Do you know of Stonewall ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Stonewall. 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 Stonewall.
Our sources for Stonewall (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 Stonewall other than they indicate that Stonewall would be found somewhere in Duval County, Florida.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1907.
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 Stonewall ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Stonewall.
Within Florida, the name Stonewall is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Stonewall [Greene County].
- California
- San Diego County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Stonewall [San Diego County].
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- De Soto Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Stonewall [De Soto Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Stonewall.
- Mississippi
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Stonewall [Clarke County].
- DeSoto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Stonewall [DeSoto County].
- Harrison 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 Mississippi community of Stonewall [Harrison County].
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Stonewall [Holmes County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Stonewall [Nye County].
- North Carolina
- Pamlico County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stonewall [Pamlico County].
- Oklahoma
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Stonewall [Pontotoc County].
- Tennessee
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Stonewall [Smith County].
- Texas
- Gillespie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Stonewall [Gillespie County].
- Virginia
- Alleghany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stonewall [Alleghany County].
- Appomattox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stonewall [Appomattox County].
- Augusta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stonewall [Augusta County].
- Rockingham 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 Virginia community of Stonewall [Rockingham County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha 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 West Virginia community of Stonewall [Kanawha County].
- Raleigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Stonewall [Raleigh County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Stonewall ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Stonewall:
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 Stonewall - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Duval 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 Duval County.
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 Stonewall 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/ |