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…

Marker Text: "1907-1946. On this site was Tennessee's only senior college for women for thirty-eight years, training students from throughout the United States to be educators, missionaries, and home-makers. The ideal of its Baptist founders was…

Marker Text: "First organized in 1834, and chartered in 1848 by the Baptist General Association of Tennessee, Rev. Joseph H. Eaton was its first president. Closed during the Civil War, its buildings were used by both armies as a hospital.…

Marker Text: "Constituted April 10, 1874, in the building of the First Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, then located 200 yards east on the north side of East Main Street. The Tennessee Baptist Convention is the channel through which Southern Baptist…

Marker Text: "Front side: From 1868 to 1914, the residence of James Daniel Henderson stood on this corner. He served as an officer in the 45th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, and was wounded at Resaca, Georgia. At age 22 he returned to…

Marker Text: "Blue Star Memorial: A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America. Sponsored by: Flower Growers, Optimistic Gardeners, Garden Lovers and Stones River Garden Club in Cooperation with Tennessee…

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…

The historic markers for General James R. Chalmers’ Mississippi Brigade and General Daniel P. Donelson’s Tennessee Brigade were dedicated November 18, 1995. General James R. Chalmer’s Mississippi Brigade was active during the Battle of Stones…

The Old Bradley Academy historical marker is free-standing and located on Academy Street in front of the Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center. Bradley Academy was founded in the early nineteenth century as a school for white males. James K.…

Bradley Academy’s historical marker was erected in 1955 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Bradley Academy, Murfreesboro’s first educational institution, was organized for the education of white men in 1806. The school was integrated in…