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Do you know of Marianna ???

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

Our sources for Marianna (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 Marianna other than they indicate that Marianna would be found somewhere in Polk County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1871 and closed  in 1896.

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 Marianna ...

We found six communities that share the name Marianna.

Within Texas, the name Marianna is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Lee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Marianna [Lee County].
    • Florida
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Marianna [Jackson County].
    • Georgia
      • Camden County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Marianna [Camden County].
    • Mississippi
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Marianna [Marshall County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Marianna [Washington County].
    • West Virginia
      • Wyoming County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Marianna [Wyoming County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Marianna ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

More Orphans in  Polk 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 Polk County.

Camp ProvidenceMulvey
Charity 
 Nettie
Elbert 
 Palestine
FantPinckney
  
GallRock Island
Guelph 
 Soda
KurthStryker
  
MorganvilleValda

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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