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Telford is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Washington County, Tennessee, United States, located along with Jonesborough and Limestone. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 921. The community is share of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the “Tri-Cities” region. It has one school, Grandview Elementary.

The community was called Millwood in early era and continued thus for many years. It was not until 1855, when Colonel George Whitfield Telford, a acknowledge senator who operated the Telford Manufacturing Company, donated roughly four acres of estate to support local operations of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, that the state Millwood was distorted to Telford Depot. At a date sometime after 1876 the word “Depot” was discontinued and the single herald Telford adopted.

During the Civil War, citizens of this ration of Washington County voted to secede from the Confederacy, but they were bungled in persuading others to do so. The independent nation called “Bricker’s Republic” soon fell into relative obscurity. A Civil War battle took place in Telford on September 8, 1863, when the 100th Ohio Infantry clashed with the Confederate-aligned Thomas’ Legion just east of the depot. The Confederate force was supported by 4-Howitzer artillery unit commanded by General Alfred “Mudwall” Jackson.