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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Rollestown. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Rollestown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Rollestown, please Contact Us.

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Rollestown (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Rollestown. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Rollestown is historic, it would have been located within present day Putnam County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Putnam County: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Flagler, Marion, Saint Johns & Volusia.

Below are the counties that are near Rollestown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rollestown:

  • Putnam County     (The home county of Rollestown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • East Palatka
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • San Mateo
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Palatka
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Buffalo Bluff
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Buffalo Bluff is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Bluff
    • Peniel
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Peniel is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peniel
    • Satsuma
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Federal Point
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Federal Point is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Federal Point
    • Bostwick
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Pomona Park
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Nashua
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Nashua is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashua
    • Lake Como
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Welaka
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Alachua County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • Melrose
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Hawthorne
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Clay County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • Green Cove Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Penney Farms
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake Geneva
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Keystone Heights
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Flagler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • Marineland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Palm Coast
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Bunnell
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Beverly Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Beverly Beach is located in Flagler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 434 people
    • Korona
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Korona is located in Flagler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Korona
    • Flagler Beach
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Marion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • Salt Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Kerr City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Kerr City is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerr City
    • Orange Springs
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Fort McCoy
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Saint Johns County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • Hastings
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Armstrong
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Armstrong is located in Saint Johns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
    • Tocoi
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Tocoi is located in Saint Johns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tocoi
    • Elkton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Augustine Shores
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Augustine Shores is located in Saint Johns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Augustine Shores
    • Crescent Beach
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Augustine South
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Augustine South is located in Saint Johns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Augustine South
    • Butler Beach
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Butler Beach is located in Saint Johns County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler Beach
    • Saint Augustine Beach
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Augustine
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Vilano Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Volusia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.
    • Seville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Pierson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Emporia
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Emporia is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emporia

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rollestown, see our County-by-County Page for Rollestown.

Cemeteries Near Rollestown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rollestown.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Rollestown - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rollestown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.

  • San Mateo Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • West View Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Yelvington Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Palatka Memorial Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Peniel Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Putnam County Poor Farm Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Satsuma Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Resthaven Cemetery & Memorial Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Etonia Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (74 more) ...
    • Pomona - Lake Como Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Mei-Wun Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Mary Elizabeth Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

While we didn't find Rollestown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rollestown.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Rollestown, with the one closest to Rollestown listed first.

  • East Palatka
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • San Mateo
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Lundy
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lundy is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
  • Orange Mills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Orange Mills is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange Mills
  • Palatka
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Yelvington
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Yelvington is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yelvington
  • Peniel
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Peniel is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peniel
  • Buffalo Bluff
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Buffalo Bluff is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Bluff
  • Satsuma
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Francis
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Francis is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Francis
  • Sisco
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Sisco is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisco
  • Teasdale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Teasdale is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teasdale
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Federal Point
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Federal Point is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Federal Point
    • Bridgeport
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Bridgeport is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
    • Bostwick
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rollestown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rollestown.

Newspapers Published in Rollestown ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rollestown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rollestown, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rollestown.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Rollestown:

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Rollestown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rollestown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.