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Do you know of Effort ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Effort. 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 Effort.<1>

Our sources for Effort (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 Effort other than they indicate that Effort would be found somewhere in Crenshaw County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1898 and closed  in 1904.

Communities Also Named Effort ...

We found one communities that share the name Effort.

Within Alabama, the name Effort is unique.

Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Effort in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Monroe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Effort [Monroe County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Effort ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Crenshaw 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 Crenshaw County.

AikenHudson
Argus 
 Jacksontown
BestJohnson
Black RockJulian
  
CohortMalear
ColemanMarch
Cook's StandMount Ida
  
ExzebaNew Providence
 Norwood
Gardnerville 
GoldenPatsaliga
  
HelicanSal Soda
HostSurles

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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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