By Alissa Kane
Monument Text: Front side: " Murfreesboro, capital of Tennessee June 1, 1818 to April 30, 1826" Side: "'Resolution Making Murfreesboro State Capital: Resolved by the general assembly of the state of Tennessee, that the next meeting of the…

By Max Farley
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate cavalry commander and slave trader who conducted a well-known cavalry raid on Murfreesboro in July of 1862. Forrest was born in 1831 in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a…

By Alissa Kane
The Confederate Monument on the square was dedicated on November 7, 1901. Eyewitness account of the dedication by William Moffitt J. can be found within Bromfield L. Ridley’s Battles and Sketches, Army of Tennessee. According to the account, 3,000…

By Md Rahaman
The General Griffith Rutherford memorial is located in Rutherford County on the Murfreesboro public square. Rutherford (1721-1805) was an Irish-born Revolutionary war officer who later immigrated with his parents to Philadelphia. He entered the war…

By Max Farley
The Murfreesboro War Memorial, located on Murfreesboro’s Town Square, was dedicated on November 11th, 1948. Raised to “honor the men and women of Rutherford county who served our country in World Wars I and II” and “dedicated to the…