During the history of Shelbyville and Bedford County floods have left their mark on the landscape. The most severe floods occurred in 1902, 1929, and 1948. The March 1902 flood was the greatest known on the Duck River at Shelbyville. It reached an elevation of 737.4 above sea level at the dam, where flood stage Is 719 feet. A description in the April 3, 1902, Shelbyville Gazette stated that “In the course of time Shelbyville and Bedford County have…
Rover is a community located in the North West corner of Bedford Co. From the new Rover History Book Vol. II Dick Poplin writes: “Since the Tenth District is in the northwestern corner of Bedford County and adjacent to Rutherford County, it has had close connection with some of the communities in that county, closer than with some Bedford County communities. In the beginning, Eagleville to the northwest and Versailles to the northeast were in Williamson County, and that…
Shelbyville was named for a war hero. The act establishing a county seat for Bedford County called for a town named Shelbyville to be located and laid off by appointed commissioners. According to an old tradition and some written references, however, the small congregation of cabins around the Big Spring was called Selby’s Ville very early.The man who gave his name to our now prosperous city was Issac Shelby, a hero of the Revolutionary War, later to serve as governor of Kentucky, and was…
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