Do you know of Old Town ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Old Town. 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 Old Town.
We found mention of Old Town as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Coffee 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 1841 and closed in 1855.
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 Old Town ...
We found 36 communities that share the name Old Town.
There are three communities within Alabama that are also named Old Town.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 34 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Conecuh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Old Town [Conecuh County].
- Dallas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Old Town [Dallas County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Old Town [Fayette County].
- Conecuh County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Old Town.
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Kern County].
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Marin County].
- San Diego County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [San Diego County].
- Santa Barbara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Santa Barbara County].
- Ventura County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Ventura County].
- Florida
- Dixie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Old Town [Dixie County].
- Lafayette County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Old Town [Lafayette County].
- Georgia
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Old Town [Jefferson County].
- Indiana
- Jackson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Old Town [Jackson County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Old Town [Warren County].
- Iowa
- Dickinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Old Town [Dickinson County].
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Old Town [Penobscot County].
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Montana
- Missoula County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Old Town [Missoula County].
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Northwest Territories
- Please visit our profile page for the Northwest Territories community of Old Town.
- Ohio
- Huron County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Old Town [Huron County].
- Tuscarawas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Old Town [Tuscarawas County].
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Old Town [Douglas County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Old Town [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
- Williamson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Old Town [Williamson County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Clallam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Old Town [Clallam County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Old Town ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Old Town:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Coffee 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 Coffee County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Old Town could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |