Do you know of Cottage Home ???

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

Our sources for Cottage Home (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 Cottage Home other than they indicate that Cottage Home would be found somewhere in Williamson County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1911.

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 Cottage Home ...

We found two communities that share the name Cottage Home.

Within Illinois, the name Cottage Home is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Carolina
    • Lincoln County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cottage Home [Lincoln County].
  • Tennessee
    • Wilson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cottage Home [Wilson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cottage Home ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Williamson 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 Williamson County.