Do you know of Victory ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Victory. 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 Victory.
Our sources for Victory (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 Victory other than they indicate that Victory would be found somewhere in Mason County, Michigan.
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 Victory ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Victory.
Within Michigan, the name Victory is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Victory [Carroll County].
- Kentucky
- Laurel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Victory [Laurel County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Cumberland 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 North Carolina community of Victory [Cumberland County].
- Gaston County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Victory [Gaston County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Victory.
- Oklahoma
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Victory [Jackson County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Victory [Marion County].
- Vermont
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Victory [Essex County].
- Wisconsin
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Victory [Vernon County].
- Georgia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Victory ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Victory:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Victory - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Mason 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 Mason County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Victory 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. |