Do you know of Prather ???

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

Our sources for Prather (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 Prather other than they indicate that Prather would be found somewhere in Habersham County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1894.

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 Prather ...

We found four communities that share the name Prather.

There is one other community in Georgia which is also named Prather.

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

• Communities Located In Georgia ...
  • Wilkes County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Prather [Wilkes County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Fresno County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Prather [Fresno County].
  • Indiana
    • Clark County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Prather [Clark County].
    • Morgan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Prather [Morgan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prather ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

Cities, Towns and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962
Written by: Hemperly, Marion R.
Published by the Southern Historical Press, 1980
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Habersham 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 Habersham County.