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Murfreesboro

Tennessee, United States
Also known as: Cannonsburgh
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Murfreesboro, city, seat (1811) of Rutherford county, central Tennessee, U.S., lying on the West Fork Stones River about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Nashville. Settled near the end of the American Revolution and originally named Cannonsburgh, it was established in 1811 on a land tract donated by a Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel William Lytle, and named for a friend, Colonel Hardy Murfree. From 1818 to 1826 Murfreesboro was the state capital. One of the...

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