The Archives is maintained as part of the Bledsoe County Public Library.
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The Bledsoe County Public Library is recognized by the Tennessee State Library and Archives as the Bledsoe County Archives and Historical Records Repository. Our genealogy and Tennessee history collection includes research materials for the Sequatchie Valley as well as adjoining counties. Library Director Carolyne Knight is a Certified Archives Manager.
The library maintains many published family histories and a family histories file. Also of interest are the Cherokee and Melungeon books and files, and the Soldiers’ Pension Lists of 1792-1795, 1812, 1820 and 1890.
The library archives and special collections contain many items of interest, including the following:
- Bledsoe County Chancery Court Loose Papers, 1840-1940.
- Bledsoe County Circuit Court Minute and Docket Books, 1853-1912.
- Bledsoe County Board of Education Minute Books, 1919-1928.
- Bledsoe County Warrant Book, 1856-1872.
- Farmers Union Telephone Company Directors and Stockholders Book, 1912-1915.
- Quarterly Conference Records, Methodist, Pikeville Circuit, 1866-1874.
- First Families of Bledsoe County Files (courtesy of the Bledsoe County Historical and Genealogical Society)
- Civil War Soldiers from Bledsoe County Pension and Record Files.
- John A. Murrell File and Book Collection
- Early area maps
- Early Bledsoe County births, deaths and marriage records (compiled from official sources)
- Bledsoe County Eleventh Census Special Schedule – 6th Civil District 1890
- Letters and Broadsides 1882-1893