Do you know of Blowing Cave ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blowing Cave. 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 Blowing Cave.
Our sources for Blowing Cave (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 Blowing Cave other than they indicate that Blowing Cave would be found somewhere in Decatur County, Georgia.
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 Blowing Cave ...
We found one communities that share the name Blowing Cave.
Within Georgia, the name Blowing Cave is unique.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Blowing Cave in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Independence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Blowing Cave [Independence County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blowing Cave ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blowing Cave:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Blowing Cave - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1855 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Decatur County ...
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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 Decatur County.