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Do you know of Old Town ???

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

Our sources for Old Town (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Old Town other than they indicate that Old Town would be found somewhere in Jackson County, Indiana.

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 Old Town ...

We found 35 communities that share the name Old Town.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Old Town.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 33 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Indiana ...
    • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Old Town [Warren County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Conecuh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Old Town [Conecuh County].
      • Dallas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Old Town [Dallas County].
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Old Town [Fayette County].
    • Arkansas
      • Lafayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Old Town [Lafayette County].
      • Phillips County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Old Town [Phillips County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Old Town.
    • California
      • Kern County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Kern County].
      • Marin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Marin County].
      • San Diego County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [San Diego County].
      • Santa Barbara County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Santa Barbara County].
      • Ventura County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Old Town [Ventura County].
    • Florida
      • Dixie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Old Town [Dixie County].
      • Lafayette County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Old Town [Lafayette County].
    • Georgia
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Old Town [Jefferson County].
    • Iowa
      • Dickinson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Old Town [Dickinson County].
    • Maine
      • Penobscot County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Old Town [Penobscot County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Old Town [Baltimore City].
      • Kent County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Old Town [Kent County].
    • Missouri
      • Lafayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Old Town [Lafayette County].
      • Oregon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Old Town [Oregon County].
    • Montana
      • Missoula County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Old Town [Missoula County].
    • New Mexico
      • Bernalillo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Old Town [Bernalillo County].
      • Luna County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Old Town [Luna County].
    • New York
      • Richmond County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Old Town [Richmond County].
    • North Carolina
      • Brunswick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Old Town [Brunswick County].
      • Forsyth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Old Town [Forsyth County].
    • Northwest Territories
      • Please visit our profile page for the Northwest Territories community of Old Town.
    • Ohio
      • Huron County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Old Town [Huron County].
      • Tuscarawas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Old Town [Tuscarawas County].
    • Oregon
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Old Town [Douglas County].
    • South Carolina
      • Charleston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Old Town [Charleston County].
    • Tennessee
      • Williamson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Old Town [Williamson County].
    • Virginia
      • Grayson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Old Town [Grayson County].
    • Washington
      • Clallam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Old Town [Clallam County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Old Town ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

CourtlandMooney
  
EclipseShield's Mills
 Starve Hollow Lake
Freeport 
 Velonia
Goss' Mill 
 Waskom
LangdonWhite Creek
Lehigh SpurWoodstock
  

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Old Town could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.









 

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