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1841 - Union University founded. [2] 1850 - Population: 1,917. 1851 Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad begins operating. [1] Murfreesboro Female Institute founded. 1859 - Eaton College active. [7] 1862 - December 31: Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro during the American Civil War. [1] 1869 - Murfreesboro News in publication. [6]
Murfreesboro is a city in, and county seat of, Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. [6] The population was 165,430 according to the 2023 census, up from 108,755 residents certified in 2010. [7] Murfreesboro is located in the Nashville metropolitan area of Middle Tennessee, 34 miles (55 km) southeast of downtown Nashville.
Murfreesboro: 15: Elmwood: October 15, 1973 : Northwest of Murfreesboro off U.S. Routes 41/70S; also 5722 Old Nashville Highway: Murfreesboro: 5722 Old Nashville Highway represents a boundary increase of July 3, 2007: 16: First Presbyterian Church
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]
Rutherford County was formed in 1803 from parts of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties, [1] and named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). [7] Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution.
But there is one lesser known picture of Lee Miller that I have grown to love. Taken in the 1960s (the exact date is unknown), the photographer – who ended up broken by war, a mystery to those ...
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