Do you know of Higgins' Ferry ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Higgins' Ferry. 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 Higgins' Ferry.
Our sources for Higgins' Ferry (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 Higgins' Ferry other than they indicate that Higgins' Ferry would be found somewhere in Edgefield County, South 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 Higgins' Ferry ...
We found one communities that share the name Higgins' Ferry.
Within South Carolina, the name Higgins' Ferry is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Higgins' Ferry in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Coosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Higgins' Ferry [Coosa County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Higgins' Ferry ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Higgins' Ferry:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Higgins' Ferry - 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 South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Edgefield County ...
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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 Edgefield County.