Unionvillle, Bedford County, Tennessee
Unionville, situated in the Eleventh
District, twelve miles northwest from Shelbyville, has a
population of about 200, and is one of the most prosperous towns
in Bedford County. Unionville was founded in about 1827 upon the
lands of Meredith Blanton and James Roy, and derived its name
from the uniting of two post offices and establishing the same
at that point.
In 1828 Meredith Blanton erected a
blacksmith shop, which shop has been operated continually from
that time to the present by the Blanton family, and is now owned
by two grandsons of M. Blanton.
The first business in the town was
transacted by the firm of McGaffin, Rushing & Covington, who had
a general store.
Early Business Men
William Collins
Blanton & Keller
Duggan, Moon & Barnes |
Little, Brown & Deason
F. S. Smith |
Merchants 1860-1870
Ganaway. Clary &
Co.
McCord & Ogilvie
Atkinson & McCord
Peter Barnes
Williams & Landis |
Williams & Moon
Landis & Bro.
Ganaway & Henden
Duggan & Henden
B. F. Duggan |
J. M. Moon
McLane & Bro.
Winsett & McLane
Winsett & Elkton
Winsett & Covington |
Merchants 1870-1880
Duggan & Clark
Duggan & Sons
T. N. McCord
J. A. Ganaway
Landis & Winsett
Covington & Landis |
W. A. Ott
J. Covington
J. M. Moon
B. F. Duggan
H. R. Frierson |
Merchants of 1880
T. N. McCord
Blanton & Blanton
J. Covington |
Covington & Blanton
H. R. Frierson
H. R. Freeman |
Physicians of Unionville and Vicinity
Present doctors:
Drs. B. F. Duggan, S. S. Duggan and G. L. Landis
Churches
Methodist
Protestant Church, erected in 1840 of logs, and rebuilt of
frame on the same site in 1868, at a cost of about $1,600.
Methodist Episcopal Church
South, frame building, erected in 1856, and cost about $900.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
frame, erected in 1876, and cost $1,600.
Christian Church, erected in
1878 at a cost of $1,000.
Schools
The schools of the town consist of a
chartered academy, at which school is taught ten months in the
year, and the colored free school.
AHGP Tennessee
Source: History of Tennessee, Goodspeed
Publishing Company, 1886.
|
