Do you know of Merchant ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Merchant. 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 Merchant.
Our sources for Merchant (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Merchant other than they indicate that Merchant 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 Merchant ...
We found two communities that share the name Merchant.
There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Merchant.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Merchant in the United States.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Saluda County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Merchant [Saluda County].
- Saluda County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Virginia
- Brunswick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Merchant [Brunswick County].
- Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Merchant ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Merchant:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Merchant - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
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.