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Welcome to Fredonia ...So far, we found very little information about Fredonia. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Fredonia to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Fredonia, please Contact Us. Fredonia would have been located within present day Williamson County<2>. The location of Fredonia has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Fredonia, you might consider that their post office opened in 1846. While the community is gone, the present day location for Fredonia is 420 feet [128 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Fredonia was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Fredonia still existed, it would have been in the (618) area code. Communities Also Named Fredonia ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 24 communities that are also named Fredonia - they are located in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee (4), Texas (2), Washington and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fredonia. Communities near Fredonia ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Fredonia.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Fredonia. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fredonia. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Fredonia. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fredonia. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Fredonia. See our Newspapers Page for Fredonia. Adding Fredonia to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Fredonia in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Fredonia was in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). We also found Fredonia in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851). For more details, see References and Mentions for Fredonia. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov Footnotes ...
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