Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The Hickman post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hickman’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hickman yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hickman is an unincorporated community in Smith County, Tennessee, United States. Its ZIP code is 38567.
Its first post office opened in 1886.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Hickman, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The first place on Lick Creek in Hickman County was settled by John Mayberry, who came from Virginia, near the Peaks of Otter. He was here as a hunter as early as 1800, and made a, permanent settlement here about. 1806, he being the first settler on Lick Creek in Hickman County. He was a farmer and blacksmith, and has hundreds of descendants throughout Hickman, Maury, and Williamson Counties. He
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nored the claims of the Indians, but the early settler could not so easily ignore the savage himself. Therefore that portion of Dickson County embraced in Hickman county north of Duck River was not permanently settled until after the treaties made by the United States in 1805 and 1806, and that portion of Ilickman County south of Duck River was not permanently settled until after the final treaty of 1818.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hickman. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hickman.
Nobody well known was born in Hickman itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Hickman’s post office has been open since 1886.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Hickman post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
