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History · Michie

Michie’s post office opened in 1882, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

1882first post office
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Quick answers

How Michie began

When was Michie founded?

1882

The Michie post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Monterey (1847) and Tulu (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 679144 years
Founding year: the first Michie post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Michie’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 Michie are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Michie, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Michie’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Michie’s post office has been open since 1882. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Monterey
1847–1881
Michie
1882–today
Tulu
1893–1901
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Tulu
1cemetery inside Michie
Carter

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Michie came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Michie.

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Michie is rooted in a 19th century community known as "Monterey." When the community applied for a post office in 1881, the name Monterey had already been taken by another town in Tennessee, so the community settled on the name "Michie" after a prominent local family.

ChaptersMonterey and Civil WarMunicipal Era

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Michie, 1847 to 1901

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1847Post officeThe Monterey post office opens
  3. 1881Post officeThe Monterey post office closes
  4. 1882Post officeThe Michie post office opens
  5. 1893Post officeThe Tulu post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1901Post officeThe Tulu post office closes
By decade

Michie, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Michie

Nobody well known was born in Michie itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Earle MeadowsAmerican athlete · b. 1913
Albert Brewer47th Governor of Alabama · b. 1928
Elizabeth PattersonAmerican actress · b. 1874
Roscoe TurnerAmerican airplane racer · b. 1895
Dewey PhillipsAmerican radio personality · b. 1926
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Thomas K. McCrawAmerican historian · b. 1940

Questions about Michie’s history

What year was Michie founded?

The Michie post office opened in 1882, 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 (6), 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.