"Charles Egbert Craddock"

"Charles Egbert Craddock" is a Tennessee historical marker in Rutherford County.

in Murfreesboro, at junction with Craddock” Lokey Ave.

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Mary Noailles Murfree, who later became a prominent authoress under this pen name, was born at "Grantlands," whose site is now marked by a large pine tree, Jan. 24, 1850. Educated at the Nashville Female Academy, later in Philadelphia, her first work was published in 1874, her last posthumously in 1930. She died in Murfreesboro, July 31, 1922.

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Historical maps covering this location

1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Ft. Rosecrans, Tenn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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