Bemis is a former company town in Madison County, Tennessee, United States, now part of the city of Jackson.

A second neighborhood, named Bicycle Hill, was built in 1903 to support a new mill facility that opened that year.

Additional residential areas were built later, including the Silver Circle neighborhood in 1919–1921 and West Bemis in 1926.

[4] Community facilities provided in Bemis included schools, churches, sidewalks, fire protection services, company stores, a United States post office, a hotel, a boarding house, a railroad depot, an 850-seat auditorium designed by Massachusetts architect Andrew Hepburn and completed in 1922, a YMCA building, a swimming pool, parks, a bath house, a six-hole golf course, and a company farm.

[3][5] In 1950, the company reported that its mills in Bemis held 50,000 spindles and 1,710 looms and that they employed 1,250 workers who processed 26,000 bales of cotton annually, producing 50 million yards (45,720,000 m) of cotton cloth and one million pounds (about 450,000 kg) of thread.

[2] In 1976, Bemis lost its status as a postal city,[7] but the post office continued to operate.

[10] In 2014, the city of Jackson announced plans to tear down the Bemis Mill and create a memorial park on the site where it stood.