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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Savannah came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Savannah in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Savannah. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Savannah data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Savannah:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Savannah. See our Misc Page for Savannah for more information.

Footnotes ...

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

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