Boundaries - Historical Notes

The following is a summary of acts which authorized boundary changes for Sequatchie County.

1. Public Acts of 1877, Chapter 138, further changed the boundary lines between Marion County and Sequatchie County with a lengthy metes and bounds description of the changes wrought in the act. It was further stated that the sheriff of Marion County, on the first Thursday in April next, was to hold an election to allow the qualified voters of Marion County to decide if said territory in the act was to be moved from Marion to Sequatchie County. Two-thirds vote was needed to detach the territory from Marion to Sequatchie County
2. Public Acts of 1883, Chapter 82, rearranged the lines between Sequatchie County and Hamilton County so that all the lands of L. B. Jones would be wholly included in Hamilton County. The said Jones was required to have a survey made at his personal expense and to file a plat of the property in both counties before the move would take place officially.
3. Public Acts of 1887, Chapter 103, recited in the preamble to the Act that a tract of land known as the Big Opening, entered by Gideon Bouldin and now owned by Thomas S. Myers and A. C. Myers, three-fourths of which was in Sequatchie County and one-fourth was in Van Buren County. This Act moved the one-fourth out of Van Buren County and into Sequatchie County as the present owners desired it to be.
4. Acts of 1903, Chapter 562, transferred the tract of land known as the Mount Airy Farm which was owned by W. B. Pope, out of Sequatchie County and into Bledsoe County.