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Bledsoe County and Regional Museums

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On January 10, 2022

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Bledsoe County History Museum

Located in the Ross House

108 Frazier St, Pikeville, TN 37367

Ross House Medical Museum

The site is most widely known as the place where Dr. James A. Ross operated his medical practice in a small building behind the house. Both the circa 1872 house and the office building are being restored.  In the 1940’s, the house served as the county’s second hospital. The committee is searching for the names of the Bledsoe “Boomers” who were born there.

108 Frazier St, Pikeville, TN 37367

Betty Dunn Nature Center

Natural history museum located in Van Buren County

10821 Park Rd, Pikeville, TN 37367

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Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum

The Dunlap coke ovens are the remnants of a coke production facility near Dunlap. National Register of Historic Places site.

Mountain View Cir, Dunlap, TN 37327

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Burritt College Museum

Located in Spencer, Van Buren County

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Pioneer Hall Museum

Pioneer Hall is a historic school building in Pleasant Hill in Cumberland County. It was built for the American Missionary Association from 1887 to 1889 and designed by Reverend Benjamin Dodge, a Congregationalist from Maine.  National Register of Historic Places site.

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Rhea County Court House Landmark and Museum

Historical exhibits primarily related to the Scopes trial in 1925.

1475 Market St, Dayton, TN 37321

Cumberland Homesteads and CCC Museum

96 Highway 68, Crossville, TN 38555

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White County Heritage Museum

144 S Main St, Sparta, TN 38583

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Palmer Miner’s Museum

2115 Main St, Palmer, TN 37365

Bledsoe County Archives

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On January 10, 2022

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The Archives is maintained as part of the Bledsoe County Public Library.

Click here for location, hours, and contact information.  Click here to view the Tennessee State Library and Archives’ directory listing for the Bledsoe Archives.

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

Bledsoe County Elected Officials

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On January 9, 2022

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Bledsoe County is administered under the framework of a publicly elected County Legislative Body and publicly elected officials.

The Tennessee Constitution expressly provides for certain county offices, while others are created by the state legislature. In addition to the office of county mayor/executive and the county legislative body, Article VII, Section 1, of the Tennessee Constitution provides that each county have a sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property elected by the voters of the county for terms of four years.

The Judicial Article of the Tennessee Constitution, Article VI, also provides in Section 13 that any inferior court clerk shall be elected by the people on a district or county basis to a four-year term, and that the chancellors shall appoint a clerk and master for each district or county for a term of six years.

Both the circuit court clerk and the clerk and master are currently elected or appointed one per county, but some counties have private acts or charters that establish other inferior court clerks such as general sessions court clerk and juvenile court clerk. All of these constitutional or quasi- constitutional offices except the assessor of property collect fees and are commonly referred to as “fee” offices.

The legislature determines the qualifications and duties of each office. Tenn. Const., art. VII, § 1. The duties of these officers in a county with a consolidated city-county government are specified in the charter.

Mailing address for all county offices:

P.O. Box 149
Pikeville, TN 37367

Web Site: 

http://www.pikeville-bledsoe.com

Office Office Holder Phone E-mail
County Mayor Mr. Greggory J Ridley (423) 447-6855 bledsoemayor@bledsoe.net
Administrator of Elections Lisa Wheeler (423)  447-2776  
Assessor of Property Zachary Olendorf (423)  653-2901 zach.olendorf@cot.tn.gov
Circuit Court Clerk Michael L Walker (423)  447-6488 michael.walker@tncourts.gov
Clerk & Master Debbie Debord (423)  447-2484 debbie.debord@tncourts.gov
County Clerk Genese A Sapp (423)  447-2137 genese.sapp@tn.gov
Director of Schools Jennifer Terry (423)  447-2914  
Hwy Chief Admin Off Robby B Roberson (423) 447-6216 bledsoehwy@bledsoe.net
Register of Deeds Emma A Boynton (423)  447-2020 eboynton@titlesearcher.com
Sheriff James L Morris (423)  447-2197 bcsd1201@bledsoe.net
Trustee Tracey Cagle (423)  447-2369 trustee@bledsoe.net

LDS Family History Library Reference Works

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On January 8, 2022

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This list was compiled before 2015.
For a current listing, visit the FamilySearch Catalogue.

Douthat, James L. Sequatchie Valley Bible Records Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, c1985, 34 p. includes index.

Douthat, James L. Sequatchie Families: biographical sketches of the earlier settlers of the Sequatchie Valley of Tennessee, Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, c1983, 111 p. leaves: ill., map, port. includes surname index.

Collier Cemetery, Bledsoe, TN 5 p. includes index & newspaper obituary notices.

Tombstone inscriptions, Bledsoe County, TN Nashville: TN State Library & Archives, micro-reproduction of ms.

