Do you know of Alum Cave ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alum Cave. 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 Alum Cave.<1> Our sources for Alum Cave (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 Alum Cave other than they indicate that Alum Cave would be found somewhere in Sullivan County, Indiana. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1905. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alum Cave ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Alum Cave: 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 Alum Cave - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher) More Orphans in Sullivan 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 Sullivan County. Footnotes ...
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