Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Oak Bowery came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Oak Bowery 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 Oak Bowery. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Oak Bowery data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

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

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

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

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Oak Bowery. See our Misc Page for Oak Bowery for more information.