Marker Text: "Mary Noailles Murfree, who later became a prominent authoress under this pen-name, was born at 'Grantlands,' whose site is now marked by a large pine tree, Jan. 24, 1850. Educated at the Nashville Female Academy, later in…

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…