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Do you know of Jena ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Jena. 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 Jena.

Our sources for Jena (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 Jena other than they indicate that Jena would be found somewhere in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1837 and closed  in 1921.

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 Jena ...

We found six communities that share the name Jena.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Jena.

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

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Jena [Greene County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Dixie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Jena [Dixie County].
    • Louisiana
      • Catahoula Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Jena [Catahoula Parish].
      • La Salle Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Jena [La Salle Parish].
      • Tangipahoa Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Jena [Tangipahoa Parish].
    • Tennessee
      • Loudon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Jena [Loudon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Jena ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa County.

AbernautLeled Lane
Addison 
 Marcumville
BethanyMcConnell's
Binion's CreekMcCrory Village
BoomMcFarland
Boyd CrossingMilldale
Burks GardensMills Spur
  
Clement's DepotNorth River
Colony 
ConnellsvilleOdenheim
CrumpOlmsted Station
 Olmsted
East SideOregonia
Elgin 
EtowahPearl
 Phalin
FoxPhifer
  
GothiteReno
GreeleyReuben
GriffcoRock Castle
Griffin 
 Sipsey Turnpike
HayesSkelton
Hickman's 
Hodges LakeTravilla
Holt JunctionTrion
HumphreyTyner
  
KaultonUnity
KennedaleUniversal Heights
  

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Jena 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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