Douthat, James L. 1830 Sequatchie Valley Census: Marion – Bledsoe Counties Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press 1986, includes index.

Douthat, James L. 1840 Sequatchie Valley Census: Marion – Bledsoe Counties Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press 1982, includes index.

Hutcherson, Willis Population schedule of the US census of 1850 for Bledsoe County TN Knoxville, TN Clinchdale Press, 1963, includes index.

Hobbs, Norma Dennis US Census Bledsoe County, TN, 1860 Dunlap, TN: N. Hobbs & S. Goins, 1986, 89 p, includes index. Has following info: household number in order of visitation, name of every person residing within the household as of the first of June, 1860, age, occupation, place of birth, property value and real value.

1870 census of Bledsoe County, TN transcribed by Kirkeminde Crossville, TN: PB Kirkeminde, 1980, includes index.

Goins, Sara Agee 1870 census of Bledsoe County, TN Dunlap, TN: Goins & Hobbs Genealogical Service 1986, includes index.

Sistler, Byron 1880 Census – Tennessee: transcription for Bledsoe County. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press 198?

Goins, Sara Agee Bledsoe County, TN, 1910 census includes index.

Goins, Sara Agee Bledsoe County, TN, 1920 census c 1994, includes index.

Methodism in Bledsoe County, 1833-1976 50 p: ill. This historical sketch of Methodism in Bledsoe County has been written by Mirima R. Stephens.

Baptist Church minutes, 1882-1938, Bledsoe County, TN prepared by the Historical Records Project Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1939, microfilm of typescript in Nashville, TN, includes index (currently on indefinite loan at Chattanooga TN FHC).

Bledsoe Co., TN, Chancery Court minutes Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press 19??, 254 p. reprint Contents 1836-1847. Library has 2 Vol. Only Circuit Court execution docket 1810-1824 Bledsoe Co., TN Circuit Court Minutes, 1834-1841, Bledsoe, County, TN Nashville: TN State Library & Archives 1969, 1 reel.

Tennessee. Circuit Court (Bledsoe Co.) Minutes 1841-1913 Nashville: TN State Library & Archives 1969 2 reels.

Raulston, J. Leonard Sequatchie: a story of the southern Cumberlands Knoxville, TN: University of TN Press c1974 p: ill., facsims., maps, ports., includes index.

Robnett, Elizabeth Parham Bledsoe County, Tennessee, a History Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, c1993, 282 p. : ill., facsim., map, ports, includes index.

Bledsoe County (Tennessee), Entry Taker Land entry book, 1868-1900 Nashville, TN: TN State Library & Archives, 1969, includes index for surnames A-D only.

Index Vol 1-4, 1797-1942 Deed Books Vol, A-D, 1808-1826 ; Vol F-H, 1829-1840 Vol I-L, 1840-1850 ; Vol M-N, 1854-1861; Vol. O-P, 1861-1878 ; Vol. Q-R, 1878-1885 Bledsoe County (Tennessee), Register of Deeds Deed Books, 1808-1885; index, 1797-1942 7 reels, includes index, reels on indefinite loan at McMinnville, TN.

Bledsoe County (Tennessee), Surveyors books, Vol A-E 1824-1878 1 reel of microfilm, made from originals, includes individual index in each volume, Volume E contains an index for Vol. A-E.

Deeds, 1807-1854, Bledsoe Co., TN prepared by the Historical Records Project 2 reels, microfilm of typescript at the TN State Library in Nashville, TN, includes index.

Hutcherson, Willis Tennessee homesteaders and landowners, fourth surveyors district, Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Overton, Rhea and Roane Counties; abstracts of survey book, 1808-1810, entry book, 1814-1815 c1964 107 p includes index, photocopy of original.

Blevins, Jerry Sequatchie Valley soldiers in the Civil War: Bledsoe, Grundy, Marion & Sequatchie Counties in TN & Jackson Co in Alabama, Huntsville, Ala: J. Blevins, 1990, viii, 274 p. ill., ports., bibliography, includes index.

Bledsoe County (Tennessee) Wills and Inventories, 1884-1931 Nashville: TN State Library & Archives, 1969, 1 reel, includes index.

Tennessee. County Court (Bledsoe County) Administrators, executors and guardians bonds and letters, 1909-1969 Nashville: TN State Library & Archives, 1969, 1 reel, includes index in each volume.

Douthat, James L. Bledsoe County, Tennessee, 1836 Tennessee civil districts and tax lists Spring Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, 1993; 54 p. ill., maps, includes index.

Vol 1-2 – 1908-1924 ; Vol. 3-4, 1924-1957 Bledsoe County (Tennessee) County Court Clerk Marriage records 1908-1957 Nashville.

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