Rutherford County Real Estate

Click on the Rutherford County map below for more information on the various cities in Rutherford County

Demographics

Rutherford County is home to many well respected companies such as Whirlpool Corp., DK Publishing, Waldenbooks, and a Verizon call center, among others. All that aside Ruthrford County proves to be an excellent place to raise a family, with a more then adequate school system, and a vast array of choices to further ones education either in the county or near by. One of the largest cities in Rutherford, , which is the county seat. Rutherford County encompasses a 619 square mile are area and has a population of approximately 190,143 (U.S. Census 2000).

Geography

Rutherford County is located in Central Tennessee. A large area of the Percy Priest Lake is in Rutherford County. Some of the bigger cities of Smyrna and La Vergne cluster around this lake. It's coastline stretches 22 miles through three counties and has some of the best water activities families and solitary individuals alike can enjoy. It borders Sumner County to the west, Davidson County to the north, Cheatham County to the northwest, and Montgomery County to the east.

Municipalities in Rutherford County

• Christina
• Eagleville
• Fosterville
• Lascassas
• La Vergne
• Milton
• Murfreesboro
• Rockvale
• Smyrna

History

From about 5000 BC until Uriah Stones navigated up an off-shoot of the Cumberland River in 1766, what is now Rutherford County was habituated by Native Americans. The last tribes in Middle Tennessee were the Chickasaw, Cherokee and Creek Indians. They used the area as their hunting grounds. When white settlers began the westward movement into Tennessee from places like North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Native Americans were forced to find other areas to hunt and live.

Most of these new Tennesseans held land grants from the Revolutionary War. They planted corn and built homes from logs. Lumber was shipped out of the area on flat boats, up and down the river. By 1803, the state legislature deemed there were enough people to justify forming a new county, Rutherford County. It was named in honor of North Carolina General Griffith Rutherford, and was formed from portions of the counties of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties. Murfreesboro, the current county seat, sits in the center of Rutherford County, along the Stones River.

The first county seat was established in the community of Jefferson, near Smyrna, and in 1811 the town of Cannonsburough was established as the new county seat. After just 33 days, the name of the town was changed to Murfreesborough, now Murfreesboro, in honor of Hardy Murfree,a Revolutionary War friend of William Lytle, who donated the land. In 1834 it was determined that the center of Tennessee was located on Old Lascassas Pike, one mile from downtown Murfreesboro. The location was nicknamed "the dimple of the universe" by local residents, and the spot was later marked with an obelisk by the Rutherford County Historical Society.