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Murfreesboro is a town in northwestern Hertford County, set on high ground just south of the Meherrin River.

Murfreesboro was chartered on January 6, 1787, and named for Irish immigrant William Murfree, who donated 97 acres of land around Murfree's Landing to form the town.

Back in 1754, the colonial General Assembly had already designated Murfree's Landing as a King's Landing, where cargo was inspected by a representative of the Crown.

In 1790 the U.S. Congress designated Murfreesboro an official port of entry, and the town thrived at the northernmost point of navigation on the Meherrin River — the last regular commercial vessel, a Texaco oil barge, did not stop calling until October 1966.

The 2020 census counted 2,619 people in Murfreesboro, living in 938 households.

Murfreesboro is home to Chowan University, which opened on October 11, 1848, as the Chowan Baptist Female Institute with just eleven students and became Chowan University on September 1, 2006.

Chowan is the second-oldest of North Carolina's five Baptist colleges, and education in Murfreesboro goes back even further, to the Hertford Academy established in 1809.

Meherrin Baptist Church, founded in 1735 as the Meherrin Church, is the second-oldest Baptist church in North Carolina.

The old Murfreesboro public school now houses the Brady C. Jefcoat Museum, filled with hundreds of preserved everyday items from the late 1800s and early 1900s, from working phonographs and radios to washing machines and farm implements.

An enslaved woman named Hannah Bond escaped from Murfreesboro's John Wheeler House around 1857 and, writing as Hannah Crafts, produced The Bondwoman's Narrative — recognized as the first known novel by an African-American woman.