Carthage post office

The post office at Carthage, the county seat of Smith County, is one fo the oldest continuously-running post offices in the Upper Cumberland. It was established in 1806 under postmaster Benjamin Rigley. The post office is currently located at 115 Main Street, and its ZIP Code designation is 37030.
==List of Postmasters==
Name 	Date Appointed 	Title
Benjamin Rigley 	April 1, 1807 	Postmaster
Thomas McNutt 	January 11, 1808 	Postmaster
Andrew Allison 	June 20, 1816 	Postmaster
David Campbell 	November 9, 1818 	Postmaster
Robert I. Chester 	February 19, 1822 	Postmaster
John K. Chester 	April 26, 1825 	Postmaster
George Elgin 	April 1, 1826 	Postmaster
James Beckwith 	October 5, 1827 	Postmaster
Joseph W. Allen 	December 13, 1834 	Postmaster
LeRoy E. Mitchell 	March 12, 1836 	Postmaster
George C. Allen 	December 23, 1839 	Postmaster
Samuel T. Coker 	March 10, 1840 	Postmaster
Daniel Fergusson 	July 19, 1845 	Postmaster
William Robinson 	June 15, 1847 	Postmaster
William K. Browning 	September 20, 1848 	Postmaster
Richard B. Hare 	October 11, 1849 	Postmaster
John L. Arendell 	August 28, 1850 	Postmaster
John I. Burnett 	March 1, 1854 	Postmaster
David Uton 	March 30, 1855 	Postmaster
John Bridges 	December 15, 1855 	Postmaster
Norvell B. McDonald 	April 5, 1859 	Postmaster
James H. Piper 	August 23, 1859 	Postmaster
Robert Strother 	October 4, 1859 	Postmaster
John E. Stevens 	January 6, 1860 	Postmaster
James Timberlake 	June 14, 1860 	Postmaster
William H. McDonald 	July 6, 1860 	Postmaster
Frank M. Goodall 	October 12, 1860 	Postmaster
Armstrong W. Allen 	November 28, 1860 	Postmaster
Edward L. Bradley 	June 16, 1865 	Postmaster
James P. McKee 	August 13, 1866 	Postmaster
Callie Meroney 	April 27, 1881 	Postmaster
Lizzie Savage 	July 5, 1893 	Postmaster
Jennie McKee 	August 27, 1897 	Postmaster
Robert M. Pickering 	October 18, 1901 	Postmaster
William B. Pickering 	September 25, 1903 	Postmaster
Felix P. McGinness 	January 18, 1915 	Postmaster
Frances S. Pickering 	August 31, 1922February 8, 1923	Acting PostmasterPostmaster
Jesse W. Alexander 	June 8, 1928January 11, 1929 	Acting PostmasterPostmaster
Jere Gardenhire 	July 18, 1933May 29, 1935 	Acting PostmasterPostmaster
Elisha T. Morris, Jr. 	January 31, 1958May 13, 1959 	Acting PostmasterPostmaster
Robert W. Willingham, Jr.	December 30, 1987 	Officer-in-Charge
Jerry W. Gregory 	February 27, 1988 	Postmaster
Deborah Huddleston 	January 30, 2003 	Officer-in-Charge
Bobby L. McCollum 	August 18, 2007 	Postmaster
Chris McClanahan 	March 10, 2011 	Officer-in-Charge
Seth A. Pepoon 	April 7, 2012 	Postmaster
Tim Knipp 	October 12, 2012 	Officer-in-Charge
Joseph M. Cravens, Jr. 	April 6, 2013 	Postmaster
==References==
*Key, F. Carmack. "Post Offices Of Smith Co. With Officers." http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsmith/tngen/Poffices.htm n.d. Web. Accessed 26 January 2014.
*"Postmasters By City; Carthage Post Office, Smith County, Tennessee." http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt003.cfm 2014. Web. Accessed 26 January 2014.
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