Another name for the bledsoas lick in tennessee
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Bledsoe's Station, also known as Bledsoe's Fort, was an 18th-century, fortified, frontier, white settlement located in what is now Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee. Other names, Isaac Bledsoe, Jr. The spring that furnished the minerals for Bledsoe's Lick flows at the base of the hill a few hundred yards east of.
Castalian Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in In the early 19th century, it was known locally as Bledsoe's Lick, and was the location of that protects the site of the 18th-century Bledsoe's Station and several other historic structures Geographic Names Information System.
Description:It was the largest defeat suffered at the hands of the Indians by the settlers along the Cumberland and was the only one of their forts to fall to a siege. Isaac Bledsoe also served in the French and Indian War, and following the long hunting excursions of the early s, Bledsoe joined William Christian's punitive expedition against the Cherokee. European-American exploration and hunting expeditions[ edit ] Among the first documented English-American explorers, in the Upper Cumberland region, were the long hunters , so-called, because of the long duration of their hunting expeditions. The north side Sumner County borders the south boundary of the State of Kentucky.
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