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The
Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is copy
of what a working pioneer village would look like from the 1830s
period onward and contains many old relics and artifacts that
include a gristmill, all kinds of farm equipment and machinery
and the world's biggest cedar bucket. The bucket is a red cedar
bucket that holds 1556 imperial gallons and is about six feet
tall, with 9 foot diameter at the top and 6 feet at the base. It
was constructed by the Tennessee Red Cedar Woodenworks Company
in Murfreesboro, in 1887 and originally exhibited Murfreesboro
until it went to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the 1904
Saint Louise World Fair. The factory burned down in 1952, and
the local grocer, Crigger's Market purchased the huge bucket so
that it could exhibit it and in 1965, it was auctioned off and
bought by a Rossville, Georgia amusement park. It returned to
its original home in 1976 and has been showcased at the
Cannonsburgh Village ever since. In 2005, the bucket was burned
by arsonists, but the fire was extinguished before any
surrounding structures could catch fire and Roadside America has
visited and stated that the bucket is severely burned, blackened
and splintered with charcoal shards held together by metal
bands. Members of the Rutherford County Blacksmith's Association
pledged to restore the bucket in 2005, but by 2007, it hadn't
been able to locate any high quality red cedar.
The
Discovery Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee was chartered in 1986 as
the Children's Museum Corporation of Rutherford County to offer
hands-on education classes to the community. After a wonderful
grassroots campaign had been accomplished by the parents and other
interested parties, a structure was found and bought, with numerous
programs and exhibits begun. In its first year of operation, there
were more than 11,000 excited children that visited here, and now
almost a quarter of a century later, the center has become a viable
and significant educational, cultural and tourism center with more
than 120,000 children and families coming here to explore and
discover the many treasures that abound. Some of the featured
exhibits include; creation station, shadow room, Newton's loft &
super slide, discovering healthy families, Tennessee live!,
discovery depot, fire truck, wetlands boardwalk, waterworks, Kids
build KEVA, wheels, tiny town & totspace and more. Just the creation
station alone is filled with markers, chalk, paint, clay, paper,
cardboard, and anything else that can be used to create
masterpieces, the station is there to encourage the hidden artist to
come and play. In discovering healthy families, the hands-on
activities and visual exhibits encourage your children to learn
about the importance of staying healthy and all the ways that they
can do to accomplish it. In here you can learn about healthy choices
on Make Your Choice wall, try to jump as high as a kangaroo on the
jumping wall, check out their blood pressure or build a food
pyramid. There are many exciting and marvelous displays like these
that entice your child or children to become more involved in their
surroundings and learn to interact and play better with others. A
fantastic place to take your child to help them in any way possible.
The
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Department of Geosciences
mineral, gem and fossil museum was opened in 2005, under the
leadership of the school's professor Dr. Albert E. Ogden, who became
the first curator. The MTSU Society, under Lewis Elrod, assisted
them as well as giving them many of the excellent specimens that are
being exhibited. It has become a wonderful educational resource
since it showcases various specimens in the museum's exhibits. It is
enthusiastly used by the university's students and is open to the
public, which is able to view the many specimens that have been
collected, discovered and preserved in almost pristine condition.
The museum has become a major resource for the earth science
students attending the university, as well as educating the public
about the thousands of minerals, gems and fossils that have been
excavated by the university's scientists and students. The majority
of visitors that have come here are school students, from elementary
and middle school, that come during the week to learn as much as
possible from the exhibits and information gathered about them. The
museum is also helpful to the scout programs, helping the young
scouts earn their geology merit badges. It is open on Saturday
afternoons, free of charge to the public. There are two main display
galleries and a smaller black light room to showcase their marvelous
illuminating specimens and fluorescent minerals. These samples and
examples have come from every corner of the United States and 50
other countries throughout the world. The most significant gallery
contains mineral specimens that are highlighted in their family
groups and the other gallery is home to semi-precious stones,
birthstones, figurines carved from different metals and fossils. The
museum is also open during the week for touring since it has to be
for the young students visiting here, but for the public visitation,
they ask that you make an appointment. They have decided to open a
rock shop so that visitors can come here and make purchases, and are
currently waiting for a woolly rhino skull to be delivered. It is a
fantastic place to visit when you are in the Murfreesboro area and
one that the entire family, regardless of ages is sure to find very
exciting and interesting. 
Rutherford
County was started in October, 1803, and Jefferson would become the
county seat in honor of our third president, Thomas Jefferson and it
became growing quickly since it was located at the mouth of the
Stones River. The first courthouse was finished being constructed in
1806, at a cost of $2500, but the county was moved in 1811 to a tiny
settlement in the middle of the county at a place called
Cannonsburgh. In 1811, towards the end of the year, the legislature
decided to rename the settlement to Murfreesborough, with a Captain
William Lytle wanting to honor his friend and comrade, Colonel Hardy
Murfree. By 1813, the new courthouse, stocks and whipping post were
finished and ready for any and all offenders, although today, there
are no images or documents that can give more information about
this. The legislature would recognize Murfreesboro as an official
city in 1817, and the following year, would name it the capital of
the state. That second courthouse would house the state legislature
until 1822, when it burned down. Some of the nation's earliest well
known politicians started their careers here, including, Sam
Houston, David Crockett and James J. Polk, with a occasional
visitor, who announced his run for the US Senate, Andrew Jackson. By
1858, a much larger courthouse was needed, and a committee was
organized to oversee the building of it on the previous site that
had burned down. That courthouse is the same one sitting on that
site today, except for the additions later of the north and south
wings. In 1860, the bell and clock tower would be added on, just
before the Civil War. In 1862, the Union troops that were garrisoned
here would hang many of the local patriots (it should be noted here
that these patriots were people that loved their southern roots and
not the patriots of the United State, at that time) the next morning
when Nathan Bedford Forrest arrived with a force of 1300 to capture
or drive out the Federal troops there. Forrest and his men came to
the square where the courthouse sat, with the Union army commander
being located on two floors of it. Forrest had two lines of men face
the doors on the east and west sides of the courthouse and gave them
an axe to bring down the doors, and when one of them was killed, the
next in line would take the axe and continue until the doors were
knocked down, the building taken over and the prisoners freed. The
Confederates would camp on the lawn of the courthouse from July 1862
until January 1863, when the Battle of Stones River was won by the
Union troops. For the remainder of the war, the courthouse would
become their headquarters. The courthouse would stay intact
during the rest of the war and would only need repairs done for
minor problems until the turn of the century, with additions and
improvements being made during that period. There would be more work
done in 1908 to make room for offices and a third floor added, and
in 1913, when a tornado swept through Murfreesboro, the building
would survive. There were more memorable events and happenings that
occurred in the city and around the courthouse, but that is better
left to be read at another time. It is a marvelous place to visit
with much history and information and should be visited to learn
more. 
