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History · Milledgeville

Milledgeville’s post office opened in 1869, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1936 on and the census since 1970.

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How Milledgeville began

When was Milledgeville founded?

1869

The Milledgeville post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 349 in 19702020 census: 271157 years
Founding year: the first Milledgeville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Milledgeville’s past

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

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Milledgeville’s history is told.

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The story so far

Milledgeville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Milledgeville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Milledgeville is a town in Chester, Hardin, and McNairy counties, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, Milledgeville had a population of 271.

Its first post office opened in 1869. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 265 to 271 (+2%).

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

Timeline

Milledgeville, 1869 to 1936

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1869Post officeThe Milledgeville post office opens
  3. 1874Born hereN. B. Hardeman is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1936On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Milledgeville, decade by decade

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On the map

Milledgeville on the map, 1936 to 1972

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Milledgeville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Milledgeville on the 1936 USGS mapMilledgeville on the 1949 USGS mapMilledgeville on the 1972 USGS map1936Milledgeville 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 Milledgeville.

People over time

Milledgeville, census by census

0100200300400198020002020Peak: 392

Between 265 and 392 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

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

Questions about Milledgeville’s history

What year was Milledgeville founded?

The Milledgeville post office opened in 1869, 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 (3), 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.