|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Bookselling Opens Superstore in Murfreesboro, Bazillion Opens Superstore in Murfreesboro, Bisaillon Opens Superstore in Murfreesboro, or Bookstall Opens Superstore in Murfreesboro ?
|
Murfreesboro
Murfreesboro , city (1990 pop. 44,922), seat of Rutherford co., central Tenn., on Stones River; inc. 1817. It is the processing center of a dairy, livestock, and farm area. Manufactures include appliance motors, packaged foods, boats, and outdoor furniture. Murfreesboro was the capital of Tennessee... Read more |
|
Battle of Stones River
Stones River, Battle of (1862–63).Stones River—also known as the Battle of Murfreesboro—was one of the costliest engagements of the Civil War in Tennessee. Following the failure of his Kentucky campaign the previous fall, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg positioned his Army of... Read more |
|
James McGill Buchanan
James McGill Buchanan 1919-, American economist, b. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. A professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969-83) and George Mason Univ. (1983-), he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his "public choice" theory that... Read more |
|
Richard W Johnson
Richard W. Johnson 1827-97, Union general in the Civil War, b. Livingston co., Ky., grad. West Point, 1849. Before the Civil War he served principally on the frontier. Johnson, made a brigadier general of volunteers in Oct., 1861, served as a division commander in the Armies of the Ohio and the... Read more |
|
Charles Egbert Craddock
Charles Egbert Craddock pseud. of Mary Noailles Murfree , 1850-1922, American novelist, b. near Murfreesboro, Tenn. She wrote her best works about the mountain people of Tennessee, most notably The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1885). Her novels combined romantic descriptions of... Read more |
|
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden , 1819-93, Union general in the Civil War, b. Russellville, Ky.; son of John J. Crittenden and brother of George B. Crittenden. He served in the Mexican War and was (1849-53) U.S. consul at Liverpool. A major general in the Kentucky militia when the Civil War began,... Read more |
|
William Babcock Hazen
William Babcock Hazen 1830-87, American general, b. West Hartford, near Hartford, Vt. In the Civil War he fought at Shiloh, Perryville, and Murfreesboro, and in the Chattanooga campaign. Promoted to major general of volunteers (1864), he led a division in General Sherman's campaign through Georgia... Read more |
|
William Joseph Hardee
William Joseph Hardee 1815-73, American army officer, Confederate general, b. Camden co., Ga. A graduate of West Point, he served with distinction in the Mexican War and compiled Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics, a standard army textbook of the time (1853-55). In 1856, he was appointed commandant... Read more |
|
Mary Noailles Murfree
Murfree, Mary Noailles (1850–1922),born in Murfreesboro, Tenn. spent most of her life in her native state, which she described in her local‐color fiction published under the pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock. She published dialect short stories of life in the Cumberland Mountains in... Read more |
|
Genesco Inc
Genesco Inc. 1415 Murfreesboro RoadNashville, Tennessee 37217-2895U.S.A.Telephone: (615) 367-7000Fax: (615) 367-8278Web site: http://www.genesco.com Public Company Incorporated: 1925 as Jarman Shoe CompanyEmployees: 11,100Sales: $1.284 billion (2005)Stock Exchanges: NYSETicker Symbol: GCONAIC:... Read more |
|
|
Books-A-Million Opens Superstore in Murfreesboro.
...the opening of a superstore location in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in the...lifestyles. Each superstore location offers...Books-A-Million superstore offers Joe Muggs...http://www.booksamillion.com) CONTACT... |