Murfreesboro
a city and countyseat of Rutherford co., Tenn.; on the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis railroad; 32 miles S. E. of Nashville. It is in a cotton and agricultural region.
Here are a court house, National banks, Soule College (Meth.), Middle Tennessee State Normal School, and the Tennessee College for Young Ladies, and several weekly newspapers. The city has carriage shops, planing mill, sawmills, manufactory of red cedar goods, machine shops, cotton-gin works, and a large trade in cattle and cotton, cotton, flour mill, etc. In 1819-1826 it was the capital of Tennessee. Close by the bloody battle of Stone river was fought on Dec. 21, 1862, and Jan. 2, 1863, between Generals Rosecrans and Bragg; the Confederate army was compelled to retreat, but the Pop. (1910) 4,679; (1920) 5,367. on both sides were nearly equal.