Do you know of Center Grove ???

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

Our sources for Center Grove (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 Center Grove other than they indicate that Center Grove would be found somewhere in Bedford County, Tennessee.

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 Center Grove ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Center Grove.

There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Center Grove.

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

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Center Grove [Franklin County].
- Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Center Grove [Jackson County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Center Grove [Morgan County].
- Arkansas
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Center Grove [Grant County].
- Georgia
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Center Grove [Walker County].
- Iowa
  - Dubuque County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Center Grove [Dubuque County].
- Kansas
  - Shawnee 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 Kansas community of Center Grove [Shawnee County].
- Mississippi
  - Oktibbeha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Center Grove [Oktibbeha County].
- Missouri
  - Atchison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Center Grove [Atchison County].
- Texas
  - Houston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Center Grove [Houston County].
  - Titus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Center Grove [Titus County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Center Grove ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Bedford 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 Bedford County.

Arnold's Store
	Keys Chapel
Centre Grove
Coldwell	Rays Chapel
	Rich Valley
Dean	Rowesville
	Royal
Four Way
Fruit Valley	Sinking Creek
	Stokes Crossing
Haley's Station
Haven	Wartrace Depot
Hiram	Wisener

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 Center Grove 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.