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Montgomery County, TennesseeMontgomery County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameNamed in honor of John Montgomery (?-1794), explorer, Revolutionary War officer, signer of the Cumberland Compact, founder of Clarksville, Nickajack Expedition commander who was killed by Indians in Kentucky. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts History of Montgomery CountyCreated 1796 from Tennessee County; named in honor of John Montgomery (?-1794), explorer, Revolutionary War officer, signer of the Cumberland Compact, founder of Clarksville, Nickajack Expedition commander who was killed by Indians in Kentucky. Montgomery County was formed in 1796 from Tennessee County There were fires at the Montgomery County courthouse in 1878 & 1900, and a tornado in 1999. Long before the dawn of written history, humans inhabited the lands along the Cumberland and Red Rivers. In
successive order Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian Indians left evidence of their occupancy in this
area. In the eighteenth century John Donelson led a flotilla of flatboats on a historic journey on the Tennessee and
Cumberland Rivers through the area. An excerpt from Donelson's journal notes that on April 12, 1780, Moses Renfroe
and company took leave of the main party, ascended the Red River and made a short-lived settlement upstream. Find more from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: MONTGOMERY COUNTY GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 544 square miles (1,409 kmē), of which, 539
square miles (1,397 kmē) of it is land and 5 square miles (12 kmē) of it (0.84%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."  |
