Do you know of Spoon River ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Spoon River. 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 Spoon River.<1> We found mention of Spoon River as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fulton County, Illinois. It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2> From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1838 and closed in 1847. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spoon River ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Spoon River: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
More Orphans in Fulton 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 Fulton County. Footnotes ...
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