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6 unusual facts about Bedford County


Bedford County, Tennessee

The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County into two.

Bedford County, Virginia

The county is named for John Russell, the fourth Duke of Bedford, who was a Secretary of State of Great Britain.

Curt Cobb

Curt Cobb (born December 28, 1971) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 62nd district, which encompasses Bedford County and parts of Lincoln County and Rutherford County.

David Hubbard

Born near the town of Old Liberty (now Bedford), Bedford County, Virginia, Hubbard attended the county schools and an academy.

Eddie Edmonson

Earl Edward Edmonson was born on November 20, 1889 in Hopewell, Pennsylvania.

Providence Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania

In 1854 the township split into East Providence and West Providence Townships.


Charles T. Carpenter

Charles Thomas Carpenter, born December 9, 1858 in Bedford County, Tennessee, died February 22, 1945 at Montgomery County, Kansas, was a pioneer banker who was taken hostage by the Dalton Gang in their last raid, October 5, 1892, in Coffeyville, Kansas.

Conococheague Formation

Thrombolites and the possible chiton Matthevia are present in the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry in Bedford County, Virginia.

Gapsville, Pennsylvania

Gapsville is an unincorporated community in East Providence Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, south of Breezewood.

International Tour de Toona

The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania.

Jim Nance McCord

McCord was born in Unionville in Bedford County, Tennessee, the second of seven children of Thomas McCord, a farmer, and Iva (Steele) McCord.

June Atkinson

Dr. Atkinson grew up in rural Bedford County, Virginia, where she attended public schools and graduated from Staunton River High School, Moneta, Virginia, in 1966.

Marshall County, Tennessee

Marshall County was created in 1836 from parts of Giles, Bedford, Lincoln and Maury counties, and was named after the American jurist, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

WFXR

This airs on UHF channel 20.2 (or virtual channel 21.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Thaxton Mountain in unincorporated Bedford County.

William J. Gilmore

Gilmore was born in Bedford County, Virginia, son of Dr. Eli Gilmore and Clarissa Mosby Clayton, sister of a prominent Mississippi judge, later a member of the Confederate Congress, Alexander Mosby Clayton.

Wood Boulden

In his early youth, he attended a private school in Richmond and later entered New London Academy in Bedford County, Virginia.


see also

Evitts

Evitts Mountain, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and Allegany County, Maryland

New Enterprise

New Enterprise Public School, in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania

Northern Bedford County Middle/High School

Northern Bedford County Middle/High School (commonly NBC) is a coeducational combination public middle school and public secondary school in Loysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving students in grades 612.

Virginia State Route 24

SR 24 continues east as a two-lane road through the southern Bedford County community of Chamblissburg and Meads Store.