

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...
Stones River National Battlefield Within park boundaries is Stones River National Cemetery, 20.09 acres with 6,850 interments (2562 unidentified). Find a Grave
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...
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. ...