Oaklands collection is primarily comprised of 1865 and earlier items commonly found in homes similar to Oaklands Mansion during it’s original occupancy by the Maney family. Subsequent, owners including the Darrow, Roberts and Jetton families, left their mark. The mansion was vacant and vandalized from 1954 until 1959. Once scheduled for demolition a group of ten local women organized Oaklands Association Inc, in 1959 and accepted the deed to the mansion.
Today, approximately one third of the collection is original to the mansion and the Maney family. Some photographs, personal items and furnishings from the later families are also found throughout the house museum. Additional items have a history of use in, or were made in, Murfreesboro or Rutherford County Tennessee and are likely similar to items that may have existed here.
