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County
Formation in Acts
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Sequatchie County
ACTS
OF TENNESSEE 1857-58, CHAPTER 11: "An Act to establish the
County of Sequatchie, in this state, and to change the county
lines between the counties of Grundy and Franklin, Marshall and
Lincoln, Hardeman and McNairy."
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED
BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, That a new
county is hereby established, by the name of Sequatchie, and
formed out of the county of Hamilton, and bounded as follows:
beginning on a white oak, at the head waters of the middle prong
of Collins' River, near John Lockheart's, being a corner of Marion
and Grundy counties; thence southerly three-fourths of a mile, to
a small white oak; thence easterly to the bluff of Cumberland
mountains, opposite T. Hick's, and opposite Hendrick's Creek;
thence following the meanders of Hendrick's Creek, formerly the
southern boundary line of the second district of Marion County, to
Sequatchie River, thence following the meanders of said river to
Standifer's Creek; thence up said creek to its source, near Henry
Grayson's mill; thence south-easterly, up Walden's Ridge, to the
Hamilton County old line, (which is supposed to divide Walden's
Ridge in the centre); thence north-easterly with said line, to a
poplar, on the Hamilton and Bledsoe County line; thence
north-westerly to a lot line, which lot line was the north
boundary of the tenth district of Bledsoe County; thence following
the course of said lot line to Brush Creek, to its intersection
with the Bledsoe and Van Buren county lines, near J. Hitchcock's;
thence south-westerly, with the Van Buren line, to a white oak on
the old Savage Road, being a corner of Van Buren, Grundy and
Hamilton (formerly Marion) counties; thence southerly to the
beginning corner, with the county line between Grundy and
Hamilton, (formerly Marion).
SECTION
2. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, ............ (Continued)
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