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July 14, 1876 THE LYNChlJBURG S~NTINEL
Historical Sketch of r.100RE COUNTY, TENN.
Read before the County Court Monday July 3, 1876
Lynchburg ·, Tenn. , July 3, 1876
To tne Hon. County Court: --By a resolution of Congress, adopted some months
ago, : each county in the United States was requested to have delivered on
the 4th of July, 1876, an address giving a brief, historical sketch of their
county from its for~ation up to the present time. The object of this was
to have placed on record a history of the various counties co~posing the
States of the Union, at the close of the first century of our existence as
a government. Arrangeme~ts to comply with the request have been made in
many counties. No steps ~ having been taken to do so in this county, the
undersigned present to you the following brief and hastily _prepared sketch,
giving a few of the principal facts in our county's history, which, if you
deem worthy, you will please accept.
Respectfully,
Abe Frizzell,
VI. 'fl. Gordon.
For quite a long time a large number of the citizens of the north-eastern
portion of Lincoln, the north -western portion of Franklin, the southern
part of Coffee, and the south-eastern end of Bedford counties, Middle Tennessee,
had been anxious to form a new county, composed of the factions of the
old counties in which they respectively lived. The principal reasons which
prompted them to desire the formation of this new county were as follows:
lst. They were so far removed from the several county seats of the old counties--
they residing from ll to 24 miles from Fayetteville in Lincoln, Winchester
in Franklin, Shelbyville in Bedford, and Manchester in Coffee.
2d. They were provided with no public conveyance from their homes to the
respective countyseats of the old counties.
Jd . The large majority of the roads over which they had to travel wereexceedingly
rough, and at some seasons of the year, almost impassable-they
being located through such rough and rugged country, and generally
thinly populated, that good roads could not be kept up by the old counties,
each of which being large and h~ving so great a nu~ber of public roads to keep
in good order, and the people of the district asking a new county believing
that they could, having a smaller territory, establish and }~eep up an ~mple
number of good public roads to their county seat.
4th. The majority of the citizens of Franklin County, living on the westside
of Elk River, which lay between them and Winchester, were very greatly
discommoded on account of the fact that there were no bridges for their
accommodation across the river , and but few ferries that were at all
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| Title | Lynchburg092 1 |
| Transcript | I 1 I ) ] July 14, 1876 THE LYNChlJBURG S~NTINEL Historical Sketch of r.100RE COUNTY, TENN. Read before the County Court Monday July 3, 1876 Lynchburg ·, Tenn. , July 3, 1876 To tne Hon. County Court: --By a resolution of Congress, adopted some months ago, : each county in the United States was requested to have delivered on the 4th of July, 1876, an address giving a brief, historical sketch of their county from its for~ation up to the present time. The object of this was to have placed on record a history of the various counties co~posing the States of the Union, at the close of the first century of our existence as a government. Arrangeme~ts to comply with the request have been made in many counties. No steps ~ having been taken to do so in this county, the undersigned present to you the following brief and hastily _prepared sketch, giving a few of the principal facts in our county's history, which, if you deem worthy, you will please accept. Respectfully, Abe Frizzell, VI. 'fl. Gordon. For quite a long time a large number of the citizens of the north-eastern portion of Lincoln, the north -western portion of Franklin, the southern part of Coffee, and the south-eastern end of Bedford counties, Middle Tennessee, had been anxious to form a new county, composed of the factions of the old counties in which they respectively lived. The principal reasons which prompted them to desire the formation of this new county were as follows: lst. They were so far removed from the several county seats of the old counties-- they residing from ll to 24 miles from Fayetteville in Lincoln, Winchester in Franklin, Shelbyville in Bedford, and Manchester in Coffee. 2d. They were provided with no public conveyance from their homes to the respective countyseats of the old counties. Jd . The large majority of the roads over which they had to travel wereexceedingly rough, and at some seasons of the year, almost impassable-they being located through such rough and rugged country, and generally thinly populated, that good roads could not be kept up by the old counties, each of which being large and h~ving so great a nu~ber of public roads to keep in good order, and the people of the district asking a new county believing that they could, having a smaller territory, establish and }~eep up an ~mple number of good public roads to their county seat. 4th. The majority of the citizens of Franklin County, living on the westside of Elk River, which lay between them and Winchester, were very greatly discommoded on account of the fact that there were no bridges for their accommodation across the river , and but few ferries that were at all _j ~ CJZ.\tt"~K- ~~IAf,Df\1 Rtl«N\~Ntr ~Hl!: L-~~~~ |
