Do you know of Millwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Millwood. 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 Millwood.
Our sources for Millwood (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 Millwood other than they indicate that Millwood would be found somewhere in Chatham County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1914.
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 Millwood ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Millwood.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Millwood.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 29 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Millwood [Hale County].
- Arkansas
- Little River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Millwood [Little River County].
- California
- Inyo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Millwood [Inyo County].
- Colorado
- Montezuma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Millwood [Montezuma County].
- Florida
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Millwood [Marion County].
- Georgia
- Ware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Millwood [Ware County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Leavenworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Millwood [Leavenworth County].
- Kentucky
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Millwood [Grayson County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Millwood.
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Millwood [Carroll County].
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Millwood [Harford County].
- Prince George's 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 Maryland community of Millwood [Prince George's County].
- Missouri
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Millwood [Lincoln County].
- New York
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Millwood [Westchester County].
- Ohio
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Millwood [Knox County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Millwood.
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Millwood [Douglas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Millwood [Westmoreland County].
- South Carolina
- Abbeville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Millwood [Abbeville County].
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Millwood [Charleston County].
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Millwood [Dorchester County].
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Millwood [Richland County].
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Millwood [Sumter County].
- Williamsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Millwood [Williamsburg County].
- Texas
- Collin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Millwood [Collin County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Millwood [Spokane County].
- West Virginia
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Millwood [Jackson County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Millwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Millwood:
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 Millwood - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chatham 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 Chatham 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 Millwood 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/ |