Joseph Hardin

Joseph Hardin was born in Virginia and moved to North Carolina in 1772. During the Revolutionary War, he fought at King's Mountain and elsewhere in the South. In 1785 he was Speaker of the House of the State of Franklin, and in 1794 he was a member of the Territorial Assembly. After the war, he received a 3000-acre land grant within the present boundaries of Hardin County, where family members and friends settled in 1816. When the county was created in 1819, it was named for him.

Savannah, Tennessee · United States