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Do you know of Shanty Town ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Shanty Town was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Shanty Town would be found somewhere in Dade County, Georgia.

Communities Also Named Shanty Town ...

We found three communities that share the name Shanty Town.

Within Georgia, the name Shanty Town is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Allegany County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Shanty Town [Allegany County].
    • Minnesota
      • Olmsted County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Shanty Town [Olmsted County].
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Shanty Town [Elko County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shanty Town ...

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

Placenames of Georgia
Written by: Goff, John Hedges
Published by the University of Georgia Press, 2007
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Dade 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 Dade County.

Browns 
 New Home
Castle Rock 
 Russell
Dademont 
DillonSmith
 Stephensville
Magby GapSulphur Springs

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>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.









 

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