Flowers for Murfreesboro, TN

There is a geographic marker just south of town declaring Murfreesboro the exact center of Tennessee, and the flower map here has spread out to match how the city has boomed around that point. The historic courthouse square still anchors the old town — the neighborhoods off East Main and the streets around the county courthouse pull the classic anniversary and birthday work — but the volume has followed the growth out to the Gateway district along Medical Center Parkway, where Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford and a wall of new offices sit, and out past Broad Street toward Blackman and Siegel. Middle Tennessee State University drops a college-town rhythm over all of it: move-in, homecoming, and graduation weeks that empty coolers, plus a steady term-time trickle of birthday and get-well bouquets to the residence halls.

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