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Do you know of Tallahoma ???

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

Our sources for Tallahoma (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Tallahoma other than they indicate that Tallahoma would be found somewhere in Lucas County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1853 and closed  in 1875.

Communities Also Named Tallahoma ...

We found one communities that share the name Tallahoma.

Within Iowa, the name Tallahoma is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Tallahoma in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Mississippi
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Tallahoma [Jasper County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tallahoma ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

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

More Orphans in  Lucas 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 Lucas County.

BucyrusHenderson
  
Cedar GroveIrish Grove
Cleveland 
 Linn
Earle 
 Maceville
FreedomMilan
Freeland 
 Time
Greenville 
GunwaldWest Alexander
  

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>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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