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Bledsoe County, Tennessee

Bledsoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,913.[2] Its county seat is Pikeville.[3]

Bledsoe County

 United States

1807

Pikeville

407 sq mi (1,050 km2)

406 sq mi (1,050 km2)

0.3 sq mi (0.8 km2)  0.08%

14,913 Increase

36.73/sq mi (14.18/km2)

4th

History[edit]

Bledsoe County was formed in 1807 from land that was formerly Indian Land as well as land carved from Roane County. The county was named for Anthony Bledsoe (1739–1788), a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was an early settler of Sumner County. He was killed in an Indian attack at Bledsoe's Station.[4]


Like many East Tennessee counties, Bledsoe County opposed secession on the eve of the Civil War. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession on June 8, 1861, the county's residents voted against secession by a margin of 500 to 197.[5] General James G. Spears, a resident of Bledsoe, served as a vice president at the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention in May and June 1861, and fought for the Union Army in the war.[6]

(north)

Cumberland County

(east/EST Border)

Rhea County

(southeast/EST Border)

Hamilton County

(southwest)

Sequatchie County

(west)

Van Buren County

Recreation[edit]

Bledsoe County is home to a portion of Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park.

Prisons[edit]

Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) covers about 2,500 acres between Pikeville and Spencer. The prison is a level 3 facility which houses about 2,539 offenders in three separate facilities: Site 1; Site 2 (formerly Southeast Tennessee State Regional Correctional Facility); and Unit 28 (houses female offenders.)[15]

(county seat)

Pikeville

National Register of Historic Places listings in Bledsoe County, Tennessee

USS Bledsoe County (LST-356)

Bledsoe County Chamber of Commerce

TNGenweb

– genealogical resources

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