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Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford led 2,500 militia man over a buffalo trail over twenty days in September of 1776, destroying Cherokee town, barns and crops, and driving the Indians into the hills. Today, the trail is called Rutherford's Trace and historical highway markers line its path from Old Fort to Murphy. In 1946, a monument was erected in Murfreesboro in Rutherford's honor.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 44 Issue 9, Feb 1977, p29-31, 39, il
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