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History · Sardis

Sardis’ post office opened in 1875

Most of Sardis was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982.

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How Sardis began

When was Sardis founded?

1875

The Sardis post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 414151 years
Founding year: the first Sardis post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Sardis’ past

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

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The story so far

Sardis, in brief

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

Sardis is a town in Henderson County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, Sardis had a population of 414. The community was named after a Methodist church grounds near the site.

Its first post office opened in 1875. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 381 to 414 (+9%).

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

By decade

Sardis, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Sardis

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

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Eddy ArnoldAmerican country music singer, songwriter · b. 1918
Albert Brewer47th Governor of Alabama · b. 1928
Elizabeth PattersonAmerican actress · b. 1874
Thomas Sigismund StriblingAmerican author and lawyer · b. 1881
Whitney DuncanAmerican country music singer and reality telev… · b. 1984
W. S. HollandAmerican drummer · b. 1935
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Sardis’s post office has been open since 1875.

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Prospect ChurchchurchUnion Hill Churchchurch
1cemetery inside Sardis
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Sardis’ history

What year was Sardis founded?

The Sardis post office opened in 1875, 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), 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.