Do you know of Caledonia ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Caledonia. 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 Caledonia.
Our sources for Caledonia (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 Caledonia other than they indicate that Caledonia would be found somewhere in Moore County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1828 and closed in 1906.
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 Caledonia ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Caledonia.
Within North Carolina, the name Caledonia is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 22 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Wilcox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Caledonia [Wilcox County].
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Caledonia [Union County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Caledonia [Sullivan County].
- Iowa
- Ringgold County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Caledonia [Ringgold County].
- Kansas
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Caledonia [Ottawa County].
- Kentucky
- Trigg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Caledonia [Trigg County].
- Michigan
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Caledonia [Kent County].
- Minnesota
- Houston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Caledonia [Houston County].
- Mississippi
- Lowndes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Caledonia [Lowndes County].
- Missouri
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Caledonia [Washington County].
- Montana
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Caledonia [Carbon County].
- New York
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Caledonia [Livingston County].
- Saint Lawrence 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 York community of Caledonia [Saint Lawrence County].
- North Dakota
- Traill County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Caledonia [Traill County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Caledonia.
- Ohio
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Caledonia [Marion County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Caledonia.
- Pennsylvania
- Elk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Caledonia [Elk County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Caledonia.
- Texas
- Rusk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Caledonia [Rusk County].
- Virginia
- Goochland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Caledonia [Goochland County].
- Washington
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Caledonia [Pierce County].
- Wisconsin
- Racine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Caledonia [Racine County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Caledonia ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Caledonia:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Caledonia - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Moore 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 Moore 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Caledonia 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |