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Do you know of Wesley ???

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

Our sources for Wesley (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Wesley other than they indicate that Wesley would be found somewhere in Henry 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 Wesley ...

We found 25 communities that share the name Wesley.

Within Alabama, the name Wesley is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wesley [Madison County].
    • Georgia
      • Emanuel County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wesley [Emanuel County].
      • Oconee 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 Georgia community of Wesley [Oconee County].
      • Taylor County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wesley [Taylor County].
    • Illinois
      • Tazewell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wesley [Tazewell County].
    • Indiana
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Wesley [Montgomery County].
    • Iowa
      • Kossuth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wesley [Kossuth County].
    • Kansas
      • Dickinson 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 Kansas community of Wesley [Dickinson County].
    • Kentucky
      • 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 Kentucky community of Wesley [Russell County].
    • Maine
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Wesley [Washington County].
    • Maryland
      • Dorchester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Wesley [Dorchester County].
      • Worcester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Wesley [Worcester County].
    • Michigan
      • Mason 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 Michigan community of Wesley [Mason County].
    • Mississippi
      • Monroe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Wesley [Monroe County].
    • New York
      • Cattaraugus County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wesley [Cattaraugus County].
    • Ohio
      • Muskingum County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wesley [Muskingum County].
      • Perry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wesley [Perry County].
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wesley [Washington County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Atoka County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Wesley [Atoka County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wesley.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Venango County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wesley [Venango County].
    • South Dakota
      • Faulk 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 South Dakota community of Wesley [Faulk County].
    • Tennessee
      • Claiborne 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 Wesley [Claiborne County].
    • Texas
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wesley [Washington County].
    • West Virginia
      • Wood County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wesley [Wood County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wesley ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Henry 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 Henry County.

AshburyHardwicksburg
AshfordHilliardsville
  
BakerKinsey
Brackin 
 Levin
CawthornLynnville
Choctawhatchee 
ColumbiaMcRae
Cottonwood 
CowartsOaky Grove
CrosbyOates
Cureton's Bridge 
 Pansey
DewitPleasant Plains
Doswell 
DothenSmithville
Double Bridges 
 Talley
Gordon 
GracevilleWeston
Grafton 
GrangerZoe
 Zornville
Haleburgh 

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 Wesley 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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