Do you know of Marcellus ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1893.

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 Marcellus ...

We found six communities that share the name Marcellus.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Marcellus.

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

• Communities Located In Kentucky ...
  • Garrard County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Marcellus [Garrard County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Michigan
    • Cass County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Marcellus [Cass County].
    • Macomb County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Marcellus [Macomb County].
  • New York
    • Onondaga County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Marcellus [Onondaga County].
  • Ohio
    • Mercer County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Marcellus [Mercer County].
  • Washington
    • Adams County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Marcellus [Adams County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Marcellus ...

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

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 Marcellus - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Edmonson 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 Edmonson County.