{"id":602,"date":"2022-01-11T02:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/?p=602"},"modified":"2022-01-11T02:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T08:19:21","slug":"important-dates-chronology-of-early-bledsoe-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/important-dates-chronology-of-early-bledsoe-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Dates &#8211; Chronology of Early Bledsoe County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from Elizabeth Robnett, Bledsoe County Historian<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Event<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1795<\/td>\n<td>John McClellan and Charles McClung explore the northern part of Sequatchie Valley.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1796<\/td>\n<td>Tennessee becomes the 16th state<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1801<\/td>\n<td>Roane County, which contained most of Bledsoe, is created.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1805<\/td>\n<td>Cherokee Nation surrenders claims to the area that is now Bledsoe County<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1807<\/td>\n<td>Bledsoe County established<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1811<\/td>\n<td>Madison becomes the county seat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1812<\/td>\n<td>War of 1812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1816<\/td>\n<td>Town of Pikeville established; county seat relocated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1821<\/td>\n<td>First Bledsoe Courthouse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1830<\/td>\n<td>Pikeville incorporated as a town<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1838<\/td>\n<td>Trail of Tears crossed Bledsoe County about 5 miles south of Pikeville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1856<\/td>\n<td>1st, 2nd, and 3rd civil districts taken from Bledsoe County to become part of Cumberland County<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1857<\/td>\n<td>10th Civil District taken from Bledsoe to become part of Sequatchie County<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1861 &#8211; 1865<\/td>\n<td>Civil War. Tennessee secedes from the Union, and joins the Confederate States of America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1866<\/td>\n<td>Tennessee re-admitted to the Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1891<\/td>\n<td><em>Pikeville-Banner<\/em> begins publication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1909<\/td>\n<td>Courthouse fire destroys some records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Elizabeth Robnett, Bledsoe County Historian Date Event 1795 John McClellan and Charles McClung explore the northern part of Sequatchie Valley. 1796 Tennessee becomes the 16th state 1801 Roane County, which contained most of Bledsoe, is created. 1805 Cherokee Nation surrenders claims to the area that is now Bledsoe County 1807 Bledsoe County established 1811 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,39,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-bledsoe-county","category-civil-war-history","category-local-information","category-research-aids"],"modified_by":"TNGenWeb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}