RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Alabama >> Tallapoosa County >> Island Home >> MentionsIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Alabama


The Commemorative Quarter for Alabama







Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Island Home came from various goverment sources (GNIS), we also found mention of Island Home in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Island Home. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: When we started collecting data about Island Home, we were inconsistent about keeping track of where that data came from. As a result, this list of references and mentions is probably incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Island Home:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Island Home is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The GNIS database contains an entry for Island Home. See our Misc Page for Island Home for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/