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Do you know of Blue Spring ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue Spring. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Blue Spring.

Our sources for Blue Spring (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Blue Spring other than they indicate that Blue Spring would be found somewhere in Morgan County, Alabama.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Blue Spring ...

We found eight communities that share the name Blue Spring.

Within Alabama, the name Blue Spring is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Marion County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Blue Spring [Marion County].
    • Georgia
      • Catoosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Spring [Catoosa County].
      • Gordon County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Spring [Gordon County].
      • Worth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Spring [Worth County].
    • Kentucky
      • Trigg County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Blue Spring [Trigg County].
    • South Carolina
      • Kershaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Blue Spring [Kershaw County].
    • Tennessee
      • Carter County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Blue Spring [Carter County].
    • West Virginia
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Blue Spring [Randolph County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Spring ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blue Spring:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Blue Spring - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Morgan County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Morgan County.

Air 
 Kyleton
Basham's GapKymulga
Beltline 
 Lacy's Spring
Cedar CrossingLanes
CedarsLawrence Cove
Cold Springs 
CotacoMcClanahan
CrowtonMount Hill
  
DanvlleNew Center
 Nobusiness
Flint 
Fort BluffSitzville
 Stroups Crossroads
Gandy's Cove 
GetupTrinity Station
Gum Pond 
 Walling
HawkWolff
Hodges StoreWoodale

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Blue Spring could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.









 

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