Its Register listings are the James W. Chesnutt House and the Englewood Water Tower. Its Register listings are the James W. Chesnutt House and the Englewood Water Tower. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1934 on, and the census since 1920.
The Englewood post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Mortimer (1885) and Tellico Junction (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 1,271 in 19202020 census: 1,483132 years
How historic is Englewood?
B
More historic than 55% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Englewood post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Englewood’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Englewood is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Englewood’s overall grade.
Tennessee towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Tennessee town has 6.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Englewood’s 11.0 sits near the middle of its state (65% of Tennessee towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.5 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Englewood’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
In 1857, businessman John Dixon established the Eureka Cotton Mills near what is now Englewood where they used regionally-grown cotton to produce yarn. The small mill community that developed around the mill became known as Eureka Mills. By 1875, Elisha Brient, a partner of Dixon, and several of Brient's relatives had acquired Eureka Cotton Mills, and in 1894 the Brients renamed the town of Eureka Mills "Englewood". The name was suggested by Nancy Chestnutt, a sister-in-law of James Brient, who thought the area resembled the English forests of the Robin Hood tales she had read about as a child.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Englewood, census by census
Between 1,271 and 1,878 people in every census since 1920.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Englewood’s Wikipedia page.
Questions about Englewood’s history
What year was Englewood founded?
The Englewood post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Englewood rank for history?
Englewood is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Englewood?
Two places: the James W. Chesnutt House (listed 2001) and the Englewood Water Tower (2020).
How old are the homes in Englewood?
15% of Englewood’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.5 points), against a typical 4.9% for a Tennessee town; the median home was built in 1968.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
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