Sumner_County%2C_TennesseeSumner County was created by an act of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina in November 1786. The county was named for American_RevolutionRevolutionary War soldier Jethro SumnerColonial Jethro Sumner. Gallatin was established in 1802 as the permanent county seat. The town was named after Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury to Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Andrew Jackson became one of the first to purchase a lot when the town was surveyed and platted in 1803. That same year, the first courthouse and jail were built. In 1815, the town was first incorporated and would later function under a Charter established by a 1953 Private Act of the State Legislature. At the beginning of the American_Civil_WarCivil War, the citizens of Gallatin were mostly opposed to secession from the United StatesUnion. Eventually, the citizens placed their nearly unanimous support in the Confederate_States_of_AmericaConfederacy. When fighting began in April 1861, soldiers from Sumner County began joining ranks. The Union Army first captured Gallatin in February 1862. In July, John Hunt MorganGeneral John Hunt Morgan recaptured Gallatin and held it until Confederate forces fell back to Chattanooga. Gallatin was left with occupational forces after the war. Upon their departure, the area returned to being a small southern community with steady growth. The area was primarily agricultural until mid-century. By 1970, industrialization resulted in only half of the county population being considered rural. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin%2C_Tennessee