Do you know of Hooks Crossing ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hooks Crossing. 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 Hooks Crossing.
Our sources for Hooks Crossing (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 Hooks Crossing other than they indicate that Hooks Crossing would be found somewhere in Emanuel 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 Hooks Crossing ...
We found one communities that share the name Hooks Crossing.
Within Georgia, the name Hooks Crossing is unique.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Hooks Crossing in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Hooks Crossing [Rockingham County].
- New Hampshire
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hooks Crossing ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hooks Crossing:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hooks Crossing - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Emanuel 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 Emanuel County.