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Michie is an incorporated town in McNairy County in southwestern Tennessee, just north of the Mississippi state line.

Michie grew out of a community settled along Lick Creek as early as the 1820s and known locally as Pea Ridge; Benjamin F. Sanders later named it Monterey, after the Mexican-American War battle in which many Tennesseans had volunteered.

When McNairy County voted on secession on June 8, 1861, Michie’s District 9 voted 145 to 0 in favor of leaving the Union.

In early April 1862, Confederate forces camped at Monterey for several days before marching out on April 5 to begin the Battle of Shiloh; the “Mickey House,” a misreading of the local Michie family’s name, served as a headquarters for Confederate corps commanders.

After the first two days at Shiloh, Monterey was the site of the Battle of Fallen Timbers on April 8, 1862, and a Confederate field hospital operated out of a converted warehouse there.

Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Halleck made Monterey their headquarters for much of the Siege of Corinth, with Union earthworks running from Michie toward Corinth, Mississippi.

When the community applied for a post office in 1881, the name Monterey was already in use elsewhere in Tennessee, so it took the name Michie, after a prominent local family; the Michie name was approved in January 1882.

Michie incorporated as a town in 1961, and “Doc” Eldridge Samuel Howard served as its first mayor from 1961 to 1971.

The 2020 census counted 679 residents in Michie, up from 591 in 2010 and the most ever recorded for the town.

The 2000 census counted 647 residents living in 275 households in Michie, with 310 housing units.