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The county was named for 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. [4] Like many East Tennessee counties, Bledsoe County opposed secession on the eve of the Civil War.
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By 1818, the Bledsoe County seat had been moved from Madison to Pikeville. The town was incorporated in 1830. [1] J.V. Wigle (1890–1970), a combustion engineer from Michigan and laboratory assistant at Eastern Michigan University, met a local woman, Mattie Lawson, and settled down in Pikeville. He first brought electricity to town when he ...
The suit was filed last month in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga against Bledsoe County government and deputies Chase Roberts and Matthew Brock. Lawsuit filed over death of Tennessee man during ...
Additionally, several members of the governor's staff serve in the cabinet. Governor-elects can, and often do, rearrange the departments, and thus the number of commissioners. Under the incumbent Governor Bill Lee, there are 29 members of the Cabinet: 22 commissioners, 1 director, and 6 members of the Governor's staff. [3]
The Bledsoe County Courthouse is a historic building in Pikeville, Tennessee. It serves as the courthouse for Bledsoe County, Tennessee . It was built with red bricks by the Fall City Construction Company of Louisville, Kentucky , [ 2 ] and completed in 1909. [ 3 ]
First encounter. Bledsoe said that in 2007, he was battling Crohn's Disease and as a home builder, things had slowed locally in the home construction and real estate markets when Fort Liberty ...
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