Sumner County, Tennessee

About Sumner County, Tennessee

”Sumner County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 160,645. Its county seat is Gallatin, and its largest city is Hendersonville. The county is named for American Revolutionary War hero General Jethro Sumner.Sumner County is part of the Nashville-Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area.HistorySumner County was created in 1786, when Tennessee was still a part of North Carolina. Prior to European colonization, the county had been inhabited by Native Americans for several thousand years. Nomadic Paleo and Archaic hunter-gatherer campsites, as well as substantial Woodland and Mississippian period occupation sites and burial grounds can be found scattered throughout the county. The majority of these sites exist along natural waterways, with the highest concentration occurring along the Cumberland River. Mississippian period mounds can still be seen in Hendersonville, and most notably, at Castilian Springs. Longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following pre-existing Indian and Buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, several outposts had been erected. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a salt lick at modern Goodlettsville, another was Bledsoe's Station, built by Isaac Bledsoe at Castalian Springs. Read more

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