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Oaklands Mansion is an historic house museum located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. Oaklands is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a local landmark known for its unique Italianate design. The plantation was caught in the middle of the Civil War and officers from both the Confederate and Union armies stayed in the ...
Murfreesboro is a city in, and county seat of, Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. [6] The population was 165,430 according to the 2023 census, up from 108,755 residents certified in 2010. [7] Murfreesboro is located in the Nashville metropolitan area of Middle Tennessee, 34 miles (55 km) southeast of downtown Nashville.
The Discovery Center began as the "Discovery House", a children's museum, in 1986. [1] During its first year of operation it had 11,000 visitors. [2]In 1995 after it outgrew its old location the Discovery House staff, Congressman Bart Gordon and Murfreesboro Mayor Joe Jackson, with the help of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, began to study the possibility of reusing the vacated site ...
The Battle of Stones River opens near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Undated. A smallpox epidemic breaks out in California.
The 2022 Murfreesboro mayoral election took place on August 4, 2022. Incumbent Republican mayor Shane McFarland ran for re-election and won a third term in office in a 3-way race. [11] [12] The mayoral election coincided with other elections, including races for Murfreesboro City Council. [13] Murfreesboro has been a Republican stronghold.
The paper used to claim to have been running "since 1849;" however, its ancestral paper The Murfreesboro News was founded in 1850 by A. Watkins and was shut down due to the Civil War. In 1866, Rev. Henderson re-started The Murfreesboro News, which was later bought by C.C. Henderson in 1898. [3] [5]
Shane McFarland (born August 5, 1974) [4] [5] is an American politician who is currently serving as the 57th Mayor of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, since 2014. He was first elected on April 15, 2014, [6] 40 years old, making him the youngest mayor in Murfreesboro history. [7] McFarland was recently re-elected in 2022. [8]
Additional monuments around the Courthouse include, a monument to Revolutionary War Gen. Griffith Rutherford, a monument dedicated to Rutherford County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty since 1946, two plaques in memory to the memory of Forrest's Raid on Murfreesboro (July 13, 1862), a memorial to Veterans of Foreign Wars, a ...