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Shelbyville

Tennessee, United States
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Shelbyville, city, seat (1809) of Bedford county, south-central Tennessee, U.S. It lies along the Duck River, some 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Nashville. Laid out as the county seat in 1809, it was named for Colonel Isaac Shelby, the American Revolutionary War leader of a force of riflemen against the British at the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780). It developed as a trading centre for the agricultural produce of the Duck River valley. Shelbyville,...

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