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Museums & Archives

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The Museum & Cultural Center at 5ive Points in Cleveland houses a variety of displays.  Click here for information. The Hiwassee River Heritage Center provides history and cultural information and exhibits for the area.  Click here for information. The Bradley … Continue reading →

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Manuscript Collection at Cleveland Public Library History Branch

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compiled and contributed by Barbara Fagen (date unspecified) Mss 1 Family history files compiled by students of Mrs. George E. Westerburg. Bradley High School. Cleveland, Tenn., (ca. 1937). 1. Osment family 2. Boone family 3. Still family 4. Stockburger family … Continue reading →

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Scoggins Family

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contributed by Randy Alford James P. Scoggins b. 17 July 1839, in McMinn Co., TN; d. 1914, Garland, Dallas Co., TX; bur. Lyons Cemetery, Garland, Dallas Co., TX.  James was the son of Burgis “Bird” Scoggins, Jr. and Rebecca Gold … Continue reading →

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Thatch Family

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We recommend you search (link in right-hand menu) for numerous Thatch references in various records posted on this site.   Click here to read Thomas Early Thatch’s booklet, Brief Sketch of a Country Neighborhood in Bradley County, Eight Miles South … Continue reading →

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Cobb Family History: Memories of Early Bradley County

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transcribed and contributed by: Danny Williams (see footnote) The following letter is on file at the Oklahoma Historical Society. by Isabel Cobb (born 1858) In February 1870 our father Jos. B. Cobb sold his farm on Candy’s Creek, E. Tenn., … Continue reading →

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Obituary of Cornish Native Mrs. Elizabeth Nankivell, July, 1909

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transcribed from microfilm and contributed by Susan Langheld Newspaper:  Cleveland Journal & Banner Date:  7/23/1909 MRS. ELIZABETH NANKIVELL Mrs. Elizabeth Nankivell, wife of James Nankivell, of Ducktown, died Tuesday morning, after a short illness. Deceased was born at Pretin Port, … Continue reading →

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Brown Brothers Citizenship Application, 1909

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transcribed and contributed by Susan Langheld (date unidentified) Newspaper:  Journal & Banner Date:  07/02/1909 Citizenship Brown Brothers David Brown and William A. Brown, natives of Lanarke county, Scotland, but now residing in the second district of Bradley county, have made … Continue reading →

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Goodspeed’s History of Bradley County (1887)

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[Transcriber and contributor unidentified. Note paragraph breaks were inserted in long passages to make text more-readable.] From Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketches of from Twenty-Five to … Continue reading →

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Thatch’s “Brief Sketch of a Country Neighborhood” — Name Index

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[See source attribution and transcriber’s notes at end.] Brief Sketch of a Country Neighborhood in Bradley County, Eight Miles South of Cleveland, Tennessee Including the First Settlers and Present Citizens: Their Mode of Living in the Past and the Present … Continue reading →

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Thatch’s “Brief Sketch of a Country Neighborhood” — Chapter 7

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[See source attribution and transcriber’s notes at end.] Brief Sketch of a Country Neighborhood in Bradley County, Eight Miles South of Cleveland, Tennessee Including the First Settlers and Present Citizens: Their Mode of Living in the Past and the Present … Continue reading →

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