Do you know of Coon Hollow ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Coon Hollow. 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 Coon Hollow.<1>
Our sources for Coon Hollow (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 Coon Hollow other than they indicate that Coon Hollow would be found somewhere in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Coon Hollow ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Coon Hollow:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Coon Hollow - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Nelson 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 Nelson County.
| Abbey Of Gethsemani | Hunter's Depot |
| Hurricane Hills | |
| Beam | |
| Beams | Laconton |
| Black | Lunar |
| Croakes | Nelson Furnace |
| Dacon | Rolling Fork |
| Deatesville | |
| Samuel's Depot | |
| Early Times | |
| Wickland |
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. |