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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Fort Garland came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Fort Garland in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Garland. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Fort Garland data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Garland:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Fort Garland is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Fort Garland. See our Misc Page for Fort Garland for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Fort Garland:

Fort Garland was mentioned in the following schedule:

Trailways Santa Fe Bus Time Table (July 1945)

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/