The Veterans Memorial Plaza is conceived and designed to honor, commemorate and forever remember the veterans of Bedford County Tennessee who have served in the armed forces throughout the world. It is to recognize the sacrifices these brave men . . . — — Map (db m85709) WM
Governor of Tennessee for three successive terms 1939-1945. A native of Bedford County and graduate of Webb School, Princeton and Harvard Law School, he was Attorney General of the 8th Judicial Circuit, a member of the 63rd and 70th General . . . — — Map (db m25868) HM
Born in Bedford County on March 17, 1879, Governor McCord had an active private career as a merchant, an auctioneer, and newspaper publisher. In public life he served as a Representative to the United States Congress, 1943-1945; Governor of . . . — — Map (db m151101) HM
Union Forces Cyrus Livingston Dunham was born in Dryden, New York, on January 16, 1817. In 1841 he moved to Salem, Indiana, where he practiced law and served as a Democratic congressman. He entered the Union service in 1861 as Colonel of the . . . — — Map (db m81888) HM
Mary Shirley, who was born on 17 February 1762, married William McGuire on 23 February 1778 in Virginia. During the Revolutionary War William and Mary McGuire with son Michael were taken prisoner on 26 June 1780 and moved from Virginia to Montreal, . . . — — Map (db m262420) HM
Nathan Bedford Forrest was born in Bedford County Tennessee, July 13, 1821. He was the eldest of nine children born to William and Mariam Beck Forrest. At the age of sixteen, Forrest took on the responsibilities of providing for the family after . . . — — Map (db m253891) HM
Recognized during his lifetime primarily as a chemist, teacher, and administrator at Fisk University, Thomas W. Talley (1870- 1952) was also Tennessee's first African-American folklorist. A native of Bedford County, he began collecting folk songs . . . — — Map (db m5507) HM
From June 24th to June 27th, the Union Army of the Cumberland had moved flawlessly to maneuver the Confederate Army of Tennessee out of its position south of the Highland Rim. As Rosecrans would later say, only heavy rains had prevented a complete . . . — — Map (db m207282) HM
(Front of Kiosk): Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the Civil War's greatest cavalry generals. His ferocity as a warrior and his claim to have slain one more enemy soldier in personal combat than the 29 horses killed beneath him made him a . . . — — Map (db m20506) HM
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In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman’s supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman’s “March to the . . . — — Map (db m75016) HM
The first Bedford County public school for African-Americans was known as 'Slip up'. Between 1889 and 1894, 27 schools for African American (mostly one-teacher) were established in various Bedford County communities. Organized in 1895, McAdams was . . . — — Map (db m263119) HM
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Shelbyville — “Little Boston”
Shelbyville, Tennessee, better known as “Little Boston,” was a hotbed of Unionist sentiment throughout the war. When William Rosecrans' Union army captured the town, they were welcomed as . . . — — Map (db m191662) HM
In Memory of Captain William Kimbro; commanded a company at San Jacinto; came to Texas in 1831; born in Tennessee; died in Anderson County, September 14, 1856. — — Map (db m285717) HM
Elisha Adam Euless (1848-1911) migrated to Texas in 1867 from Bedford county, Tennessee and settled in Tarrant
County. In July 1870 Euless married Judy Ann Trigg, also a Tennessee native. He began farming and bought land in 1871. Euless was . . . — — Map (db m228320) HM
This Monument Was erected by the liberality of the Citizens of the County of Sumner to the memory of her Patriotic Sons: who sacrificed their lives in the defense of the Flag of their country in the war with Mexico. In 1846. 1847 & 1848. . . . — — Map (db m85162) WM
The Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike Co. was incorporated in 1818 to build a turnpike from Lynchburg west to Salem. The road reached Liberty (now Bedford) in 1828 and was completed to Salem in 1836. In Bedford County, covered bridges spanned the Big . . . — — Map (db m18830) HM
Settlers from Bedford County, Tennessee, came to this area in the 1870s. Weldon Wiles Bobo opened a store and grist mill, and several families established New Hope Church in 1874, also using the building as a school. The post office opened in . . . — — Map (db m188497) HM
On the evening of June 15, 1864, the lead element of Union Gen. David Hunter’s 18,000-man army arrived here and cam near Avenel. The main force arrived the following morning and started destroying the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad tracks, burning . . . — — Map (db m41408) HM
Moore County Established 1871; named in honor of
Major Gen. William Moore
He settled in Tennessee in 1808, coming from Kentucky. Commanded a company in the Creek War; finished the War of 1812 as a Major General. Member of the State House . . . — — Map (db m61915) HM
Born on March 3, 1916 and raised in his father’s ancestral home of Bedford County, Tennessee, Austin C. Shofner forever changed World War II.
When World War II commenced for the United States in 1941, Capt. Shofner fought as a company . . . — — Map (db m214902) HM
The 1804 Iddings House is the oldest structure on its original site in Miami County. A second generation American and cousin to General “Mad” Anthony Wayne, Benjamin Iddings brought his wife, Phoebe, and six of their ten children up the Stillwater . . . — — Map (db m18429) HM
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After the Battle of Stones River ended on January 2, 1863, Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans occupied Murfreesboro. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg withdrew south to the Highland Rim to protect the rail junction at Tullahoma, Bragg's . . . — — Map (db m85714) HM
In November 1809, thirteen years after
Tennessee became a state, settlers of
lower Bedford County saw the need to
establish a new county which resulted
in an act being passed by the General
Assembly in Knoxville that a county,
to be called . . . — — Map (db m191646) HM
The land that is now Bedford Plantation subdivision was once part of 640 acres owned by Julian Bedford (1825-1879), and Virginia R. Kenney
Bedford (1830-1916), who settled in 1851 at what was
to be known as the Bailey Station community.
They . . . — — Map (db m149053) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
