Do you know of Amesville ???

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

We found mention of Amesville as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

Communities Also Named Amesville ...

We found four communities that share the name Amesville.

Within Louisiana, the name Amesville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Litchfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Amesville [Litchfield County].
- Montana
  - Beaverhead 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 Amesville [Beaverhead County].
- Ohio
  - Athens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amesville [Athens County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Clearfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Amesville [Clearfield County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Amesville ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Orleans Parish ...

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 Orleans Parish.

Abattoir	French Quarter

Broadmoor	Lafayette Square
Bywaters	Lake Shore
	Lee
Custom House
Cut Off	Micheaud
	Morgan's Landing
Edge Lake
Elysian Fields Station	Point aux Herbes
	Ponchartrain Junction
Fort Macomb
Fort Pike	Recovery

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Amesville 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 parish. 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.