Do you know of Mantua ???

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

We found mention of Mantua as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Pickens County, Alabama.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1844 and closed  in 1867.

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 Mantua ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Mantua.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Mantua.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Located In Alabama ...
  • Greene County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mantua [Greene County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kansas
    • Allen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mantua [Allen County].
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mantua [Baltimore County].
  • New Jersey
    • Gloucester County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Mantua [Gloucester County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Mantua.
  • Ohio
    • Guernsey County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mantua [Guernsey County].
    • Portage County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mantua [Portage County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mantua [Philadelphia County].
  • Texas
    • Collin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mantua [Collin County].
  • Utah
    • Box Elder County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Mantua [Box Elder County].
  • Virginia
    • Fairfax County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mantua [Fairfax County].
  • Wyoming
    • Park County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Mantua [Park County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mantua ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Pickens 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 Pickens County.