Blountsville Court Square Timeline

1813: Colonel John Coffee and 800 Tennessee Volunteers see Bear Meat Cabin Cherokee Settlement near Blountsville

1816: Town settles around square

1820: Newly named Blountsville becomes county seat

1827: Town incorporated with Trustee System

1833: First courthouse built

1853: Town incorporated with new system; immediately ...

Blountsville

1820-1889 seat of Blount County a county older than the State.

Named for Tennessee Governor W. G. Blount who sent Andrew Jackson to aid Alabama settlers in Creek Indian War, 1812-1814.

Indian Chief Bear Meat lived here at crossing of old Indian ...

Blountsville

On Nov. 18, 1864, Blair’s 17th Corps of the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman’s army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (12 mi. NW ...

Blountsville

On Nov. 18, 1864, Blair’s 17th Corps of the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman’s army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (12 mi. NW ...