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Do you know of Blackberry ???

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

Our sources for Blackberry (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 Blackberry other than they indicate that Blackberry would be found somewhere in Kane County, Illinois.

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 Blackberry ...

We found five communities that share the name Blackberry.

Within Illinois, the name Blackberry is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Pike County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Blackberry [Pike County].
    • Minnesota
      • Itasca County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Blackberry [Itasca County].
    • Texas
      • Grimes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Blackberry [Grimes County].
    • Virginia
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Blackberry [Henry County].
      • Northumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Blackberry [Northumberland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blackberry ...

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

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Kane 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 Kane County.

AlexanderGrouse
Algonquin Shores 
 Hampshire Manor
BabsonHenpeck
Batavia Highlands 
Blackberry HeightsIvy Glen
Blackberry Station 
Briar HillLafox
Burnham MillLakewood Village
 Lenox
Century Oaks WestLittle Woods
Century OaksLodi Station
Cherry Hills 
College ParkMcIntosh
Country KnollsMeadowdale
CountrysideMoecherville
Cumberland GreenMontague Forest
  
DundeeNew Plato
Dunham Woods 
 Parkwood
Eagle HeightsPinelands
East AuroraPrestbury
East Batavia 
East BurlingtonSherwood on the Fox
East ElginSilver Glen
East PlatoSouth Aurora
Elgin JunctionSunset
  
Fox River JunctionWatch Factory
Fox River SwitchWest Aurora
 West Elgin
Garden QuarterWestaway
Geneva SwitchWildwood
GlengarryWinden Oak
Green Meadows 

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Blackberry could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.









 

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