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Do you know of Raleigh ???

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

Our sources for Raleigh (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Raleigh other than they indicate that Raleigh would be found somewhere in Pickens County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1906.

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 Raleigh ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Raleigh.

Within Alabama, the name Raleigh is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Levy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Raleigh [Levy County].
    • Georgia
      • Meriwether County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Raleigh [Meriwether County].
    • Illinois
      • Saline County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Raleigh [Saline County].
    • Indiana
      • Rush County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Raleigh [Rush County].
    • Iowa
      • Emmet County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Raleigh [Emmet County].
    • Kentucky
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Raleigh [Union County].
    • Mississippi
      • Smith County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Raleigh [Smith County].
    • New Jersey
      • Camden 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 New Jersey community of Raleigh [Camden County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Raleigh.
    • North Carolina
      • Wake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Raleigh [Wake County].
    • North Dakota
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Raleigh [Grant County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Raleigh.
    • Tennessee
      • Shelby County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Raleigh [Shelby County].
    • Texas
      • Navarro County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Raleigh [Navarro County].
    • West Virginia
      • Raleigh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Raleigh [Raleigh County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Raleigh ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Raleigh - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

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.

AustinKoon
  
BasticMantua
BeardMarquis
BethanyMayfield
BillheadMcBee
ByarsMcCrary
  
DelmavilleNeal's Mill
Durrow 
 Palm
EhrenPlott
EthelvilleProvidence
Ezellville 
 Sharp
FranconiaSpeeds Water Mill
 Stephens Mill
GoosepondStone
  
HenryTemple
  
JettYorkville
  

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 Raleigh 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/









 

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