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Welcome to Lowe ...So far, we found very little information about Lowe. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Lowe to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lowe, please Contact Us. Lowe would have been located within present day Madison County<2>. The location of Lowe has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Lowe, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881. While the community is gone, the present day location for Lowe is 610 feet [186 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Lowe was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Lowe (for example, toward Menlo (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Lowe would have been located in the (256) & (938)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Lowe ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Lowe - they are located in Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas (3), Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (2) and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lowe. Communities near Lowe ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lowe.
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 Lowe. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lowe. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lowe. 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 Lowe. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lowe. See our Newspapers Page for Lowe. Adding Lowe to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Lowe 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 Lowe was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Lowe in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Lowe. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Madison County: www.co.madison.al.us/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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