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Do you know of Greenvale ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Greenvale. 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 Greenvale. Our sources for Greenvale (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 Greenvale other than they indicate that Greenvale would be found somewhere in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1847 and closed in 1900. 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 Greenvale ...We found eight communities that share the name Greenvale. Within Illinois, the name Greenvale is unique. Beyond Illinois, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, six are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Greenvale ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Greenvale: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Greenvale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher) More Orphans in Jo Daviess 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 Jo Daviess County. Footnotes ...
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