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Do you know of Galloway ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 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 Galloway ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Galloway.

Within Alabama, the name Galloway is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Pulaski County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Galloway [Pulaski County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Galloway.
    • Florida
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Galloway [Polk County].
    • Georgia
      • Fannin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Galloway [Fannin County].
    • Illinois
      • La Salle County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Galloway [La Salle County].
    • Michigan
      • Grand Traverse County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Galloway [Grand Traverse County].
      • Saginaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Galloway [Saginaw County].
    • Mississippi
      • Claiborne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Galloway [Claiborne County].
    • Missouri
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Galloway [Greene County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Galloway.
    • New Jersey
      • Burlington County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Galloway [Burlington County].
    • North Carolina
      • Transylvania County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Galloway [Transylvania County].
    • Ohio
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Galloway [Franklin County].
    • Oregon
      • Morrow County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Galloway [Morrow County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Venango County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Galloway [Venango County].
    • Texas
      • Cass County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Galloway [Cass County].
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Galloway [Jefferson County].
      • Panola County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Galloway [Panola County].
    • West Virginia
      • Barbour County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Galloway [Barbour County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Marathon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Galloway [Marathon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Galloway ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Walker 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 Walker County.

Allen 
Argo HeightsKilgo
 Kings
BergensKlondike
  
ChickasawLeespeer
ClarkLeith
CloughLeland
CoalLuckey
Colta 
CormickMcCullum
Creel Town 
 New Dora
Dixie 
 Oakland
Eagle 
EstParkland
  
Gamble MinesRonald
Gravleeton 
GurganusSegco
 Stansbury
Hillard 
Horse CreekTiger Mines
 Tryst
Jagger 
JimhillWest Pratt
JugWilmington

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Galloway could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<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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