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MURFREESBORO

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 34 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MURFREESBORO , a city and the county-seat of Rutherford county,
Tennessee
 , U.S.A., near the Stone River, 32 M. S.E. of Nashville. Pop. (1890), 3739; (1900), 3999 (2248 negroes); (1910), 4679. It is served by the Nashville Chattanooga & St Louis railway. It is in an agricultural region where
cotton
  is an important crop, and has a considerable trade in red
cedar
 , hardwood,
cotton
 , livestock and grain; it has also various manufactures. At Murfreesboro are Soule College for girls (Methodist Episcopal
South
 ; 1852),
Tennessee
  College for girls (Baptist, 1906), Mooney School for boys (1901), and Bradley
Academy
  for negroes. Murfreesboro was settled in 1811; was incorporated in 1817, and from 1819 to 1825 was the
capital
  of the state. It was named in honour of Colonel
Hardy
  Murfree (17521809), a native of North Carolina, who served as an officer of North Carolina troops in the War of Independence, and after 1807 lived in Tennessee. About 2 M. west of the city the battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone River (q.v.), was fought on the 31st of December 1862 and the 2nd of January 1863.


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