Do you know of Frenchtown ???

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

Our sources for Frenchtown (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 Frenchtown other than they indicate that Frenchtown would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1815 and closed in 1824.

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 Frenchtown ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Frenchtown.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Frenchtown.

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Marquette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Frenchtown [Marquette County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Frenchtown [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
  - Fulton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Frenchtown [Fulton County].
- California
  - El Dorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Frenchtown [El Dorado County].
  - Yuba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Frenchtown [Yuba County].
- Indiana
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Frenchtown [Harrison County].
- Maryland
  - Cecil County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Frenchtown [Cecil County].
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Frenchtown [Somerset County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Charles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Frenchtown [Saint Charles County].
- Montana
  - Missoula County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Frenchtown [Missoula County].
- New Jersey
  - Hunterdon County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Frenchtown [Hunterdon County].
- Ohio
  - Darke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frenchtown [Darke County].
  - Seneca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frenchtown [Seneca County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frenchtown [Crawford County].
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frenchtown [Luzerne County].
  - Lycoming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frenchtown [Lycoming County].
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frenchtown [Pike County].
- Rhode Island
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Frenchtown [Kent County].
- South Dakota
  - Pennington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Frenchtown [Pennington County].
- Texas
  - Denton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Frenchtown [Denton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Frenchtown ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

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

More Orphans in Monroe 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 Monroe County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Frenchtown could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/