Do you know of Cowan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cowan. 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 Cowan.
Our sources for Cowan (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 Cowan other than they indicate that Cowan would be found somewhere in Morgan 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 Cowan ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Cowan.
Within Georgia, the name Cowan is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cowan [Marion County].
- Indiana
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cowan [Delaware County].
- Kentucky
- Fleming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cowan [Fleming County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Cowan.
- Missouri
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cowan [Christian County].
- Montana
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cowan [Gallatin County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong 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 Pennsylvania community of Cowan [Armstrong County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cowan [Union County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Cowan.
- Tennessee
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cowan [Franklin County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cowan [Pulaski County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cowan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cowan:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cowan - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1895 (unknown title/publisher)
Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Morgan 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 Morgan County.
| Adsboro | Florence |
| Appalachee | |
| Austin | Harvey |
| Broughton | Mallory |
| Maple | |
| Cortelyou | |
| Ninnerville | |
| Drexel | Nolan |
| Ebenezer | Rehobothville |
| Enterprise | |
| Zachry |
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 Cowan 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. |