By Alissa Kane
Marker Text: "Lieutenant Colonel Hardy Murfree, for whom Murfreesboro Tennessee, is named, served in the Continental army during the American Revolution. He fought in many engagements, including Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. At Stony…

By Alissa Kane
On the third and final day of the Battle of Stones River, Union cannons lined up on the high ground at McFadden's Ford fired upon Confederate soldiers trying to take the high ground. After this bloody exchange, Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee…

By Alissa Kane
The Hazen Brigade monument was built in the summer of 1863, making it the oldest Civil War monument still standing in its original place of construction. This monument commemorates the efforts of the men of William B. Hazen's Brigade. Hazen's Brigade…

By Alissa Kane
Marker Text: "In 1855, W. S Huggins and Company built a four-story brick mill building on this site. It was powered by two twenty-give horsepower engines with a capacity of 200 barrels of flour per day. In 1860, William Spence bought the mill.…

By Alissa Kane
Memorial Text: "Erected in honor of W.H. Westbrooks, Founder Cannonsburgh, a bicentennial village 1976. In memory of Allie Clark Westbrooks for her support and dedication to Cannonsburgh."

By Alissa Kane
Memorial Text: "In Memory of Jesse Messick October 4, 1929-April 28, 1988. An outstanding citizen of Murfreesboro and Rutherford county whose vision and love for our county heritage and its music led him to conceive and organize the first Uncle…

By Alissa Kane
Marker Text: "A distinguished sports writer and poet, Rice was born November 1, 1880 in a house which stood here. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, 1901, he later was called the Dean of American Sports Writers, and became internationally…

By Alissa Kane
Marker Text: "Organized 1825 as 'The Female Academy' by Misses Mary & Nancy Banks, & teaching rhetoric, philosophy, belles-lettres, painting, needlework & music, it was improved in 1852 & named for Bishop Soule of the ME church South. It closed…