Marshall County is a county located in Tennessee. Its county seat is Lewisburg. As of 2000, the population was around 26k.
Marshall County is the home of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association. Another native of Marshall County is the fainting goat. To celebrate this unique breed, the county holds an annual festival known as Goats, Music and More drawing visitors from around the world.
Citizens from Bedford, Lincoln, Maury, and Giles counties petitioned the Tennessee General Assembly in 1825 to from a new county from portions of the aforementioned counties. The citizens stated that the distance from their courthouses was too far to service the citizens of those communities. On February 20, 1836 the Tennessee Legislature voted in favor of forming a new county called Marshall. The county was named after the American jurist, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Most records show that the majority of early settlers were farmers.
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