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Do you know of Routhwell ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Routhwell. 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 Routhwell.

We found mention of Routhwell as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chatham County, Georgia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1887.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Routhwell ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Cities, Towns and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962
Written by: Hemperly, Marion R.
Published by the Southern Historical Press, 1980
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Chatham 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 Chatham County.

Alnwick 
AndersonMontezuma
Ardsley Park 
Argyle IslandNorth Savannah
Augustine 
AvalonOglethorpe Park
 Oglethorpe
Bacon Park 
BarnardParadise Park
Battery Point 
BingvilleReber
Burnside IslandRose Dhu
  
ColerainSavannah Junction
Country SideShannons Point
Crest Hill GardensSilverberg
 Skidaway
DeptfordSkyland Terrace
DominitzSomerset Park
 South Pooler
EanesSouthover Junction
East SavannahSouthside
Edgewater Park 
 Tybee
Halycon Bluff 
Hutchinson IslandWatlee
 West Savannah
Laroche ParkWright Square
Lorwood 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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