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Do you know of Wool ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wool. 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 Wool.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1892.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wool ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Pope 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 Pope County.

AzotusOrville
  
BayPaco
BayfieldPoco
Blanchard 
BookRock Quarry
Broad Oaks 
 Shandsville
ColoradoShaudsville
  
New BrownfieldWallersburg
 Walnut Shade

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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