“ At Murfreesboro are Soule College for girls (Methodist Episcopal South; 1852) , Tennessee College for girls (Baptist, 1906) , Mooney School for boys (1901) , and Bradley Academy for negroes. Murfreesboro was settled in 1811; was incorporated in 1817, and from 1819 to 1825 was the capital of the state. It was named in honour of Colonel Hardy Murfree (1752–1809) , a native of North Carolina, who served as an officer of North Carolina troops in the War of Independence, and after 1807 lived in Tennessee. ”