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Do you know of Windham ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1895.

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 Windham ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Windham.

Within Alabama, the name Windham is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Connecticut
      • Windham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Windham [Windham County].
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Windham [Cook County].
    • Iowa
      • Johnson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Windham [Johnson County].
    • Maine
      • Cumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Windham [Cumberland County].
    • Maryland
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Windham [Montgomery County].
    • Montana
      • Judith Basin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Windham [Judith Basin County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Rockingham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Windham [Rockingham County].
    • New York
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Windham [Greene County].
    • Ohio
      • Portage County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Windham [Portage County].
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Windham.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bradford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Windham [Bradford County].
    • Vermont
      • Windham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Windham [Windham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Windham ...

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

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 Windham - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Baldwin County ...

Can you help?

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 Baldwin County.

AnnetteKohler
  
BattlesLake Forest
BelfountainLamberta
BennettLilian
  
ClareMorriston
  
DolivesPeadro
DoranPerdido Station
DowtyPine Beach
DunlapPresley
Dyas Creek 
 Ray
EuclidRoscoe
  
HerndonScranage
Honey CutScrange
Hurricane BayouStyx
  
JonesboroTensas
 Theresa

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 Windham 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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