Bradley County history

General Meigs served in the Revolutionary War and was an aide to General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812.

In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, striking a significant blow to the relations between the United States and the Cherokee nation.

Following the Indian Removal Act of 1831, Meigs IV accompanied his wife West on the Trail of Tears.

Georgia (1832) determined that the Cherokee nation was independent from the United States and that the state of Georgia had no jurisdiction over Cherokee lands.

In 1836 Bradley County, Tennessee was established.

In 1842, after a vote among its citizens, Bradley County reported to the Tennessee State Legislature that this would be the site of the city of Cleveland.

In 1844 the Democratic Party of Cleveland was established.

Cleveland’s first railway mail system was established in 1868, thereby connecting its communications to the major cities of Tennessee and the United States at-large.

Here, in 1898, are some of the employees of Cleveland’s Harwick Stove Company. (PHOTO: Museum at Five Points)

Pictured above is the downtown Cleveland Post Office under construction in 1910.

A Chamber of Commerce in Bradley County was first organized in Cleveland in 1919 to encourage development of the area.

The Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce was founded in October 1925 as the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.

What are the names of the Cleveland-area companies whose workers went on strike in June 1937?