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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Official Website Rutherford County was formed in 1803 and was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Counci...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1779 and was named for Griffith Rutherford, leader of an expedition against the Cherokee in 1776 and a general in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties McDowell County Burke County Cleveland County Cherokee County, SC Spartanburg...
Middle Tennessee State University, commonly abbreviated as MTSU or MT, is a comprehensive coeducational public university in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.Founded in 1911 as a normal school, the university is composed of eight undergraduate colleges as well as a college of graduate studies, together offering more than 80 majors/degree programs through more than 35 departments. MTSU is most prominentl...
Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery is located on 250 Hudlow Road, Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina. Find a Grave
The Battle of Hoover's Gap (24 June 1863) was the principal battle in the Tullahoma Campaign of the American Civil War , in which Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans drove Gen. Braxton Bragg ’s Confederates out of Central Tennessee . Rosecrans’ feigned move on the western end of the Confederate line had left the eastern mountain passes lightly defended, and Col. John T. Wilder 's mounted infantry a...
The First Battle of Murfreesboro was fought on July 13, 1862, in Rutherford County, Tennessee , as part of the American Civil War . Troops under Confederate cavalry commander Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest surprised and quickly overran a Federal hospital, the camps of several small Union units, and the jail and courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee . All of the Union units surrendered to For...
Stones River National Battlefield Within park boundaries is Stones River National Cemetery, 20.09 acres with 6,850 interments (2562 unidentified). Find a Grave
The Third Battle of Murfreesboro, also known as Wilkinson Pike or The Cedars , was fought December 5–7, 1864, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. In a last, desperate attempt to force Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union army out of Georgia, Gen. John Bell Hood led the Army of Tennessee north toward Nashville in November 1864. ...