The
Fortress Rosecrans rises along the fields in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, and was the biggest fort that was constructed during the
Civil War, with many parts of the enormous fort still remaining
intact today. It was built between January and June of 1863, after
the Battle of Stones River by Brig. General James St. Clair Morton,
chief engineer of the army of the Cumberland. The fort would cover
about 225 acres and had eight lunettes and four redoubts that were
interconnected by numerous curtain walls and abatis. There were many
buildings located there that included quartermaster depots,
quarters, saw mills, warehouses and magazines. The fort was placed
at the junction of the Stones River and the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad and the intersection of the old Nashville Pike
and Wilkinson Pike. It would never be attacked by Confederate
troops, but rather give logistical support to the Union army as they
advanced on Chattanooga, Atlanta and Sherman's March to the sea. The
army started building it on January 23, 1863, with the Pioneer
Brigade from Michigan that was experienced in constructing railroads
and fortifications overseeing the 40,000 men that were camped in the
area. Beginning out, there were 4000 men working on an eight hour
shift to clear out the land, create moats, position abatis and build
the reinforced earthen parapet walls of the huge fortress. The walls
were made of tramped earth reinforced by wood revetments, brick,
wire, and stone and contained lunettes (window slits), magazine,
revetments (embankments) and redoubts. On its northwest side, a
large convalescent camp was set up for the wounded, and Morton also
created a guide for the fortress's defense. In June of 1863, the
building pace was hurried so that the Army of the Cumberland could
start advancing to Chattanooga, and as Maj. General William S.
Rosecrans left Murfreesboro, he had 2000 troops stay behind to
defend it under the leadership of Brig. General Horatio Van Cleve.
When the war was done, the area again returned to its agricultural
heritage, except for the west wall and one redoubt that have been
preserved to today. The city would acquire it in 1966, and it was
transferred to the National Park Service in 1993, which in turn
became a part of the Stones River National Battlefield and they have
all been connected by a 3.2 mile Stones River Greenway and was
listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Craighead
Caverns is a magnificent cave system in Sweetwater, Tennessee that
is famous for having the nation's biggest and world's second biggest
underground lake, the Lost Sea. The caves contain a spectacular
amount of crystal clusters called anthodites, stalagmites,
stalactites and a beautiful waterfall. Set in the foothills of the
Great Smoky Mountains, the caves were named after their former
owner, a Cherokee Native American, Chief Craighead and had been a
meeting place for the Cherokee nation. Some time later, it would be
mined by Confederate soldiers for saltpeter, one of the main
ingredients in making gunpowder. During an expedition into the
system in 1939, explorers discovered a skeleton of a Pleistocene
jaguar, who were Clarence Hicks and Jack Kyker, cave guides, who had
been exploring the cave in their time off. The present owners were
W. E. Michael and Dr. W. J. Cameron and the two guides told their
employers about the discovery, who then submitted the bones to the
American Museum of Natural History in New York City, who informed
them that the bones belonged to a very big jaguar and elk fawn. In
May of 1940, vertebrate paleontologist, George Gaylord Simpson, came
to the caverns where he would find more jaguar bones and made casts
of the numerous jaguar paw prints the were still visible on the
muddied floor. From 1939 to 1940, a mushroom farm would operate out
of the cavern, with manure supplied for the growth coming from the
horses stabled at Fort Oglethorpe. The mushroom beds were put in the
Big Room, a couple of hundred feet from the northeast historic
entrance, and during 1947, a wooden dance floor would be constructed
in the same area and a nightclub called the Cavern Tavern operated
there. The lost lake was found by a 13 year old boy in 1905,
named Ben Sands and as the story goes, young Sam would often come
here and play around in the old cave, going through a small opening
he had discovered he came into a room so big that he couldn't see
the ends with the light from his lantern. He decided to throw mud
balls in every direction, so that he could hear the splats and
discern how far. He went home and began telling folks in town about
the findings, although they didn't believe him at first. When some
of them went there with numerous lanterns, the water had receded
some and thus it was named the lost sea. The lake's surface is about
800 long and 220 feet wide at average capacity, and cave divers have
explored many rooms under the water, but never reached the end, in
the 1970s. It would be assumed that it was the biggest underground
lake in the world for many decades, but it is now realized that it
is the second biggest. The owners offer boat rides on the lake and
most people consider it to be the featured event; although there
have been times when the water level was lower, like in 2007 and
2008 when there was a drought. At that time, the cavern looked much
larger, but it was still an exciting and thrilling time.