wonderful people at Nissan for brightening the season for our residents year after year. Your kindness and generosity are greatly appreciated! 🎁✨
Nissan Smyrna - Building More Than Great Cars
12/15/2025
Thank you to the Knights of Columbus for your generosity and for spreading Christmas cheer to our residents! 🎅🏼🎄
12/12/2025
A huge thank you to everyone who bid on a Christmas tree during our annual Hall of Trees!
Your support made it possible for us to give to Toys for Tots and brighten the season for so many children in our community. We had a blast shopping for the toys! 🎄🧸🎁
12/09/2025
CCRC Holiday Luncheon 12.6.25 🎄🌟
Thank you to everyone who came out and to our wonderful staff & volunteers who helped make it great! Happy holidays, everyone! ✨
12/03/2025
🎄✨ Hall of Trees Sneak Peek! ✨🎄
We are so excited to share a first look at this year’s beautifully decorated trees!
See the pictures below showcasing all the creativity, hard work, and holiday spirit that went into each one. 🌟
A huge thank you to all of our amazing sponsors for making the 22nd Annual Hall of Trees possible. Your support helps brighten the season and make a meaningful impact in our community. ❤️
Don’t forget — Hall of Trees bidding is open now through Monday, December 8th, 2025 at 4:30pm!
We hope to see you there! 🎁🌲
11/22/2025
2025 CCRC ANGEL TREE is up and ready for you to come and pick your angel. The gift card holders have the angel's info inside. Come and get your angel before they are all gone!
Thank you
Any questions you may reach me at 615-893-2624 ext 3839 or email Vjohnson@rutherfordcountytn.gov
Just so you know what this is really about. I know everyone is having a hard time these days and with the holidays approaching we don't know everyone's situation. So this Angel Tree that i do every year is for employees with a child / children that could use some extra help with Christmas 🎄. I myself pick one off the tree and my department do an angel together 🥰 Thank you and Happy Holidays 😊
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Based on the information and research of Mr. Ed Annable
1892 – 1946 – The beginnings of the County Farm started as the county government “poorhouse” founded on the property where Community Care now sits. During this period there was a poorhouse, insane asylum, prisoner work house and pest house. On January 6, 1891, an agreement was reached that the county work house should be included in the plan for a self-sustaining “county farm.” By January 4, 1892, it was reported to the county court that acreage on the Jack Wade place had been purchased and the self-sustaining county farm was started. Mr. J. A. Carlton was the superintendent also a minister and for $540.00 per year he had a job description as follows, “feeding and waiting on the paupers, then burying the dead, free of charge to the county.”
On April 2, 1901, a committee was appointed to build a pest house. In the early 1900’s the state of Tennessee endured many diseases such as flu, cholera, smallpox, dysentery, and the worst being yellow fever. Two separate houses were built, one for black patients and one for white patients. Dr. J. B, Murfree, Jr. was employed as the pest house physician at $3.00 per visit.
By the 1930’s the Great Depression affected the county farm in many ways. The cost for seed caused a reduction in the food supply and the population of the county farm increased. One interesting fact was the increase in “inmates” at the farm. In 1930 the inmate average population was 66, in 1931 it was 68 and then in 1932 it had climbed to 73, this compared to the average population in 1925 of only 49 inmates.
By the 1940’s, writes Mr. Ed Annable, it appears that the notion of a “rest home” began to formulate. On October 12, 1959, the court voted to build a new county rest home according to the standards of the state licensing board. By January 9, 1961, a 50 bed nursing home was nearing a reality. This would become the Rutherford County Rest Home and then later in the 60’s the Rutherford County Nursing Home.
While most of the buildings at the county farm built during the early period with the bars and the cells are gone, there are still remnants. Pictures from this period show the harsh living conditions of the times. Several of these pictures can be found in the Historical Society documents that are referenced. One such picture shows a house with cells and a wood stove at one end, another had space with the wood stove within bars so those housed would not get burned. The superintendent’s residence is still standing and thanks to the hard work of Jeremy Warren and Jim Delaney, has been restored to a livable home. Artifacts have been found periodically that indicate Civil War troops had been on this land and research continues.
The pauper’s cemetery has been located and through research several names of those buried have been found. Future plans include finding more names of those buried and then placing a plaque at the cemetery to remember some of the men, women and children, both black and white, who lived and died at the county farm.
The information and documentation for the County Farm history can be found in the Rutherford County Historical Society Publication No. 30, published in the winter of 1988. Thank you to Mr. Ed Annable for his research and writing about the history of the farm.
Community Care of Rutherford County was established in 1987, new additions have been built. Future plans have begun to be put on paper to accommodate culture change as we move away from institutional living and begin to create homes for our elders. The staff, current residents and family members hope to continue to add to this rich history.
