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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PDU_the-charge-kept-coming-coming-like-the-sea_Murfreesboro-TN.html
The fields you see here witnessed a full afternoon of ferocious fighting on the first day of battle at Stones River. Federal cannon raked the Confederates charging across the open cotton fields toward the Nashville Pike. Here Union regiments that …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PDT_uncle-dave-macon-1870-1952_Murfreesboro-TN.html
One of Tennessee's early country music performers was the irrepressible singer and banjo player, Uncle Dave Macon, the "Dixie Dewdrop." David Harrison Macon, was born in the tiny hamlet of Smartt Station in Warren County, and spent hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PDS_passing-through-murfreesboro_Murfreesboro-TN.html
In fall 1818, over 11,000 Cherokee in nine organized groups passed by here as they continued on their Trail of Tears toward Indian Territory in the West. The Cherokee had been traveling for a few weeks but had already crossed the Tennessee River a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PDQ_their-longest-coldest-new-years-eve_Murfreesboro-TN.html
There was some talk [at Rosecrans' headquarters] of falling back, I do not remember who started the subject, but...I said ...my men would be very much discouraged to have to abandon the field after their good fight of the day... Rosecrans, receivi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PD0_tollgate_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Entering Cannonsburgh you cross Town Creek by way of an early iron bridge. This is the first iron bridge ever constructed in Rutherford County and it originally crossed Stewart Creek.p From 1804 to about the time of World War I, every road ou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KNN_parsons-batteries-heavily-engaged_Murfreesboro-TN.html
The 200 Regular Army gunners of Batteries H and M set up their eight cannon from here all the way to the Nashville Pike. For four solid hours, at brutal short range they fired many hundreds of rounds if munitions into the rebel ranks. Their steady…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FUQ_tennessee-baptist-convention_Murfreesboro-TN.html
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 churches in Te…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FUP_james-daniel-richardson_Murfreesboro-TN.html
(side 1) From 1868 to 1914, the residence of James Daniel Richardson 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 Murfreesboro, became an …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FUO_old-bradley-academy_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Bradley Academy was founded in the early nineteeth century as a school for white males. Among the earliest students was James Knox Polk. From 1884 until the 1960s, it was an elementary and secondary school for African-Americans in Rutherford Count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CY6_this-far-but-no-farther_Murfreesboro-TN.html
For six hours, the Confederates had been on the attack. Their relentless onslaught had pushed half the Union army back three miles. Tangled cedar woods and rock-filled terrain took their toll. A 1,800-man brigade of tired Tennesseans finally emerg…
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