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History · New Market

New Market’s post office opened in 1839, and 51% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1900.

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How New Market began

When was New Market founded?

1839

The New Market post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 182 in 19002020 census: 88187 years
Founding year: the first New Market post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about New Market’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of New Market are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of New Market’s homes were built before 1938.Deep rootsA post office since 1839: 187 years of New Market.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Market’s history is told.

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The story

How New Market came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New Market.

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New Market was originally named Jacksonville, named by Jacob Adamson, a Tennesseean and admirer of Andrew Jackson. A post office called New Market was established in 1839 after Adamson learned that Jacksonville was taken, and it remained in operation until 1959.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

New Market, 1839 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe New Market post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1935Born hereJim Ashmore is born here
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1959Post officeThe New Market post office closes
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New Market, decade by decade

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On the map

New Market on the map, 1951 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Market. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New Market on the 1951 USGS mapNew Market on the 1961 USGS mapNew Market on the 1978 USGS map1951Dearborn sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Market.

People over time

New Market, census by census

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Between 75 and 182 people in every census since 1900.

6 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New Market’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

New Market had its own post office from 1839 to 1959.

New Market
1839–1959
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Hamlets and corners on the map
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about New Market’s history

What year was New Market founded?

The New Market post office opened in 1839, 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 (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.