Shelbyville, TN is the county seat of Bedford County, Tennessee, and is located a little over 50 miles southeast of Nashville. Known as the Walking Horse Capital of the Word, the Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horse is crowned at Shelbyville’s TWH National Celebration annually. 

Shelbyville is known as The Pencil City because of its historical importance to pencil manufacturing, although today more “writing instruments” than pencils are produced here. 

Shelbyville has a favorable business climate and is a center in south-central Tennessee for manufacturing (Calsonic Kansei, Sanford Corporation, Bemis Custom Products, Cebal America, Jostens, and many others), agri-business (Tyson Foods), and distribution.