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Bedford County Historical Key Events and
Dates
- First courthouse built about 1810,
Shelbyville settlement already began
- Postal service began in 1811
- Second courthouse completed in 1813
(later destroyed by tornado of 1830)
- Full company of county volunteers
fought in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 (War of 1812)
- First newspaper, The Tennessee
Herald, began publication in 1816
- Shelbyville officially incorporated
on October 7th, 1819
- Great tornado struck in 1830
- First bridge across Duck River built
in 1832
- Asiatic cholera epidemic struck in
1833
- Third courthouse completed in 1833
(later destroyed by Confederate troops in 1863)
- Full company of volunteers fought in
the Mexican War of 1846
- Railroad service chartered on January
19, 1850 and reached Shelbyville in 1852
- Sylvan Cotton Mills founded in 1852
(Uniroyal began operation in 1939)
- Many companies of soldiers volunteer
to serve in the War Between the States from 1861 - 1865
- Shelbyville Savings Bank founded in
1867
- Rock House Jail built in 1867
- Fourth courthouse completed in 1873
(later destroyed by fire set by riot mob in 1934)
- Great floods in 1902, 1929, 1948
- Typhoid fever outbreak in 1915
(eventually results in closure of Big Springs)
- Bedford Cedar Company founded in 1916
(groundwork for Shelbyville being known as "Pencil City")
- First Tennessee Walking Horse
National Celebration held (1939)
- First hospital opened in 1924
(new facilities opened in 1952 and again in 2008)
- Fifth courthouse completed in 1935
(remodeled in 1968)
- Urban renewal
revitalized down town Shelbyville in 1969
- County celebrated bicentennial
anniversary in 2007
- Shelbyville bicentennial
celebrated in 2010
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