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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.
Beginning at 10:00 p.m. on January 3, he withdrew through Murfreesboro and began a retreat to Tullahoma, Tennessee, 36 miles (58 km) to the south. Rosecrans occupied Murfreesboro on January 5, but made no attempt to pursue Bragg. [32] Rosecrans was quoted after the battle as saying, "Bragg's a good dog, but Hold Fast's a better." [33]
The First Battle of Murfreesboro was fought on July 13, 1862, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, as part of the American Civil War.Troops under Confederate cavalry commander Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest surprised and quickly overran a Federal hospital, the camps of several small Union units, and the jail and courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Additional monuments around the Courthouse include, a monument to Revolutionary War Gen. Griffith Rutherford, a monument dedicated to Rutherford County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty since 1946, two plaques in memory to the memory of Forrest's Raid on Murfreesboro (July 13, 1862), a memorial to Veterans of Foreign Wars, a ...
The Third Battle of Murfreesboro, also known as Wilkinson Pike or the Cedars, was fought December 5–7, 1864, in Rutherford County, ...
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.
Galena-fluorite specimen from the Elmwood mine, south of Carthage. Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee.As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,904. [2] ...