
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.
Official Website
History
Bledsoe County was formed in 1807 from land that was formerly Indian Land as well as land carved from Roane County. The county was named for Col. Anthony Bledsoe (1739–1788), a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was an early settler of Sumner County. He was killed in an Indian attack at Bledsoe's Station.
Like many East Tennessee counties, Bledsoe County opposed secession on the eve of the Civil War. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession on June 8, 1861, the county's residents voted against secession by a margin of 500 to 197. Gen. James G. Spears, a resident of Bledsoe, served as a vice president at the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention in May and June 1861, and fought for the Union Army in the war.
Adjacent Counties
Cities & Communities
- Cold Spring
- Dill
- Lees Station
- Lusk
- Melvine
- Mount Crest
- New Harmony
- Nine Mile
- Pailo
- Pikeville (County Seat)
- Summer City
- Tiptop
Links
USS Bledsoe County LST-356
East Tennessee Historical Society
