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Added to NRHP. July 16, 1973. The Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is a Classical Revival building from 1859. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1] It is one of six remaining antebellum county courthouses in Tennessee [2]
Murphy Center. Charles M. Murphy Athletic Center (commonly known as the Murphy Center) is the name of the main athletic department building at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The building opened December 11, 1972, and is named in honor of former athletics director Charles M. "Bubber" Murphy, a standout athlete at ...
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1862 - December 31: Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro during the American Civil War. [ 1] 1869 - Murfreesboro News in publication. [ 6] 1872 - Evergreen Cemetery established. 1892 - Murfreesboro Street Railway begins operating. [ 1] 1899 - News-Banner newspaper begins publication.
Murfreesboro is a city in, and county seat of, Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. [6] The population was 152,769 according to the 2020 census, up from 108,755 residents certified in 2010. [7] Murfreesboro is located in the Nashville metropolitan area of Middle Tennessee, 34 miles (55 km) southeast of downtown Nashville.
The Discovery Center began as the "Discovery House", a children's museum, in 1986. [1] During its first year of operation it had 11,000 visitors. [2]In 1995 after it outgrew its old location the Discovery House staff, Congressman Bart Gordon and Murfreesboro Mayor Joe Jackson, with the help of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, began to study the possibility of reusing the vacated site ...
Stones River National Battlefield, a 570-acre (2.3 km 2) park along the Stones River in Rutherford County, Tennessee, three miles (5 km) northwest of Murfreesboro and twenty-eight miles southeast of Nashville, memorializes the Battle of Stones River. This key battle of the American Civil War occurred on December 31, 1862 and January 2, 1863 ...
First Presbyterian Church currently is a historic church at 210 N. Spring Street in Murfreesboro, Tennessee . Murfreesboro was the capital of Tennessee from 1818 to 1826. In 1822, the Rutherford County courthouse, where the legislature met, burned. The legislature then met at the First Presbyterian Church, the largest building in town, with the ...