{"id":509,"date":"2022-01-10T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/?p=509"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:21:18","slug":"bledsoe-county-topography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/bledsoe-county-topography\/","title":{"rendered":"Bledsoe County Topography"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Bledsoe is divided into three distinct areas by nature&#8230;the Cumberland Plateau, Walden&#8217;s Ridge and the Sequatchie Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Cumberland Plateau was named for the Duke of Cumberland by Dr. Thomas Walker, a Virginian.&nbsp; Sequatchie\/Sequachee is of Cherokee origin and means &#8220;hog trough&#8221; or possibly opossum.&nbsp; There are two stories of the naming of Walden&#8217;s Ridge.&nbsp; One story supposes it is named for a hunter, John Walling who died there; the other suggests it was named for Elisha Walden.<\/p>\n<p>Many early settlers were farmers.&nbsp; The rich fertile land around the Sequatchie River provided the perfect environment for corn crops that were the mainstay of the settlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bledsoe is divided into three distinct areas by nature&#8230;the Cumberland Plateau, Walden&#8217;s Ridge and the Sequatchie Valley. The Cumberland Plateau was named for the Duke of Cumberland by Dr. Thomas Walker, a Virginian.&nbsp; Sequatchie\/Sequachee is of Cherokee origin and means &#8220;hog trough&#8221; or possibly opossum.&nbsp; There are two stories of the naming of Walden&#8217;s Ridge.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography-topography","category-local-information"],"modified_by":"TNGenWeb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}