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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.
[12] [13] On the west side of the Courthouse, in 1912, a tablet was erected by the Col. Hardy Murfree Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate Murfreesboro's status as former state capitol. Another monument was erected, this time on the southwest lawn, in 1949 to further memorialize the city's status as former state ...
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.
Between 1877 and 1950, 236 lynchings of Black people in Tennessee have been documented, including hangings of Black journalists, business leaders, and teachers. [64] Lynchings were a form of social control whereby a victim's family, friends, and other community members were forced to adopt a public code of silence about the lynching or fear for ...
As of the census of 2000, there were 37,586 people, 13,905 households, and 10,345 families residing in the county. The population density was 79 people per square mile (31 people/km 2). There were 14,990 housing units at an average density of 32 per square mile (12/km 2).
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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