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Do you know of Sinnett's Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sinnett's Mills. 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 Sinnett's Mills.

Our sources for Sinnett's Mills (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 Sinnett's Mills other than they indicate that Sinnett's Mills would be found somewhere in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sinnett's Mills ...

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

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 Sinnett's Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Ritchie 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 Ritchie County.

BeasonNutters Farm
Beechgrove 
Bone CreekPritchard
Bradens 
 Rush Run
Combs 
 Silver Run
Donohue 
 Thursday
Goose Creek 
Goose NeckUpper Addis Run
  
LoughVilas
 Volcano Junction
McDougal 
Mole HillWihiteoak
  

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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