Mary Ellen Vaughn Home Site: 609 S. Highland Ave,

Mary Ellen Vaughn was highly educated and multi-talented. As a journalist, she established the Murfreesboro Union newspaper in 1920. As a nurse, she worked with the rural health effort funded by the Commonwealth Fund. In order to assist African Americans with passing the literacy test requirement for voting, she started Vaughn’s Training School in her home at this location in 1933. She is one of the few local women to have a street named for her.