Grundy County / Marion County

Grundy County was established in 1844 and named in honor of Felix Grundy of Virginia, who served as chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, a representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1811 to 1814, a U.S. senator from 1829 to 1838, and attorney general in President Van Buren's cabinet; at the time of his death in 1840, he was again a U.S. senator. Marion County was established in 1817 and named in honor of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion, a Revolutionary leader in South Carolina whose brilliantly successful guerilla tactics earned him the title "The Swamp Fox."

Monteagle, Tennessee · United States