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unusual facts about Chestnut Ridge, 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.

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.

Conemaugh River

It flows generally WNW, in a winding course through the mountains along the northern edge of Laurel Hill and Chestnut Ridge.

Conococheague Formation

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

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.

Gapsville, Pennsylvania

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

Green Meadow Waldorf School

Green Meadow Waldorf School (GMWS) is an independent Waldorf school located in Chestnut Ridge, Rockland County, New York.

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.


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