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Do you know of Grenada ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1911.

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 Grenada ...

We found two communities that share the name Grenada.

Within Alabama, the name Grenada is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Siskiyou County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Grenada [Siskiyou County].
    • Mississippi
      • Grenada County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Grenada [Grenada County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grenada ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Lawrence 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 Lawrence County.

BrickMunk City
  
ColeOra
Crow 
 Pitt
Gum PondPool
 Progress
Hodges Store 
 Robertson
Jacobs 
JenningsSewickley
 Step
KimoSummers
  
LangtownTempleton
Leola 
LileWheeler Station
  

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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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024