Henderson County Tennessee Genealogy & History

Lexington Post Office
Henderson County TN

The Lexington Post Office was established March 1, 1824. John A. Greer was the first Postmaster. He served for an annual salary of $33.49. The earliest available record net receipts shows for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1827, $110.33. Rural delivery service was established in 1904, with two carriers. Village delivery was established in 1917.
The present (1940) Postmaster is the Hon. Samuel C. Jones. The receipts for the year 1939 were $13,689.00. The Lexington Post Office is the only second class office in Henderson County. The office force consists of three regular clerks and one substitute clerk.
The area around Lexington is served by four Rural Carriers daily from this office. The city of Lexington is served by two village carriers. Three star routes leave this office daily serving more than thirty offices int he area of Tennessee River and from Lexington to Nashville. The present building was occupied December 31, 1937. The approximate cost of this building was $70,000.00
The Post Office Department is one of our oldest institutions. The American postal service had its beginnings in the earliest colonial days.
The Post Office Department is the one Department that is older than the Government itself, having been established by the Continental Congress before the adoption of the Constitution.
From the works of Louise Oakley - 1940 - Supervisor of Henderson County School

POSTOFFICES
of
HENDERSON COUNTY
Oldest to Newest

Lexington 1824 - Purdys 1825-1828 Pleasant Exchange 1826-1867 Mifflin 1828-1882 Independence 1831-1845 Crucifer 1836-1904 Burns Store 1837-1837 Red Mound 1837-1875 Jacks Creek 1837-1882 Clanton's Store 1846-1848 Hurricane Creek 1846-1852 Middle Fork 1847-1895 Juno 1847-1957 Shady Hill 1850-1895 Nero 1851-1855 Williamsburg 1852-1854 Peru 1853-1856 Poplar Spring 1853-1905 Farmville 1853-1905 Lamar 1854-1855 Oak Forrest 1854-1867 Centre Point 1854-1882 Spains 1854-1866 Chestnut Hill 1855-1911 Centre Hill 1857-1858 Parker's Cross Roads 1859-1867 Spellings 1866-1905 Lone Elm 1868-1890 Sardis 1875- Wildersville 1875- Newsomville 1876-1877 Moores Hill 1877-1896 Atkins 1879-1904 Spain 1879-1904 Ada 1880-1887 Life 1881-1934 Davisburg 1882-1883 Alberton 1883-1904 Law 1883-1904 Long 1884-1904 Bargerton 1884-1905 Reagan 1884- Sherman's Mill 1885-1890 White Fern 1885-1906 Alexanders Mill 1886-1897 McHaney 1886-1904 Morgan 1886-1905 Pipkin 1888-1903 Chesterfield 1889-1975 Huron 1889- Darden 1889- Luray 1889- Safford 1890-1904 Warren's Bluff 1890-1937 Autry 1891-1893 Wingo 1891-1892 Stegall 1892-1905 Atlas 1893-1895 Orata 1894-1894 Middlefork 1895-1904 Floyville 1895-1904 Hinson Spring 1895-1915 Timber Lake 1897-1897 Zone 1898-1900 Shadyhill 1898-1905 Blankenship 1900-1904 Zora 1903-1904 Utley 1904-1906