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Bradley Junction’s post office opened in 1910

Most of Bradley Junction was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970.

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How Bradley Junction began

When was Bradley Junction founded?

1910

The Bradley Junction post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 542116 years
Founding year: the first Bradley Junction post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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How Bradley Junction came to be

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Bradley Junction is named for the railroad junction located in the community, which was historically the junction between the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (the east-west track) and the Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway (the north-south track). The junction itself is named after phosphate mining company executive Peter B. Bradley, who chartered the Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway in 1905. The railroad junction still exists today and both lines are now owned by CSX Transportation. In the mid 1990s, the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum (now the Florida Railroad Museum) moved the railroad station from Bradley Junction to Parrish. The depot was then consumed by a fire soon after the move.

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Timeline

Bradley Junction, 1910 to 1950

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Bradley Junction post office opens
  3. 1950Post officeThe Bradley Junction post office closes
  4. 1950Post officeThe Bradley post office opens
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Bradley Junction, decade by decade

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Famous people close to Bradley Junction

Nobody well known was born in Bradley Junction itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Faith EvansAmerican singer · b. 1973
Ashley MoodyUnited States Senator from Florida since 2025 · b. 1975
Dwayne BaconAmerican basketball player · b. 1995
Kara MonacoAmerican model · b. 1983
Lawton ChilesAmerican politician · b. 1930
Michael TomaselloAmerican developmental psychologist · b. 1950
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Bradley Junction had its own post office from 1910 to 1950.

Bradley Junction
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Bradley Junction’s history

What year was Bradley Junction founded?

The Bradley Junction post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.