Editing Murfreesboro, North Carolina (section)

==Attractions==
Numerous buildings of the town, mostly grand houses, are on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the [[David A. Barnes House]], [[The Cedars (Murfreesboro, North Carolina)|The Cedars]], [[The Columns (Murfreesboro, North Carolina)|The Columns]], [[Cowper-Thompson House]], [[Freeman House (Murfreesboro, North Carolina)|Freeman House]], [[Melrose (Murfreesboro, North Carolina)|Melrose]], [[Myrick House]], [[Myrick-Yeates-Vaughan House]], [[Francis Parker House]], [[William Rea Store]], [[Roberts-Vaughan House]], and [[John Wheeler House (Murfreesboro, North Carolina)|John Wheeler House]]. In addition, [[Princeton Site]] and the [[Murfreesboro Historic District]] are listed on the NRHP.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20140620.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-06-20|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 6/09/14 through 6/13/14|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>

The John Wheeler House is identified as the birthplace of [[John Hill Wheeler]], a planter and politician who served as Minister to [[Nicaragua]] and North Carolina State Treasurer. In 2013 it was established that [[Hannah Bond]], a slave who escaped to the North and wrote ''[[The Bondwoman's Narrative]]'' under the name of Hannah Crafts, had been held by him as a domestic servant. She escaped around 1857 from his plantation and wrote her manuscript on paper traced to his library. It was found in the early 21st century, authenticated and published for the first time in 2002 as the first known novel by an African-American woman.<ref name=Bosman>{{cite news |last=Bosman |first=Julie |title=Professor Says He Has Solved a Mystery Over a Slave's Novel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/books/professor-says-he-has-solved-a-mystery-over-a-slaves-novel.html?hp |access-date=19 September 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 September 2013}}</ref>

The old Murfreesboro public school (which housed grades 1 - 12 until 1972) has been redeveloped as the [[Brady C. Jefcoat Museum]]. It houses the collections of Brady Jefcoat, a [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] native. It includes hundreds of well-preserved ordinary items from the late 19th and early 20th century, including functional phonographs, radios, washing machines, and agricultural implements, as well as a wide variety of other novelties.<ref>{{cite web | title =The Brady C. Jefcoat Museum | publisher =Murfreesboro Historical Association | year =2007 | url =http://www.murfreesboronc.org/venuespages/jefcoat.html | access-date =2007-12-27 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080131025131/http://www.murfreesboronc.org/venuespages/jefcoat.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2008-01-31}}</ref>