Editing Manchester, Tennessee (section)

==History==
A post office called Manchester has been in operation since 1817.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postmasterfinder/welcome.htm | title=Postmaster Finder | publisher=USPS | access-date=June 18, 2015}}</ref> The city was named after [[Manchester]], in England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hull|first=Howard|title=Tennessee Post Office Murals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PdwlpAFp-4cC&pg=PA107|date=January 1, 1996|publisher=The Overmountain Press|isbn=978-1-57072-030-7|page=107}}</ref> According to historians, "A small village, “Mitchellsville” was already in existence near the proposed site for the new county seat, but when the new county was formed, it was renamed “Manchester” after the industrial city of Manchester, England. Because of the abundance of water power, provided by the “Little Duck” & “Big Duck” Rivers, which flow through Manchester, it was hoped that it also would become a great industrial city."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tngenweb.org/coffee/history/|title=Coffee County, TNGenWeb|access-date=June 20, 2018}}</ref>

Long-time Mayor Lonnie J. Norman died of [[COVID-19]] in 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Wong|first=Wilson|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-mayor-lonnie-norman-dies-covid-19-n1242958|title=Mayor of Tennessee city that hosts Bonnaroo dies of Covid-19 at 79|website=[[NBC News]]|date=October 12, 2020|access-date=October 12, 2020}}</ref>