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Do you know of Rittenhouse ???

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

We found mention of Rittenhouse as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Morgan County, Kentucky.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1901 and closed  in 1902.

Communities Also Named Rittenhouse ...

We found three communities that share the name Rittenhouse.

Within Kentucky, the name Rittenhouse is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Maricopa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Rittenhouse [Maricopa County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Luzerne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rittenhouse [Luzerne County].
      • Philadelphia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rittenhouse [Philadelphia County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rittenhouse ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Morgan 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 Morgan County.

Alice 
AppleLamar
ArnettLemon
 Lick Branch
BangorLittle Sandy
BurgLoveland
Buskirk 
 Morgan
DemondMurphy
Demund 
DorsieNannie
  
ElamOmer
Elder 
 Paragon
Goodsey 
 Saltillo
Head Of PaintSteele
HenrySwetnam
  
InskoWells Hill
 Wells
JestonWilliams

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>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.
<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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