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MURFREESBORO , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Rutherford county, See also:Tennessee, U.S.A., near the See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone See also:River, 32 M. S.E. of See also:Nashville. Pop. (1890), 3739; (1900), 3999 (2248 negroes); (1910), 4679. It is served by the Nashville See also:Chattanooga & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis railway. It is in an agricultural region where See also:cotton is an important See also:crop, and has a considerable See also:trade in red See also:cedar, hardwood, cotton, livestock and See also:grain; it has also various manufactures. At Murfreesboro are Soule See also:College for girls (Methodist Episcopal See also:South; 1852), Tennessee College for girls (Baptist, 1906), Mooney School for boys (1901), and See also:Bradley See also:Academy for negroes. Murfreesboro was settled in 1811; was incorporated in 1817, and from 1819 to 1825 was the See also:capital of the See also:state. It was named in See also:honour of See also:Colonel See also:Hardy Murfree (1752–1809), a native of See also:North Carolina, who served as an officer of North Carolina troops in the See also:War of See also:Independence, and after 1807 lived in Tennessee. About 2 M. See also:west of the city the See also:battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone River (q.v.), was fought on the 31st of See also:December 1862 and the 2nd of See also:January 1863.
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