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Welcome to Turkey Town ...So far, we found very little information about Turkey Town. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Turkey Town to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Turkey Town, please Contact Us. Turkey Town would have been located within present day Cherokee County<2>. The location of Turkey Town has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Turkey Town, you might consider that their post office opened in 1828. While the community is gone, the present day location for Turkey Town is 540 feet [165 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Turkey Town was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Turkey Town (for example, toward Cave Spring (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). The location where Turkey Town once stood is in the (256) & (938)<5> area codes. Communities near Turkey Town ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Turkey Town.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Turkey Town. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Turkey Town. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Turkey Town. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Turkey Town. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Turkey Town. See our Newspapers Page for Turkey Town. Adding Turkey Town to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Turkey Town in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Turkey Town was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Turkey Town in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). For more details, see References and Mentions for Turkey Town. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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