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History · Buchanan

Buchanan’s post office opened in 1859

Most of Buchanan was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993.

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How Buchanan began

When was Buchanan founded?

1859

The Buchanan post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 71167 years
Founding year: the first Buchanan post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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Buchanan, in brief

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Buchanan is an unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee. It is located about six miles west of Paris Landing State Park, which is located on the Tennessee River on the west bank of Kentucky Lake. Buchanan was founded in the 1840s. As of 2008, the community has a post office, feed mill, a volunteer fire station, two churches, a Masonic hall and several houses. The zip code (38222) includes Paris Landing State Park.

Its first post office opened in 1859.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Famous people close to Buchanan

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Cherry JonesAmerican actress · b. 1956
Leigh-Allyn BakerAmerican actress · b. 1972
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Molly SimsAmerican actress · b. 1973
Jackie DeShannonAmerican singer-songwriter (b. 1941) · b. 1941
Adrian SmithAmerican basketball player · b. 1936
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Cleanth BrooksAmerican literary critic and academic · b. 1906

Questions about Buchanan’s history

What year was Buchanan founded?

The Buchanan post office opened in 1859, 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 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.