Actually, the East fork of the Stones River starts to angle North, just East of Readyville. It joins the West Fork several miles N.W. of Murfreesboro, at a place called Jefferson. This was the original County Seat of Rutherford Co. Years ago, huge Cedar Trees grew all over Cannon Co. People would cut them and float them down the Stones, to Jefferson and probably on to Nashville. There was also a Cedar Processing Plant & Cedar Furniture Company at Smyrna, not far from Jefferson. Before Nissan and Interstate 24, the smell of cedar lumber (and Mayor Ridley's speed traps), were Smyrna's major attractions I recall, several years ago, when Percy Priest Dam backed up the waters of the Stones, the lake covered the original site of Jefferson. The Corp. of Engineering was dredging the river channels near the junction of the two major forks of the Stones, and several huge logs were found waterlogged and lying on the bottom. Turns out, these were ancient Cannon Co. cedar logs that had become waterlogged and sank, years ago, while awaiting transit. Bringing them up and out of the water and after milling a small amount from the outside, they yielded a lot of beautiful, knot free & straight grained cedar lumber, probably a hundred or more years old. Lumber that you can no longer find, at any price. A fortune, in furniture wood, for someone. Jess