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Do you know of Aventon ???

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

Our sources for Aventon (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 Aventon other than they indicate that Aventon would be found somewhere in Dearborn County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1898.

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 Aventon ...

We found one communities that share the name Aventon.

Within Indiana, the name Aventon is unique.

Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named Aventon in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Nash County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Aventon [Nash County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Aventon ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Dearborn 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 Dearborn County.

Allen's Ferry 
 Kelso
Cold SpringKennedy
Crozier 
 Lake Dilldear
DearbornLongnecker
  
East LawrenceburgNebo
 Newton Junction
Guionsville 
 Vogel
Hardentown 
HolmanWirt

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024