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Welcome to Grantville ...So far, we found very little information about Grantville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Grantville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Grantville, please Contact Us. Grantville would have been located within present day Cherokee County<2>. The location of Grantville has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Grantville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1875. While the community is gone, the present day location for Grantville is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Grantville was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: While Grantville is in the Central Time Zone, the area just to the east is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Grantville would have been located in the (256) & (938)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Grantville ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 11 communities that are also named Grantville - they are located in California, Connecticut, Georgia (2), Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Grantville. Communities near Grantville ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Grantville.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Grantville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Grantville. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Grantville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Grantville. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Grantville. See our Newspapers Page for Grantville. Adding Grantville to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Grantville in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Grantville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Grantville in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Grantville. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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