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Do you know of Bold Spring ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bold Spring. 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 Bold Spring.<1>

Our sources for Bold Spring (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bold Spring other than they indicate that Bold Spring would be found somewhere in Franklin County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1852 and closed  in 1904.

Communities Also Named Bold Spring ...

We found one communities that share the name Bold Spring.

Within Georgia, the name Bold Spring is unique.

Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Bold Spring in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Tennessee
      • Humphreys County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bold Spring [Humphreys County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bold Spring ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Franklin 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 Franklin County.

Adolphus 
AidHelp
AllandaleHenry
AquillaHudson
Avalon 
 Iron Stock
Bancroft 
BushvilleLattner Gap
  
CadizMackville
ChildsvilleMize
Crump 
 Payneville
Dobb's StorePlumb
Durant 
 Shannon's Mills
Eastanollee 
 Tabor
Flintsville 
 Vat
Garlandville 
GertrudeWest Bowersville
GoodwillWhittens Store

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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