Do you know of Hermitage ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hermitage. 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 Hermitage.
Our sources for Hermitage (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Hermitage other than they indicate that Hermitage would be found somewhere in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
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 Hermitage ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Hermitage.
There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Hermitage.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hermitage [Pointe Coupee Parish].
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Bradley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hermitage [Bradley County].
- Pulaski 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 Arkansas community of Hermitage [Pulaski County].
- California
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hermitage [Mendocino County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hermitage [Floyd County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hermitage [Carroll County].
- Missouri
- Hickory County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hermitage [Hickory County].
- New York
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Hermitage.
- North Carolina
- Ashe 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 Hermitage [Ashe County].
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hermitage [Cumberland County].
- Pennsylvania
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hermitage [Mercer County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Hermitage.
- Tennessee
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hermitage [Davidson County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Hermitage [Weber County].
- Virginia
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hermitage ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hermitage:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hermitage - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in West Baton Rouge 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 West Baton Rouge Parish.
| Belle Vale | |
| Bruly Landing | Lobdell Junction |
| Home Plantation | Poplar Grove |
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 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 Hermitage 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. |