Welcome to Island Home ...Island Home is located in Tallapoosa County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Island Home, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857. Island Home is 520 feet [158 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Island Home lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Island Home (for example, toward West Point (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Area Codes for Island Home: 256 & 938<3> Communities Also Named Island Home ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Island Home - it's located in Tennessee. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Island Home. Communities near Island Home ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Island Home.
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 Island Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Island Home. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Island Home. 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 Island Home. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Island Home. See our Newspapers Page for Island Home. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Island Home ...Looking for more information about Island Home? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Island Home, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Island Home. Adding Island Home to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Island Home 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 (so far) for Island Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Island Home. Footnotes ...
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