Do you know of Pleasant Shade ???

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

Our sources for Pleasant Shade (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 Pleasant Shade other than they indicate that Pleasant Shade would be found somewhere in Perry County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1847 and closed  in 1869.

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 Pleasant Shade ...

We found two communities that share the name Pleasant Shade.

Within Illinois, the name Pleasant Shade is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Tennessee
    • Smith County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pleasant Shade [Smith County].
  • Virginia
    • Greensville County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pleasant Shade [Greensville County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pleasant Shade ...

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

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

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

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Perry County ...

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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 Perry County.