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Do you know of Mead ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mead. 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 Mead. Our sources for Mead (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 Mead other than they indicate that Mead would be found somewhere in Williamson County, Illinois. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1901. 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 Mead ...We found twelve communities that share the name Mead. Within Illinois, the name Mead is unique. Beyond Illinois, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mead ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mead: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mead - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned More Orphans in Williamson 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 Williamson County. Footnotes ...
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