Do you know of Rockwood ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Rockwood, so we are uncertain whether Rockwood is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Rockwood would be found somewhere in Durham County, North Carolina.

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 Rockwood ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Rockwood.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Rockwood.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Alamance County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rockwood [Alamance County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rockwood [Franklin County].
- California
  - Imperial County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rockwood [Imperial County].
- Colorado
  - La Plata County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Rockwood [La Plata County].
- Illinois
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rockwood [Randolph County].
- Kentucky
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rockwood [Fayette County].
- Maine
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Rockwood [Somerset County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Rockwood.
- Michigan
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Rockwood [Wayne County].
- Minnesota
  - Polk 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 Minnesota community of Rockwood [Polk County].
- New Hampshire
  - Cheshire County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Rockwood [Cheshire County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Rockwood [Atlantic County].
- New York
  - Fulton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Rockwood [Fulton County].
- Ohio
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockwood [Lawrence County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rockwood.
- Oregon
  - Multnomah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Rockwood [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Lebanon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockwood [Lebanon County].
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockwood [Somerset County].
  - Venango 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 Pennsylvania community of Rockwood [Venango County].
- Tennessee
  - Roane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rockwood [Roane County].
- Texas
  - Coleman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rockwood [Coleman County].
- Wisconsin
  - Manitowoc County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rockwood [Manitowoc County].

More Orphans in Durham 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 Durham 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 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 Rockwood 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.