Named after financier Samuel Franklin Tracy, the city developed out of railroad and mining interests after coal was found in 1840.

[1] In 2010 the people of Tracy City elected a dead man, Carl Robin Geary, as mayor.

In the early 1870s Tracy City an experimental blast furnace was built by Samuel Jones and owned by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.

[6] The coke ovens at Tracy City supplied railroad and industrial fuel and workers and their families moved into the area in great numbers from 1875 until 1900.

On April 8, 2022, there was an arson attempt at the Historic Christ Church Episcopal on 10th Street in Tracy City.

The company, founded in 1873 by Swiss settler Christian Marugg, designs and manufactures European style scythes.

[6] Tracy City is at one end of the Fiery Gizzard Trail, renowned for scenic beauty and diversity.

In 2010 Tracy City residents elected recently deceased Carl Robin Geary as mayor.

Geary died of a heart attack on March 10, and on April 12 he was elected, beating incumbent Barbara Bock 268 votes to 85.

[7] When asked what would come of her political career after losing to a dead man, Mrs Brock replied: "I'll live," she said.

[20] American college football player and University of Miami coach Charlie Tate was born in Tracy City.

[22] Baseball player Phil Douglas is buried in Tracy City Cemetery, even though he died in Sequatchie, Tennessee.

Leonhardt became involved in politics in 1932 when he joined the National Front, and before long he had risen to the rank of Gauführer (equivalent to Gauleiter) in both Basel-City and the Canton of Solothurn.