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Do you know of Saint Lawrence ???

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

Our sources for Saint Lawrence (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 Saint Lawrence other than they indicate that Saint Lawrence would be found somewhere in Daviess County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1904.

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 Saint Lawrence ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Saint Lawrence.

Within Kentucky, the name Saint Lawrence is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, ten are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Marquette County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Lawrence [Marquette County].
    • Minnesota
      • Otter Tail County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saint Lawrence [Otter Tail County].
      • Scott County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saint Lawrence [Scott County].
    • New York
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Saint Lawrence [Jefferson County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Saint Lawrence.
    • North Carolina
      • Chatham County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Saint Lawrence [Chatham County].
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Lawrence.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Berks County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Lawrence [Berks County].
      • Cambria County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Lawrence [Cambria County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Saint Lawrence.
    • Quebec
      • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Saint Lawrence.
    • South Dakota
      • Hand County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Saint Lawrence [Hand County].
    • Texas
      • Glasscock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Saint Lawrence [Glasscock County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Saint Lawrence [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Lawrence ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in  Daviess 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 Daviess County.

Andersonville 
 Maple Mount
BrowningMattingly
  
CorenaNarrows Bridge
Crow - HickmanNarrows
Cruseton 
 O'Donnels
DarexOak Hill
DermotOwensboro East
DoyleOwensboro West
Dunbarton 
 Panther Creek
Elmer Smith StationPates
 Pleasant Ridge
GreenbriarPowers Station
Grissom's LandingPowers
  
HerrwoodShorts
 Sorghotown
JollySteelton
  
LaffoonWhalen
Lewis 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Saint Lawrence 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.
<2>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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