Do you know of Peabody ???

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

Our sources for Peabody (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 Peabody other than they indicate that Peabody would be found somewhere in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1892.

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 Peabody ...

We found nine communities that share the name Peabody.

There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Peabody.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Located In West Virginia ...
  • Wetzel County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Peabody [Wetzel County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Sangamon County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Peabody [Sangamon County].
  • Indiana
    • Whitley County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Peabody [Whitley County].
  • Kansas
    • Marion County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Peabody [Marion County].
  • Kentucky
    • Clay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Peabody [Clay County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Essex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Peabody [Essex County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Peabody.
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Peabody.
  • Tennessee
    • Campbell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Peabody [Campbell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Peabody ...

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

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 Peabody - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Kanawha 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 Kanawha County.