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Do you know of Galen ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Galen. 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 Galen.<1>

Our sources for Galen (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 Galen other than they indicate that Galen would be found somewhere in Johnson County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1904.

Communities Also Named Galen ...

We found four communities that share the name Galen.

Within Kentucky, the name Galen is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Mississippi
      • Sunflower County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Galen [Sunflower County].
    • Montana
      • Deer Lodge County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Galen [Deer Lodge County].
      • Meagher County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Galen [Meagher County].
    • Tennessee
      • Macon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Galen [Macon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Galen ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

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

More Orphans in  Johnson 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 Johnson County.

Bobbs 
Boons CampMeek
Buffalo CreekMendola Village
BuskirkMingo
 Myrtle
Coal 
 Nesbit
Daniels CreekNiles
  
FlaneryPainstville
FrewPaints
  
Gillem BranchRebecca
GustaveRiver
  
HammondSampson
HenriettaStambaugh
  
JarvyVan Lear Junction
Johns CreekVictoria
  
KenwoodWard City
 Win
Laurel Hill 

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.
<2>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Galen 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.
<3>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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