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History · Macclesfield

Macclesfield’s post office opened in 1900

Most of Macclesfield was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1972. Below: maps from 1980 on and the census since 1970.

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How Macclesfield began

When was Macclesfield founded?

1900

The Macclesfield post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 536 in 19702020 census: 413126 years
Founding year: the first Macclesfield post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Macclesfield’s past

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

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How Macclesfield came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Macclesfield.

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Macclesfield was started between 1900 and 1901 when the Tarboro, North Carolina businessman, Henry Clark Bridgers founded The Macclesfield Company. The Macclesfield Company bought land surrounding the tracks of East Carolina Railway in what is now Macclesfield and built warehouses and other buildings.

Bracebridge Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, with a boundary increase in 2005.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Macclesfield, 1900 to 1980

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Macclesfield post office opens
  3. 1979Born hereTynesha Lewis is born here
  4. 1980On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Macclesfield on the map in 1980

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Macclesfield.

Macclesfield on the 1980 USGS map1980Pinetops 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 Macclesfield.

People over time

Macclesfield, census by census

0100200300400500600198020002020Peak: 536

Between 413 and 536 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

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

Questions about Macclesfield’s history

What year was Macclesfield founded?

The Macclesfield post office opened in 1900, 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 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.