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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Plum Hill came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Plum Hill 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 Plum Hill. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Plum Hill 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 Plum Hill:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Plum Hill 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 Plum Hill. See our Misc Page for Plum Hill 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/