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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Rockville came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Rockville in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rockville. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Rockville data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rockville:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Rockville was listed as Rockville Courthouse.

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Rockville was listed as Rockville Courthouse.

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

Shell Oil Road Map for Indiana (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found Rockville in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Rockville for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Rockville. See our Misc Page for Rockville for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Rockville:

Rockville was mentioned in the following schedule:

Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)

Footnotes ...

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

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