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Do you know of Lawson ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lawson. 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 Lawson. Our sources for Lawson (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 Lawson other than they indicate that Lawson would be found somewhere in Raleigh County, West Virginia. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1915. 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 Lawson ...We found fourteen communities that share the name Lawson. Within West Virginia, the name Lawson is unique. Beyond West Virginia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lawson ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lawson: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lawson - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
More Orphans in Raleigh 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 Raleigh County. Footnotes ...
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