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Do you know of Rock House ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Rock House, so we are uncertain whether Rock House is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Rock House would be found somewhere in Jackson County, Alabama.

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 Rock House ...

We found four communities that share the name Rock House.

Within Alabama, the name Rock House is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rock House [Elko County].
    • Tennessee
      • Trousdale County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rock House [Trousdale County].
      • White 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 Tennessee community of Rock House [White County].
    • Virginia
      • Russell 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 Virginia community of Rock House [Russell County].

More Orphans in  Jackson County ...

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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 Jackson County.

AltoHitch
AveryHornet
 Houser
Bass Station 
BeechboroKosh
Berry Store 
BloivarMeadsville
BloomingtonMooney
Boxcove 
Brisco StoreNat
 Nila
Callahan 
CardenOlalee
Carpenter 
Central CrossroadsPark's Store
Chapin 
Coffey's StoreRedman
CollumRiver Hill
 Rocky Spring
Daugherty 
Doran's CoveSanta
 Smilax
Elora 
 Tip
Goose Pond Crossroads 
Gray's ChapelWallston
 Winninger

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Rock House 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.









 

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