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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: August 25, 2015
Caption: Colonel Murfree
Additional Description: Lt. Colonel Hardy Murfree, from whom the city of Murfreesboro was named, purchased the land on which Oaklands now stands in 1798. When he died in 1809, Colonel Murfree owned about 40,000 acres in Middle Tennessee. Because Col. Murfree left no will, the Tennessee legislature distributed his landholdings among his heirs. The future Oaklands tract was awarded to Murfree’s daughter, Sally Hardy Murfree Maney.
Submitted: November 27, 2015, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p339787
File Size: 0.110 Megabytes

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