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Do you know of Coles ???

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

We found mention of Coles as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bristol County, Rhode Island.

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.

Communities Also Named Coles ...

We found ten communities that share the name Coles.

There is one other community in Rhode Island which is also named Coles.

Beyond Rhode Island, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Rhode Island ...
    • Kent County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Coles [Kent County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Coles [Randolph County].
    • Illinois
      • Moultrie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Coles [Moultrie County].
    • Maine
      • Kennebec County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Coles [Kennebec County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Bristol 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 Massachusetts community of Coles [Bristol County].
    • Michigan
      • Chippewa 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 Michigan community of Coles [Chippewa County].
    • Mississippi
      • Amite County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Coles [Amite County].
    • Ohio
      • Summit County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Coles [Summit County].
      • Trumbull County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Coles [Trumbull County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Schuylkill 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 Coles [Schuylkill County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Coles ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Coles:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Coles - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Bristol 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 Bristol County.

Barrington Center 
Barrington StationPopasquash Point
Bristol Narrows 
 Rumstick Point
Drownville 
 South Warren
Hampden Meadows 
 Touisset
Nayatt Point 

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 Coles 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.









 

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