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GiftsIdeas by priceEvery Murfreesboro design starts with the city: the courthouse on the Square, the Stones River, the dead center of Tennessee. Printed to order for you. Perfect for Square regulars, Blue Raider grads, and anyone who moved away and misses it.
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Murfreesboro sits right at the geographic center of Tennessee, about 34 miles southeast of Nashville, and that centrality shapes everything here. It's a college town built around MTSU and the Blue Raiders, a history town built around the Stones River battlefield, and a Saturday-morning-on-the-Square kind of town all at once.
Life here moves around a few constants: the Public Square downtown, the Greenway trails along the Stones River, and whichever youth sports tournament is filling up the hotels that weekend. People here know their neighbors, know which pizza place they grew up on, and still call it "the Boro."
We put that hometown pride on a t-shirt because this is a place worth repping.
Murfreesboro started out as a settlement at the confluence of Town and Lytle creeks, land given by Colonel William Lytle for a Public Square, a cemetery, and the First Presbyterian Church. The spot was first named Cannonsburgh after politician Newton Cannon, but about thirty days later Lytle had it renamed Murfreesborough in honor of his Revolutionary War friend Colonel Hardy Murfree. By early 1812 the name had shortened to Murfreesboro.
The Tennessee legislature chartered the town in 1811 and made it the seat of Rutherford County, and the first courthouse, finished in 1813, actually served as the capitol of Tennessee from 1818 to 1826. Murfreesboro almost became the state's permanent capital in the 1840s, but local officials balked at paying the one hundred dollars it would have cost to move the state records from Nashville.
The Civil War left a deep mark here. For three days in the winter of 1862 and 1863, 81,000 Union and Confederate troops clashed at the Battle of Stones River, one of the war's largest and most important engagements, and that battlefield is still a huge part of how Murfreesboro sees itself today.
Locals and visitors alike call it "the Boro," and it's known as the geographic center of Tennessee.
615, same as Nashville and the rest of Middle Tennessee.
It was briefly called Cannonsburgh after politician Newton Cannon, but about thirty days later landowner William Lytle had it renamed Murfreesborough after his Revolutionary War friend Colonel Hardy Murfree. By 1812 the name had shortened to Murfreesboro.
Yes, the first courthouse, completed in 1813, served as the state capitol from 1818 to 1826, and the town nearly became the permanent capital in the 1840s.
Self-guided tours of Cannonsburgh Village are free, and the Murfreesboro Greenway's 17-plus miles of trails cost nothing to walk, bike or paddle from.
Yes, MTSU anchors the east side of downtown, founded in 1911 and home to the Blue Raiders, with 17 NCAA Division I teams.
Sources: tennesseeencyclopedia.net · rutherfordtnhistory.org · murfreesborotn.gov · nps.gov · onlyinmurfreesboro.com · livability.com · boropulse.com · mainstreetmurfreesboro.org · en.wikipedia.org · visitrutherfordtn.com
