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Oaklands Mansion is an historic house museum located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. Oaklands is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a local landmark known for its unique Italianate design. The plantation was caught in the middle of the Civil War and officers from both the Confederate and Union armies stayed in the ...
1817 - Murfreesboro incorporated. [2] 1818 Murfreesboro designated Tennessee state capital. [3] Population: 950 (estimate). [1] 1822 - County courthouse burns down. [4] 1826 - Tennessee state capital moves from Murfreesboro to Nashville. [1] 1827 - Temperance Society formed. [1] 1828 - Andrew Jackson visits town. [1] 1830 - Population: 786. [1]
Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Within park boundaries is Stones River National Cemetery, [11] 20.09 acres (81,300 m 2) with 6,850 interments (2562 unidentified). Just outside the cemetery proper is the Hazen Brigade Monument (1863), the oldest surviving American Civil War monument standing in its original location.
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 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.
This list of museums in Tennessee encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Sword of the Lord is a Christian fundamentalist, Independent Baptist bi-monthly 24-page newspaper.. The Sword of the Lord is published by Sword of the Lord Ministries, a non-profit organization [1] based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which also publishes religious books, pamphlets, and tracts from a fundamentalist Christian perspective, as Sword of the Lord Publications.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.