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Do you know of Alston ???

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

Our sources for Alston (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 Alston other than they indicate that Alston would be found somewhere in Franklin County, Arkansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 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 Alston ...

We found nine communities that share the name Alston.

Within Arkansas, the name Alston is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Alston [Montgomery County].
      • Stewart 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 Alston [Stewart County].
    • Kentucky
      • Ohio 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 Kentucky community of Alston [Ohio County].
    • Michigan
      • Houghton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Alston [Houghton County].
    • Missouri
      • Barton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alston [Barton County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Woodward County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Alston [Woodward County].
    • Oregon
      • Columbia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Alston [Columbia County].
    • South Carolina
      • Fairfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Alston [Fairfield County].
    • West Virginia
      • Barbour County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Alston [Barbour County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alston ...

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

William Bradley Map (1889)
Published by William M. Bradley and Brothers

More Orphans in  Franklin 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 Franklin County.

Burkesville 
 Lonelm
Dorietta 
 Mulberry
Esther 
 Pauline
FloweryPlymouth
 Point Prairie
Game Hill 
GammielRosadale
Gernada Chapel 
 Southerlands Crossroads
Hight 
HortenseVineland

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Alston 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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