Do you know of Rowland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rowland. 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 Rowland.
Our sources for Rowland (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 Rowland other than they indicate that Rowland would be found somewhere in Limestone County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1913.
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 Rowland ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Rowland.
Within Alabama, the name Rowland is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rowland [Los Angeles County].
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rowland [Lincoln County].
- McCracken 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 Kentucky community of Rowland [McCracken County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Hennepin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Rowland [Hennepin County].
- Missouri
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rowland [Cedar County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rowland [Elko County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Robeson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rowland [Robeson County].
- Ohio
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rowland [Morgan County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rowland.
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Rowland [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rowland [Pike County].
- South Carolina
- Clarendon County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Rowland [Clarendon County].
- Tennessee
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rowland [Warren County].
- Texas
- Montague County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rowland [Montague County].
- West Virginia
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rowland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rowland:
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 Rowland - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Limestone 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 Limestone 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Rowland 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/ |