Do you know of Martinsville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Martinsville. 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 Martinsville.
Our sources for Martinsville (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 Martinsville other than they indicate that Martinsville would be found somewhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1904.
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 Martinsville ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Martinsville.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Martinsville.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Martinsville [York County].
- York County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Martinsville [Clark County].
- Indiana
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Martinsville [Morgan County].
- Kentucky
- Knott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Martinsville [Knott County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Martinsville [Warren County].
- Maine
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Martinsville [Knox County].
- Michigan
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Martinsville [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
- Copiah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Martinsville [Copiah County].
- Missouri
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Martinsville [Harrison County].
- Montana
- Valley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Martinsville [Valley County].
- Nebraska
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Martinsville [Hall County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Martinsville [Somerset County].
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Martinsville [Niagara County].
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Martinsville [Wyoming County].
- Ohio
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Martinsville [Clinton County].
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Martinsville [Holmes County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg 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 South Carolina community of Martinsville [Spartanburg County].
- Texas
- Nacogdoches County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Martinsville [Nacogdoches County].
- Virginia
- Henry 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 Virginia community of Martinsville [Henry County].
- Martinsville City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Martinsville [Martinsville City].
- Wisconsin
- Dane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Martinsville [Dane County].
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Martinsville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Martinsville:
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 Martinsville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster 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 Martinsville 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/ |