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Bradley County Postmasters
An Educational Study of Bradley County, TN
by Ernest Lafayette Ross
1940
1st post office
established Sept. 9, 1836, supplied mail twice a week, route: Athens to Spring
Place, Georgia.
1st postmaster was Nicholis Spring, followed
by the Postmasters listed below.
| James Berry | April 12, 1838 |
| William H. White | March 2, 1842 |
| Robert S. Stuart | April 6, 1846 |
| James Hoyle | May 17, 1848 |
| James C. Gamble | March 13, 1850 |
| Stephen Hempstead | Jan. 20, 1833 |
| Robert S. Stuart | April 5, 1853 |
| Thomas W. Johnson | May 6, 1856 |
| James S. Robertson | Jan. 21, 1865 |
| Aineworth E. Blunt | April 9, 1869 |
| Samuell Hunt | March 16, 1877 |
| W. J. Tipton | May 5, 1881 |
| Mary H. Edwards | May 11, 1885 |
| James E. Surgine | March 10, 1887 |
| Jesse H. Gaut | Oct. 1, 1889 |
| Wallace K. Shedan | March 19, 1891 |
| Franklin P. Kanester | Feb. 24, 1896 |
| James Marshall | March 31, 1900 |
| Gus Cate | April 27, 1904 |
| J. I. Harrison | April 28, 1908 |
| Madison T. Fouts | Nov. 16, 1912 |
| J. R. Brown | May 9, 1913 |
| J. F. Harrison | Aug. 8, 1933 (acting) |
| James F. Anderson | Nove 19, 1933 |
A post office was established at Charleston on June 17, 1840. Cleveland post office was erected 1911, cost was $50,000. Before that time, each postmaster rented a building. In 1935 an addition was erected which doubled the capacity of the work room. The post office advanced form Second to First Class in 1925. |
