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Do you know of Cains Store ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cains Store. 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 Cains Store. Our sources for Cains Store (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cains Store other than they indicate that Cains Store would be found somewhere in Pulaski County, Kentucky. 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. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cains Store ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cains Store: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cains Store - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Cains Store. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 21/11710 (Place Name: Cains Store) County: Pulaski (FIPS State/County: 21/199) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Cains Store) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County. |
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