Geographic Center of Tennessee monument (2024)

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Geographic Center of Tennessee monument (2024)
Geographic Center of Tennessee monument (2024)

This is my third visit to this monument, located in a small park along old Lascassas Pk. (old TN96) in Murfreesboro. With my first visit in 2008, the plaque on the marker was stolen.

Upon my 2nd visit in 2014, there was a new plaque with a prominent brass Tennessee with this text:
This marker is erected at a point designated as the Geographical Center of the state of Tennessee. Erected in 1978 by the Rutherford County Historical Society. It memorializes the 200th year of American Independence. This area has been under the jurisdiction of England, Mero district of N. Carolina, Davidson County, State of Franklin, Territory South of the River Ohio & the State of Tennessee

That plaque must have been stolen again as new plaque was placed ca. 2012. This one is less visually interesting but contains more text:
The Tennessee Constitutional Convention in 1834 considered where the permanent seat of state government should be located. A delegate from Williamson County argued that for reasons of equity and convenience, the state capital should be as near the geographic center of the state as could be achieved. The Secretary of State was directed to determine the center point. On Friday, May 30, the Secretary employed University of Nashville mathematics professor James Hamilton to make the determination. On Monday, June 2, Hamilton reported that the geographic center of the state "is one mile and a half east of Murfreesborough." The 1834 Convention did not settle on a site, but specified that the 1843 General Assembly "shall within the first week after commencement of the session, designate and fix the Seat of Government."
Relying on the Hamilton report, Rutherford/Murfreesborough promoters and supporters identified an accessible and available large flat rock two miles northeast of Murfreesborough as the central location for the state capitol. Building corners were staked on the large, exposed bedrock. The 1843 Tennessee General Assembly, however, chose Nashville for the permanent Seat of Government.
Now, an abandoned quarry, the rock that was to be the state capitol is approximately 200 yards due east of this marker.

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Taken on: February 24, 2024
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